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Show CAUGHT IN THE FLOES. Explorer Steffanson Will Remain in Frozen North Some Time. San Francisco. Explorer V. Steffanson, Stef-fanson, connected with the American Museum of Natural History, has been caught in the ice floes off Flaxman island and will have to remain some time in-the frozen north. This information infor-mation was received Wednesday in a message from Dawson, together with the news that the whaling schooner Rosie H. is also fast in the ice. After several months of hardship, Steffanson is reported to have started In a small craft to obtain supplies from the whaling fleet at Point Barrow. Bar-row. The whalers failed to put in an appearance and Steffanson started in search of them. When forty miles off Flaxman island his sloop was imprisoned impris-oned in the ice. He may have to abandon his vessel and make his way to some native settlement. It was near Flaxman island that the bark Duchess of Bedford, conveying the Mikkelson-Leffingwell expedition, was wrecked. |