| Show PEARY MAN VISITS PRICE oar our reader readers receive information direct prom from expedition to arctic regions STORY OF GEORGE BORUP says trip was not really a pleasure to himself and corn com any dangers too great george borup a young man of 24 who la Is here in arrice topping at the dalhia botel pary in hid his northern trip tri the lasts a vill the pro pre if to edins 4 ira year alt T barll p came here witha with a party of civil engineers engin eerA nho ho a are re making ranking some ideological geological buivens in this an aneada jado jada ning 4 0 when the hews news ahalt discovered that euch stich a person had come to our town it made iti it way to his stopping place and secured a limited statement from him regarding tb discoveries disco venea made lie ays says that the ordinal rt Inal party wea was composed wate ot of 23 white men that in order to begin the voyage properly it waa was necessary for them hem as they found their way north to take the advice of people they found un their their way and as they proceeded ded they employed 62 men and women of that country to aid them that the eskimo is certainly skilled in making hb his way in the barren frozen froze n lands of the north he lie says that the people of the north know nothing of money and have noth in the nature of a government every man is his own protector or cabig big chief that their religion consists in the worship I 1 of satan in they offer him hun prayers thet that ha will not bother them that the people are particularly truthful and trustworthy that in the matter of the latter statement the eskimos can give the whites pointers winter he lie says that the trip waa was nol not really a pleasure since the dangers are many and imminent imi nent no mao man la 14 nt at aar any time safe in this country aror the he sliding Ii dini glacier glaciers the I 1 ahe darce storm snow and that it ili fi impossible to detect at all timea the places in the ice which will support the weight of a man and that the pedestrian may make one step more and be lost in the frozen sea food Is I 1 ono of the great questions which enters into an expedition of this nature it being impossible to take enough food on the cledes therefore it la to necessary to secure food by slaying animals found in these re region giona the food foud taken with them was a mixture of meats and a bread called hardtack of this an sin allowance is made for each man inc including luning a portion of tea the animals found which fur furnished nishel the greater amusement Is known as the walrus these animals are very large weighing upward of two taro tons and have large bony hians with extract ly lyshall small brain cells which makes it difficult to strike them where I 1 it will disable them these animals while they furnish amusement for the hunt er are very dangerous at times the large horns protruding fron the hes he I 1 are used as a means of defense the walrus would make a lunge for the party at time and pierce the boats in general places and anti at other times would assail the party by mounting 1 the gunval of the whale boat with the fore part of the body or head and try to tip the boat over should the animal be able to overturn the boat it i would be a lost cause on the part of i the man it would be impossible for a man to make any headway in the i cold water among the floating chunka chunks of ice another animal possibly more numer i ous and accessible to the hunter is the arctic hare or rabbit they are very large weighing about ten pounds when full grown many of these were used ifor for food 61 malth with 16 rifle bullets tho the record there is a species 0 of lf bl bird art very nu at places vhf which I 1 ah are easily caught and anti wied for food the reindeer rein deer musk oxen and wolves are the only animals they found in the far north these first two are used for food the musk ox ie Is said to give milk but the milk can be gotten only after the animal is disabled the ile earth ia Is not aa ays coverd with enow snow dung duang the stay of two summers and ono one winter in the 82 degree and 27 minute mark the earth was uncovered by the sun melting the snow and ice away and that grass appeared as high as an 18 inches and a fine quality of mosa was exposed of course tats grass and moss appeared at protected spots in ravines oron the seurh side of hills dogs are used as draft animals and anti the party started with doge a p ecles 1 of polo wolf the dogs aide AA from being used as draft animals alo ai valuable in discovering seat seal hole holes aru ox the awu locate the holes the hunter use uses hin harpoon and attack the xeal 1 which after being killed Is I 1 used for food for the doe dv and is eaten by the people of that land when Tio you u run out of rub gub you eat dog alright if theres enough of it and it tastes like mutton the peculiarity of the dog of the north iw thai that it will not travel in bad storm when a fiert fierce e wind comes up all 11 stop and remain still until the storm subsides it matters not what length the storm may continue mr air barup baya says the whole earth in lin the northis north is gradually rising ria itie he lie went on to to eay any that while it was coming up it was not doing so with the rapidity which could be seen with the tho eye the discovery was made from standpoints stand points he lie ay that tre distance being so great over three t busand miles from froma a regular market orsea or aea port anat the country will nver he inhabited except that valuable mineral minerals be discovered I 1 |
