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Show I H y ARRANGING EXPEDITION BBJ Stefanison to Start on Second Trip I H To Far North May 1 I Bm on May 1 ' H san Francisco, Feb. 18. The com- Bb pletlon hero yesterday of arrange- i B raents for tho purcHaso of tho Kar- I BB ink, a 320 ton steam whaler, dlsclos- ' B d plans of Vllbjelmar Stofansson, BB discoverer of blondo Eskimos, for a BBJ second expedition to tho far north. BH Ho w111 8nl1 from San FranclBC0 on BB May B Tho definite objective of t:io expo- BJ dltlon will bo the unoxplprcd portion Bb of tho Arctic circle north of Banks I BBJ Land. Nearly a Bcoro of scientists 1 BBB will accompany Stofansson and tho B vessel will bo equipped for a thrco B years voyage. Tho data which will BB bo complied will bo given to tho Mil- BBB seum of natural history of Now York , BB and tho Amorlcan Geographical socl- BB ty. ' BB The Karluk will proceed first to I Bj Land, and will steam thonco to tho BB boundary of Princo Patrick Island. BBo white man ever has go no beyond i B0Ultudo 75 north In this region. Tho BBjicCluro expedition reached Mercy BBJ Bay In 1851, while looking for tho BK northwest passago, but tho vessel BB was abandonod and tho party return- Be ed ovorland. Stofansson hopes to dls- Bf cover a largo quantity" by tho Mc- BJ Cluro ship Investigator. Bf Tho cj.plorcr was told of tho land B which ho hopes to discover by tho Q blonde Eskimos, at Coronation gulf, BL. Prlnco Albert Land. Ho will search R for sovcral Islauds sul'l to ntvo been K inhabited by a strango raco of na- E B tlvea. |