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Show I : Man Seen Adrift On . Ice Floe In Arctic m Believed He May Have Been Member B of Stefanson's Canadian M Expedition H Nome, Alaska, April 13. Natives H hunting seals last winter aro reported m In mall advices received from Icy H I Capo, on tho Arctic coast near Inti- H tudo 70, to lmvo seen a white man B marooned on an Ico float which was H drifting In a southwesterly direction H toward Wrangcll Island. Whethor m tho man was a member of Vllhjalmur H Stofnnson's Canadian Arctic oxpodl- B tlon.or was u survivor of tho wrecked B whaling schoonor Now Jersey tho na- H tlves wcro unablu to dotermlno. Hunters hurried out to try to res-ctto res-ctto tho maroOncd man, but boforo thoy reached tho lend separating tho floo from tho shoro Ice, a strong off Bhoro wind hod sprung up, carrying tho Ico fnr to sea. Tho man was walking slowly In tho samo direction as tho moving Ico. Tho io was moving steadily south west and unless tho, wind shifted must havo touched Wrangcll Island, where food cutthes wcro loft lust summer by tho party which rescued tho survivors sur-vivors from tho wrecked Stcfansson exploring ship Knrluk. Tho genernl hcllof hero and among tho natives at Icy Capo Is that tho man was a member' ottho.' Stcfansson party of threo'nvho started north over tho Ico from Martin point, west of tho Mackenzie- river, April 7, 1914. With Stefanssotf 5t! thatUino were Olo Anderson" and Storkcrstorkcrson Nothing lias been heard from Vfl-hjalmur Vfl-hjalmur Stcfansson and 'his thrco companions slnco thoy loft Martin point a year ago to explore tho unknown un-known Arctic regions north of Alaska. Alas-ka. , Stcfanson oxpectod to travel ? 150 miles north on tho Ico, by which time ho bollevcd tho eastward drift wpuld bring him in touch with Dnnks(and, but tho early spring resulted In for- ty to fifty miles of open water along tho eoast of Bankslnnd at tho timo Stcfansson had calculated ho would land. S"tofaiisson was well equipped with dogs, food and other supplies and had a sled that could bo used as a boat. m ,' |
