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Show Capt Bernard Working Mis Way . Tkoiigfi Arctic VANCOUVER, B. C. Oct. 17 Captain Cap-tain Joe Bernard, a daring trader of Nome, Alaska, is spending about five years working his way eastward in his boat, the Teddy Bear, from the Bering Sea through the northeast passage to the Atlantic Ocean. Reports came from Alaska some lime ago that Bernard was endeavoring endeavor-ing to navigate the northeast passage, pas-sage, but no details were given. Vil-hjalmur Vil-hjalmur Stcfansson, the Canadian Arctic Arc-tic explorer, on his return here recently re-cently from the north, confirmed the reports and said he thought Bernard would reach tho Atlantic safely, as he was a good navigator and was traveling travel-ing In fairly well known waters. Bernard has been out of touch with civilization for about two years and, according to Stefansson, probably will not appear in the Atlantic until 1921. The trnder left Alaska's far northern outposts in 191G and planned to make the trip in five years. If Bernard succeeds, he will bo one of the very few pedple who have over negotiated the northeast passage. The latest to come through the icy channel chan-nel was Roald Amundsen, who negotiated nego-tiated the passage iu 190G. Stefansson Stefans-son planned to make the trip but Che failure of a boat to meet him after he had completed the worst part of the trip on foot caused him to change his plans. Bernard worked along the northern Canadian coast with some of Stefans-son's Stefans-son's party in 191G., the explorer said. He soon left the explorers, however, and pressed on into the barren white waters to the cast. The next heard from him may be when ho turns up I at some far northern Atlantic port, t |