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Show H JL. I t Ul AMUNDSEN HAS ENCOUNTER WITH A BIG POLAR BEAR I I Discoverer of South Pole Get- I I ting Ready for Dash to I Top of the World I 'PLANS TO LOSE SELF I IN NORTH FOR YEARS Norwegian First to Circum- I navigate Globe Through t Arctic Waters NOME, Alaska, July 28. Roald H j Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, ar- H rived In Nome tonight from tho Arc- H tic Amundsen arrived hero on a tug ' and said h" left his vessel, the Maude, at Sledge Island, not far from here. I where for the last ten days h has I been storm bound. Ho reported all well w ith his expedition. On his arrival here Amundsen was ; I taken to a hotel where several him- H I dred peopio gathered to greet him. jf He said tonight was tho first time in two years he had been In a placo where he could clean up." ENCOUNTER WITH BEAR. Amundsen told of an encounter with a polar bear last winter in which his i elnthinsf was torn from his body, one jf ; of his arms broken and his back and legs severely lacerated. He Is still suffering from the effects of the en- H Amundsen has gone to Nome, It Is ! thought to outfit for an attemut to H reach the North pole. According to H ' Chrlstiania dispatches in April the H ' explorer hopes to lock his boat in the H ice off eastern Siberia and drift across H or near the pole. He plans to be gone) H five H Ever slnre Amundsen sailed north H from Norway In 1918 he has been In H the Arctic. For 19 months he was H not heard from. First word from him H came in April. 1920, w'hen members H of his crew arrived at Anadir, Siberia, H across the Bering sea from Nome, and H reported they had come overland from H ! the Arctic where the MauJo was wait- H ing for the ice to break so she could H sail south to Nome. H GETS FIRST RONORS. I Amundsen's arrival at Nome, It Is H ' said, gives him claim to first circum- H navigation of th- globf through the B u rs between the Arctic Ice pack HBVH land the northern edges of Europe and America. The first leg of the jour- ney was completed in 1916 when h: H : discovered the northwest passage from H the Atlantic to the Pacific arouii'l j North America The second leg hao H just been completed by his journey H from the Atlantic to the Pacific H j around Europe and Asia. J If Amundsen reaches the North J pole he will have touched both ends of the globe, for he is credited with I the discovery' of the South pole, in H I going north he hopes to confirm or refute the claims of the- late Rear H Admiral Robert E. Peary to discov- 1 ery of the northern tip of tho world. H |