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Show iU tv miins ta shown onh,,fap. fhtjean The ry Intrit mggoatlon aa 1 1 mean of reaching the North pole li 10 tiee the very barrier that baa hitherto hith-erto blocked the way of gmbltloua nav-1 Igatori. The auggeatlon la the nralnwork of Frenchman, founded on the advice ad-vice of Pr. Namen, the famoua Norwegian Nor-wegian explorer. "Take a ticket of Ice In the big train of lco" and drift. It 11 not a chance where luck muy decide, de-cide, ItuC Ja baerf ou knowledao of An tic Ocean curronia that aro known to rroaa the polo from Iho rnml of Slliarla to finally waali the ahum of Oreenland. M. Charloi Ilenard, a French naval officer, haa attracted the acluntlllo eur of the world by thli auigeatlon and the proof! he often to imitiln hla the-orlei. the-orlei. Tim and time attain daring men have attempted to force their hi pi through the muuntalnoui Ice packa that bar their progron further north. Not ao with IlcDarcl. lie would nae the Ire. He feela certain that the drifting will do the reit, for haa not Siberian mud been found on the roaat of Oreenland, auatalnlng hla claim that glaclcri from the Human ihoro have rro!ied the "open polar aca" and been thrown by the ocean'a cur rent! on the ihorei of "the big rontl-oent rontl-oent of the north, but little known, for vait portion! uf flrocnland are (till an unexplored region. Thli li not tbo only proof of the courio of thl! Artie drift, for there li the Itory of the Ill-fated J.nello that wil abandoned by Explorer lie Long off llrnnutt lilandi, illunted north of the Siberian northern roaat, and which, after yeara In the Ire, wai thrown upon the const of Dreenland. It la the Jeanotto that haa been advanced ad-vanced to prove two thlnga one, that them munt be an open are, elie ih would have been beached eliewhere, and the other that ihe current muat practically be contlnuoui In a given direction, that li, from Siberia toward Oreenland. Thore have been hundredi of Ihou-inndi Ihou-inndi of dollara apent on Iheie dahei for tbo polo and a big lum li ako for Hill unique iibcmo. Androe Irloil to roich the polo In a balloon iJil never been heard of. Namen. itrurted an Ice brotikor and tried 10 bull In. Peary leu hla ahlp an4 with lied! and doga tried to reach the coveted apol. All to no purpoHa but nil I acting ai a ipur for otiiet! to make Ihe attempt. No onehamor thought of the Idea, or, probably a fairer way of putting It. haa everub-llcly everub-llcly presented the Idea of conquering ice by Ice. It will be a trip croawa with peril!, for It li the purpom to force the ihlp Into the Ice with ill t ittendlng dangera of having the e-lol e-lol cruhed and being left to freee to death. There la one precaution taken to guard agalnit thli mUhapIn that two ahlpi arc to enter the park together, anil, while at a long balance ba-lance apart, to be held In communication communica-tion one with the other by wlrclng telegraphy. The explorer! expect tiat It will take from throe to flu vein to drift acroia the pole yearn of x-treme x-treme hardahlp, with all the attenJlnt eufTorliig that the mint Interne cold ran lmpone, inch a cold that no we except men who have made voiiiog to the north can undentand, bettnjil-intmt bettnjil-intmt beyond human endurance. It ! of unuitral Interest at thli line alHii berauao Commander Peary, the American, li about to undertaki in-other in-other trip to the north. Will the Amorlran or Frenchman rearh the goal first T Will both fallt Will the) , ever come hack? . Such quostloui mny be fairly put 1 when an Arctic explorer starts on LU voyage to the regions of the midnight j sun. . The Ilenard expedition will have ' rival In the fluid in tbo shape of tha I Germnn south polar ship Gauss, I which baa boon retitted for a Canadian expedition, and tho I'c.iry expedition. 1 Iloth thusv cxpeilltlona are mora on I the lines of former parties and rely I on the superiority of their outfit! and g.xid luck for their success. Part of M. llenard'a speech, translated trans-lated la aa follows: "The only meana of cruising thl great polar baaln conalsti In making again the voyage of the Fram of Nan sen, but a little more to the north, and to lake, aa Nanaen aald, 'a ticket of Ice In the big train of Ice.' In fact. It la necessary to remember that the first Idea or the crossing of tha great arctic current originated In thl discovery of driftwood and Siberian mud on the eastorn and eouthero coasta of Greenland, and also In tha alghting at Cape Farewell of the wreck of the Jeannette, which wa abandoned by her craw to tha north of Bennett Island. "So It la necessary In thrt case la start from a Norwegian port, Tron aoe or Vardoe, to croia the aoulhern part of the Barren Sea, to touch al Kerabova to lake on board an equip, ment of Eiklmo doga, and to iteam up between the concrete Ice and the land, up the Yalmal Penlnaula. calling at Fort Dickson to coal from a able that ahould be apeclally chartered ta crolie at tha end of the aummer along tha coast of the Taimyr peninsula reaching In autumn tha laland of New Siberia, and rush for a point altuated on the Uilth degree of longitude eaat regardless of cost, and even at tht price of wintering In one of the I.llak oft Islands. When at that point thl ablpa of an expedition have but to lei themselves drift with the concrett Ice, and If they follow a route sensibly sensi-bly parallel to that of tha Fram, they will cross the Arctic maritime basin on lines quite different from those of that ablp, and will Incontcstably croii In the very Immediate neighborhood of the North pole, following, In fact, the route which the wreck of tin Jeannette baa moat probably taken." |