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Show AMUMDSEN'S STORY OF DASHJO POLE INTREPID EXPLORER PLANTS FLAQ OF NORWAY ANO STAYS THREE DAYS AT SOUTH POLE. Little Party of Determined Men Fact Untold Hardship and Peril In Successful Suc-cessful Effort to Reach Southernmost Southern-most Point of World. Ilobnrl, Til mini N hi -Captain llriold AmilllillO'll. the l-Vpbirer Inrreclll'd wllh the dlHiiivery of Hie roii'b pnc, haa lHr-ueikii fctiitc tut-i.t In wbb h he declatea thai ho and bin party reach ecl the Bouth pnle on la-icmber II. It'll, and that the party rpeiit three da lit Ihe pole, vtlceru the llatr of Norany waR planted Captain Amiiiidhen eaya the po'e In lluated on n viint plateau, which tretche away In either dlnctton for mllce and mllea. The explorer whom, tnime will go down through the ceiiturlea to come for hla coiiiilhutlon lo the world greateHt iIIbc overlee. haa given the tory of hla Journey lo tho world In hla ctiaracterlntlc altnplc mid una aunilng way, and Unit alory m-euia to have been generally accepted the unadulterated truth. The laat atugea of the Journey Beelll lo hnvn been Hie nicmt diffic ult, barring the lunt illl). for the oplnr era. Tho real climb for Ihe pnle began be-gan on K'ebruary 10, lull, when the party begun to work Ita wuy auuth I'Btabllicbliig food dcpola on the way Kor four iiioiitbN from April 22 the party did not eco the aim, but thta winter aeaaon acenta tint lo have cauaed any great hardahlp, ex ept lo the doga. while Ihe time prolll ably api ni In mine uxionlichlng ni"t-eiroloKlcul ni"t-eiroloKlcul oluiervatloiiB. Ttiere wa very Utile aniiw, and there waa open water by the camp of the exploring party Ihioiigboul Ihe winter. A atari waa made from lb winter home on Heplember H. but encounter lug uovcro wenther, the thermometer bowing Til degreea below tern, Cup tain Amundiien ordered a return lo their wittier hut to wait for eprlng wenther. which did not come until the middle of October On October I'", live men of Ihn par ty Kliitii'd on thn Dual clinch for Ihe pole, having four aleduea. fitly two doga and pruvlalona for four month". Tho trip mimt Indeed have been a trying one, even fur men uaed to such hardahlpa. Cachea of food were made at different point along the route tuken. In be ued on the return Jour-ney, Jour-ney, Is caa the eauiloreri should ver return. Dver mountain and glacier, gcroaa Ice covered atretchea of water, where the Ire creaked and groaned and threatened to at any moment engulf the entire party, through valleya and acroea plalna. the Intrepid explorers pulleiitly plodded, until on December S a camp waa ealabllnhed at the point furlheat icnnlh vlalted by l.leutenunt Hhackellnn I'roin there on lo Ihe pole the talk aeema lo have been com-paiiitlvely com-paiiitlvely eaay, being moBlly a down hill pull for Hie dog leuma. On IN-cember 14 al :i p. m. they halted, hiivlng by the reckoning made, arrived at the goal for which many brave and haicly explorera had aearcbed In vain. Then, iicrotdlug 13 Captain Ainund sen, all of the parly gathered ainund the colors -a beautiful silk flag - u 1 1 hands taking hold of It and plaining It. Three dnya were spent In that vl clnlty, and numerous observailous were luken and reckoning made, the explorera having thoroughly mil Idled themselves that the south pole had ut laat been visited by man. tn m-ceuiber 17 lliere was faideneil to the ground a Utile lent which had been taken along. Norweglim flag aud thn rVum peiidiint on the top of II Thn Norwcglnn home al tne south pole waa christened 'Tolhelm " Then begun the return trio on thn l"lh. and the reiurn aeema lo hnve been much easier than when the men mcio aearchtng for tho pote. The Kram. conveying the victorious explorera, left tho May of Whales on Junuary :'-u. and afier a long voyugc against ccmlrury wind, arrived at llobnrt. u , r Hollas ii .iiii4I'i"''i,,'MI'' !-"' I CAPTAIN M. F. SCOTT. CAPTAIN KOALD AMVNDSEN. (Co.tri ller.l.l Hreiltilli atcl l ime of the magnetic! pole llttly set of compI'Mc polnr musnati ob servatlnus ever taken. i Amundsen was born nt HnficVirg Norway, and In his childhood, mveil with hla paieiits lo ChrlsiliinlB III psreuts desiin-cl him for nievclno. For one year he was a nncllrl stu-dent, stu-dent, but at lit unit her deiuh h"n lie was I'l years old, be gavn 0 the ititendi-d career mid went to sei For ,i number of yeurs lie crulsc-c a the norili as a whulc-r unci aeuler ot Nor wegluii Vessels. t Amundsen had hla (list liiftcif el plorutloii when In IH'.i7 he wot as Hi t officer with lite llelglc .a tier Inch' llctglan polar expedlin From what he learned of thn workjud ad venture of exploring on this if and from thn second Norwegian cr ei ledliion of IK'.ik, he became nUd wllh arctic amblllona of hla own. II irmed the project not of attaining ,t geo graphic pole nought by ao ngirr, bill of trying the long neglected is tliwesl piiMiige ami appruautalng andfalylug while on hla say Ihe ' Mil known magnetic sde. It look Amundsen aevertl yari to prepare himself for hi trip. For two yeaiw he studied, Ural In IhBbnrg un der Neumayer, authority in nagnet-Ism, nagnet-Ism, In Herlln under Hctmldt, and nnully at Wllhelmaliufrn iinorr Uorgen III t tin meteorological slattern. Ill ineiitnl prnpurnilon over, heiiieot two year morn In raising fundi and outfitting out-fitting hla expedition. The Amiindaeii magneiir expedition was perhiipa Ihe most modestly appointed ap-pointed that ever went for purposes of discovery '.nto the arduous Held of the arctic, lis cost waa (MO, a tutgo part of this AmiiDdten own money. Frllhjof Nanten. the Norwegian Norwe-gian polar explorer, a close friend and faithful helper of Amundsen, belud ralsu another large part. Arnunlan sua Dually nble to put off f mm Chris lliiunlii In tho little 17 Ion t:uop tljcu on June 17. I',"-I Voyag of Gjo. The CJoa sailed ii round the north end of America, icaclitnii the mouth I of tho Mice k.-iilc river uliuiit Hi-plein ber :i. ll'U.'c II went l.y way of Huf-Itn'a Huf-Itn'a bay, Lancaster sound. Harrow strult, Feel sound, .tallies Itcscs strult mid Uuo strult. Twice It wintered tn Itin Ice. For u period of many months during this voy.iue Aimnnlicu main liilned nn observatory on King Wit llama lund. al lutlttide ds degree! :tu mliiuics, loiigltuite I'd ilc'Kteea west, within !0 miles, us h" calculated, of the magnetic pote. The northwest irtp. fulfilling ihe dream of (he early nuvigatnr. brought Amundsen great renown. lie then planned uu expi-ditiiiu to drill around to the North Pole se;l, but cliutiged his mind ufier startini: unci went lo tl I lit the Alltatitlc pnle |