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Show for two years. Dr. Charcot's objective point is Alexander Island directly south of Tlerra del Fuogo. He contemplates con-templates a much longer land journey than Lieutenant Shackleton made, approaching ap-proaching the pole from an unknown lde. This la his second Journey. ' There seems to bo a fascination for some people In polar expeditions, but j only enthusiasts would ever undertAko ' the Journey, for it is surely tempting providence to do so and the results at least cannot bo very important. SOUTH POLE EXPEDITIONS. The Salt Lake Telegram says: More and more details are coming to light of Lieut. E. H. Shacklcton's "dash for the" south pole." to which he approached within 111 miles. On his former trip his crew suffered much from scurvey; this time not one was afflicted. But he carried few vegetables. Instead he bestowed the utmost care in packilng meats In cand of triple thickness and double painted. Before starting he said the food question ques-tion ."had been worked out to the final analysis." His journey was most perilous. per-ilous. No level ice plane such as Peary found in the north but a glacier of ibroken Ice to climb, and rising to a height of 10,500 feet, and forty miles wide. In that rarifled air the temperature temper-ature dropped to 72 degrees of frost It must have been terrible, hut the i bravo band never faltered. He gathered a valuable geological j collection, and made a complete me-1 t teorologlcal record; eight distinct I I mountain ranges and more than a hun- ired mountains wore discovered and i many glaciers surveyed and photo-j photo-j graphed. Tho magnetic pole was dls-i dls-i covered. Mount Erebus was ascended, the active crater measured and tho old one explored. In the meantime Dr. Charcot, tho French explorer, sailed on December I 17 from Punta Arenas with supplies |