| Show PREP FOR THE POLE dr hansen gives cir an exposition ol 01 his proposed expedition in isa special S P F chronicle service 81 I 1 copenhagen 1 jan 16 the contemplated tem plated expedition to the north pola pole in 1892 by dr frithjof hansen ll ansen who it will be remembered successfully cro crossed sed greenland last year ia is a feat ol 01 daring which v mong arctic enterprise is without paral el the intrepid Nor horweg weg aluir api t at a meeting of the danish geographical society at copenhagen at which the king of dendak was present eave gave an outline of his contemplated journey illustrating g hia his lee lecture ture by the help of charts his expedition is on unlike the english and american expeditions x tiona ions along the west coast of greenland or that of captain along the east coast dr llan ilan een sen olvi dwelt elt at some length oa the unfortunate jeanette expedition because he intends to follow the same route as the one attempted by that vessel according to dr hansen the jeanette expedition ended in disaster di easter not in consequence of a wrong plan being pursued but because the vessel was not strong enough for the pressure and current he ile holds dessure that it the plan of going not against the current rent but ut with the current cibich which the jeannette first of all the polar expeditions pursued is undoubtedly the correct one dr hartsen proposes starting from in the bummer summer of 1802 1892 hoping to penetrate the behring straits in the same season jaet just as the jeannette did instead s lio wever of directing his course n north 0 t it like the jeannette he intends i foll following g the northern coast of siberia forcing his way war between the kew new siberian islands past 8 t the current moving east until 1 he meets the northern current 11 hid ilia whole plan is based upon an intention of proving the existence of a northern current which starts from the siberian rivers which extends northeast and aloof along the east coast of greenland round cape farewell and high up along the west coast he ile believes himself to be in possession of many proofs of the existence of such a current in bis his lecture he cl cited ted the curious carious tact fact th that at the effects left behind by the jeannetto jeannette expedition were found exactly three years after the disappearance pe arance of the vessel on the west coast of greenland these effects mast have come from the north of franz joseph ian land d for south of that land there runs a feeble western current and it is well known that the jeannette entered a current before bhe she was cr crushed by bv the ice |
