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Show HOW TO GET ATTHETOLe! GEORGE KENN AIM'S ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. Taos Ankitloas fur lame Miocld Beeons Ex alorrn The test Boats lo Take elriUes asd Does loktead of Ships How to Prepare for It. Traveler Georgo Keunnn says no field to-day offers such flattering inducements in-ducements to tho ambitious young man of courage and high resolve as arctic exploration. "Look at it," said he. "Every man, from Franklin down, whether ho achieved success, or met with disaster, has to-day a world-wide reputation. That answers tho cry that arctic exploration is a cruel sacrifice of lite nnd a useless expenditure of money. Fame, reputation is'what the ambitious man wants, and if he loses his life in the effort he counts it well lost The guerdon is worth the trial.-There trial.-There was a time I would have gone to seareh for the north polo if I could have had the opportunity., Now I am too old to attempt it. A man should bo old enough to have had somo experience ex-perience and yet young enough to have tho strongth, the vigor and buoyancy buoy-ancy of youth to undertake such an enterprise. I have read and studied tho subject very thoroughly, and wrote an article onco on "Arctic Explora-tion" Explora-tion" for tho American Encyclopedia. There is no new way to reach tho north pole. If I were to start on such an expedition tho most feasible route would bo by tho way of Franz Josef Land, which lies lo the east and north of Iceland, almost due north of Europe. Franz Josef Lund was discovered by tho Australian expedition, and after pushing ns far as latitude 82 degrees land was seen to Blroleh away for miles to the north. The method which I think would be tho most successful would be to go by sieges. That is, establish es-tablish cache;i or supply stations at Intervals as far as tho land reached. Of course such supply points could not bo made on ico tloes, because they would shift from placo to place. "This operation would take perhaps two years," said Mr. Kennati. "Then a party could wait for a suitable season sea-son and make a grand rush for the north. The supply stations would re-liove re-liove tho party of the necessity of carrying provisions for the entire trip, tod it would b3 moro easily handled, as light cavalry is more readily manipulated manip-ulated in a battlo than infantry. The only other land that reaches as far north us Franz Josef Land is Greenland, Green-land, and it even is a question if tliut does. Lock wood, of the Greely expedition, ex-pedition, pushed farther north than any of his party, and although he reached the 82d degree of latitude the shore had begun to boar away toward the east, a fact which goos to show that the land was rounding off into an island. 'The most dangerous way to go north would bo from Behring Sea as tho Jeannetto did. Thore tho tide takes you to the north, nnd once caught in tho ice thero would be no return, unless a ship could bo built like a log that could not be crushed. In that case. If well provisioned, that might be the surest way of reaching the pole. Tho tides of Baffin's Bay trend to tho south and warmer latitudes. lati-tudes. Dr. Bessler, a Smithsonion sciontist, who was on the Hall expedition, expedi-tion, made some very elaborate calculations calcu-lations on tho tides of Baffin's Bay, and he told roe that he was satisfied that the tides there came from the west, and not the east. If this conclusion con-clusion bo true it goes to prove that Franz Josefs Land reaches so far to the north that it cuts off the flow from tho east. Such being a fact, it would be possible to push to tho north polo, or at least as far north as the land extended. |