The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-29
new YORK HERALD MONDAY 49, SHEET

ounoeat1on 70 the English project of passing
through the aeck OF Smith Sound, With the aid OF
sleds, ~ follows;0by snip through sne Enropean
70 the North Pole-thence penetrating the Central
ro'a THE VALUE OF THE NEW FISHING GROUND.
DR. Petermann and the two Austrian explorers
are IL seen, perfectly la harmony the latter put
years ago by the former. Koldewey's laoors are
severely criticised by Peermann IN comparing them
and Payers little expedition, though the programme
first published by these explorers said expressly
that the expedition Was not Tor reaching the nigh,
ATTITUDES. The material value OF Weyprecnt and
PAYERS discovery Is immense. These explorers
saw. indeed, only nm whales, which are not so vau-
worth OF 1900 tnaers. Captain Svend Foyn OBJ
tanned In 1870 cargo valued at $4,000 lhalers.
the Arctic shark and the white whale OF
great value In the whole Eastern Sea-
Zemoa IN 1870 he met SIX Russian yachts, when
IN lew days had caught 500 white whales tat
eighty tnalers 10000 thaiers. Petermana thinks
that the booty OF this sea viii prove as rich mine
as the Polar Sea To the north OF Benring Straits
has been TO America wnere In the two first years,
recorded, and the whaling business Is there as good
ever. The English are already beyinniag to
covery, and whale Meet Will proceed thinner fro
Norway next year. In America" adds Df.
great Of
Payer aud Weyprecng IN the hlah North
lwrlIes the NEW YORK HERALD, OCTOBER 26 has
pleasure r the Norwegian p captain Mack mas
spoken out mis- idea OF voyage through the entire
Polar Sea, as lar as Behring's Straits Now that the
prejudice SO long existing against tue Nova
Zembla Sea has been cast on anu a real basis Tor
Petermann VIII NOT only fnd the necessary
leaders--ns WeYprecht ana Payer-but that the
funds for TINS new enterprise will also be forta-
THE STRUGGLE TO REACH THE "PoLE''
Is getting more exciting wear by year, and every
knowledge ABOUT matters IN the high Morrill, But
when Will the great news come o. some perhaps
Tor geographical point Or IDEA We nave
designated Inc "POef And what Will be
found when the explorers get tneref All is stu
mystery. And yet we nave descriptions VI IT, Frau
Saga has been there, and, disresarding the discuss
Sion oil polar savanis and soipractica captains, sne
assures US that up there IN the highest North exists
the great bOundless open POlar sea. The tradition
has existed Tor centuries perhaps; hers come from
generation 10 generation and from lanu land ana
Tells u.s. TO encourage us TO exertiOn perhaps that
up there Is The lce-lree sea around Inc pole, alive
with numerous dsn swept over by myrlads OF sea
fowl, wnile in the centre Is beautiful slan0 whose
shores are washed with warmed waters, and upon
when blossom most beautiful trees and MOWERS;
ana are not broken by the rude norJh WIND.
No storm ventures to disturb the eternal
repose OF this central, ice-Iree polar sea- warmed
through by the Gull Stream, mat Kane thought ne
had seen, that DR.. Petermann expected to lnd with
certainty ana which Koldewcy declares TO exist but
Ill the pnantasy oi the study-rOOm explorers. IT ~
from the Russian sailors and dwelers OF the north
ern coast that we get TINS pleasant Polar legend,
winch came across tue OLner uay. Inc HuSSlan,
who when lie heals VI Iresn Polar explorations.
strokes mis- beard and says, '.Nay nay, they won't
reacn II the rolel yet the lime OF peace has notyet
come-the last disciple VI ST. John mas not yet APP
peared."
The legend as 1T exists In Russia ls as f0llOwS:-
Russia the Holy, extending from Inc Cold sea TO
the Grdle Mountains Ufal, was 4 garden OF God.
Museum at st. Petersburg SHOWS tnat the animals
living AT that time We're so large that, compared
with them, the huge mammoth appears dwarf.
s0med and bore delicious fruit. But then the Lord
transformed all this beauty into barren ICY de-
upon tue distant Golgotha, while 10 that disciple
whom Jesus loved and VINO nad lain his head
he remain until l come" Aud Jonn lived.
We're 'S unneeaed Hatred aaG envy followed hum
wherever he preached. From place to place. and
IRON land to land, Jonn with MS disciples fed, find
ing nowhere rest. Finally lie arrived III Russia 1t
was on triday-Char Friday. before HIM had
gone Anasuerus, the eternal Jew, announcing what
lie mad done and what had happened to MIN. His
lie was curse and ne cOuld not nod rest. And as
Jonn entered the temples OF the land and exhorteA
winch they mad been led astray by the beauty and
luXuriance OF The land, they made fun OF MN and
drove nim out Oh the land with his disciples towards
the north. But Wherever the apostle went he
shook the dust from ms Feet ana the land was
transformed into bleak, Icy desert. snow and Ice
settled upon the land-tue earth was clad In eternal
winter. But Jonn driven away by the wrath OF tue
people, who considered ms stay among them as
ior the land, ded toward the norm. Arriving
there, u snip received him, and ne Was taken out or
the reach his Toes. the ship Was Steered toward
tine north, and no one ventured TO follow. Behind
1t the lr0ze toUhe waves were transformed Into
lce-the eternal winter came. But the tradition
OF JOINTS leelug and his expected return renamed
In the land
PLEASANT POLAR PICTURES.
Frau saga told the poor Russian serf:-In the
high North, in The lce-tree sea surrounding the
North Pole, and upon beautiful island, John lives
with his disclpes. No one can get 10 aim, because
lmpenetrabe Ice surrounds MS retreat. But from
time 10 time he sends forth one OF his disciples,
through the open sea- through the barrier Of Ice,
which opens to MIN AS he advances to eartn again,
where he again breaches TO mankind tile Gospel OF
love. HIS reward, however, Is death; ne dies, per-
secuted by hatred and envy. Death IS the reward
OF his love. But when the last disciple snail nave
been sent out and his love rewarded with death,
then John himself Will come forth ana preach the
doctrines or peace and love anu bring TO torpid
Russia a new spring. Then Russia VIII again be-
cUme garden OF God, and mankind Will De better
This Is the tradltlon Of the open around the
Pole. Our Polar explorers receive 1t as q
ton Is pleasant one and worthy OF recital. II we
consider the disciple John as but another perSOn1n-
cation OF the aitpowerful scandinavian Wu0dan,
the bearer OF blessings 10 Ills people, santa Claus
the great Christian gtver, meme tne less he has a
significance. Legend Is often the forerunner OF
history and creates pleasant ideal pictures Of the
future for her people, for when che latter must
continually strive 10 procure. Better, perhaps, that
the Polar explorers should have sucn pictures OF
their goal before them tnan scenes oil eternal Ice.
But whether tney viii find the apostle Stall there or
noe cann0t be 1OretOld. II they 40 1nd him they
could do nothing better than tell MIN that his
preaching Is sadly needed in Europe, where neigh
borly peace and love appear 10 be tnings OF The
past.