, 1876-11-27

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which went forth In quest Of the North Polo
Inns returned without finding II. and returned
with tho decided impression that 1t never
will bo found, tho event has aroused great
interest In Eug1and and amply bocauao tho
officers Of tho Alert md Discovery represent
tho road to tho Pole as impasaable. Already
thoro is evident u determination TO keep on
trying The Spectator Of Nov. had long
and hopeful article upon the possibility yet
Of getting to tho Polo, although It Is unable
to assign any good reoson why any ono
should want to go there, except that " En-
gland should not, aftor her magnificent Of
forts and In the face of the whole world,
acknowledge herself defeated by the aangerH
and difficulties OF march, ono-hfth of
which Inns already been accomplished" The
Spectator argues TINT it In already proved
possible, ovon by tho routo Of Capt. NAnEs,
to got ship within 450 miles OF tho Pole,
mud !" tlat from thence journey rs long
as from London to Edinbnrg must
be mado in extreme cold-say, 10 below
zero-over immo7ab1o Ice packed into hum
mocks 30 high TINT alodges cannot move, and
that why must DO cut with tho ricka1 at
the rate Of mile nnd o quarter day." Al
though tho conditions aro torriblo, tho SPEC
tator does not deem tho work impossible.
Although there is no longer any hope Of an
open polar sca and the region produces ab-
soluto1y rothing to eat, it argues tint scienco
twill furnish future expeditions with un-
drcamt-of resources -poFtablo light md heat,
for instance, from tho now1y-d'scovcrod
mines at Disco seouro preveutatives against
scdrvy methods Of clearing way more ex-
peditious than tho pickax; and traotion-
agonts for trayoratng tho wny, when cleared,
indefinitely more powerful than Arctic dogs.
With electric lights and sufficient supplies of
dynamite, md trnetion-ong gino for tho
6moothcd road, tho travorsing Of tho dreary
ice-p1atn, broad as 1t is, aud hummooky as 1t
1uay be, must be within the limits OF human
cnorgy aud resourco."
Tho programme dovolopedby tho Spectator
is worthy Of English pluck, and what il tho
end It has in yiew2 Simply that somo un-
dauntcd mud oxultant Anglo Saxon may reach
the spot where, to look north, he must look
directly at the zenith and, If ho looks ut
tho world, must of necessity look south.
Beyond this, nothing. We Hey Ansle-sa1o.s,
because it is only tho Anglo-Saron family
that has engaged in these desperate, reckless
Po1ar expeditions. Other nations are con-
! tont to lot tho North Polo lone. No one
has heard of Fronchmon, spnniar1s, Italians,
De1gians, or Portuguese fighting icebergs,
hummocka, aud foes, or exposing themselves
to tho horrible exposures and sutferiuga Of
tho long, dark winters Of tho inhospitable
Arctic region. It is only tho foolhardy and
;nqniBitivo Englihhman and tho otho,
members Of his family who clint
Mont Blano, penetrate tho African des
orts, hunt the tiger in his jungles, luxuri-
ate in Patagonta, affiliate with the anthro
pophagi, and continuously, indefatigably
md bnllhcatloaly hunt for tho North pole,-
all tho moro aasiduously and cAoertully bo
cause there Is 30 little possibility that theJ
will ever get there, willing to spend grca
sums Of money, to undergo all kinds of pri
ration and suffering, and to squandor human
life ip the vain effort to solvo the sscre
locked up in tho icy caverna of the Aroti'
Pole. Granted that ut somo future time
after the sncrifice of fortunes and ugeles
waste Of human life, the Pole is found, wha
then? Cui 5ono9