Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-03-11
AZ 0PEN PoLAR FnAuD.

CoatAy AcStatiua " sone VI sHe
States wherever he could and an audi
snce gullibls enough to swallow his
ronderful yarns. A few days ago he
,ot q st. Louis reporter by the ear and
'uttou .holsd aud stuffed him full OF his
,ondsrfal stories abou. whales. E,qui-
maux and all sorts OF remarkable things
he says he has..sssn in his explorations
about the Pole. He made that reporter
he had made twenty voyages to
the Arctic regions, aud lad passed
the most remarkable and trying
experiences Of any navigator nowlivins.
He bad been all over the globe. sailed In
every sea, and since early manhood had
been Captain Of valing and surveying
But ws will let him tell his own
story. as Published BY the reporter In
the st. Louis R<pub,ican
He made his iast trip about . year ago.
starting from HAkodadi. Japan. In . full
rugged ship with forty-dve men all told.
In latitude ~ he found an open sea clear
OF ice. In latitude 81 he noticed an ex-
traordinAry dip Of tho compass. and on
taking soundings discovered the cause Of
ID 10 be immense lodes Of Q magnetic sub
stance In i've fAthoms Of water. IL was
mixed with minerals and fine particles Of
gold. In latitude 81 he encountered the
ice belt, grounded under the water and
extending In height In some places over
400 feet. 10 stretched east and vest as lar
~ the eye could reach. lie here discov-
cred hat the needle pointed due south.
and In his own mind concluded thai the
magnetic deposit he has passed had some
conaection with the direction In which the
needle usually pointed. by climbing 10
the highest points on the icy barrier he
could see directly into an open polar sea
lying beyond. and by tracing along east
wsrdly he found . passage through into
this ssA, with . depth OF 10 fAthoms. The
water vas quite warm. . gull stream
was steadily setting out with Q velocity OF
tom four 10 six miles per % he
pulled through this passage In whale
boats aud found ~ TO DO eighteen miles
wide. In the norm part OF tnis open sea
he found nearly frssh leaves OF piAntAins,
banana n other tropical plants noating
on the water, anu v mai they had
been on the trees but . short time.
Last October he found . large female
whale going north through the open pas
sage before mentioned u also saw
migratory birds going north In July these
birds went back south with their young.
and about tho same time he observed
whales going south with their young.
From these facts, no concludes thai during
. considerable part OF the year there 10 q
warm elimAis within the open polar sea
sufficient 10 produce tropical fruits. In
the ice barriers. On one OF his trips, he
found bones and tusks OF the mAstodon,
which. in 1876. be carried TO the Centen-
NAL at Philadelphia. They were 80 large
that some nAturalists thought the animal
10 which they belonged must have been
forty feet In length. He Also found some
hard wood In the shape OF troughs Inn
beddcd In the Ice. They looked like feed
Ing troughs, aud the edges bad the appear
ance OF having been gnAwsi by animals.
In sailing west he struck the north part
of the coast OF New Siberia. where he
found q race OF people that hs thought no
one had ever seen before or heard Of.
They spoke an unknown language. which
sounded like Hebrew. They spoke q few
words Of Hawaiian and the Esquimaux
language, and with these and the aid Of
from ,ss north liz "a .saa.in,.a with
the E.quimau, language. having passed
four winter. Win ,h,, people; living on
During one Of th... Winters. which are
without daylight. be made . journey Of
''g n .Ae
me, with many disasters. the most .eriou.
Of which was an encounter with = polar
broken anal III io.s on. ans,, D n V N. iss,
hand. another being so badly iaceraied by
the ,seth OF the animal that It !, badly out
were Completely torn from hi. bod,, which
bears the marks Of wounds which It seems
am" .nh usi Tn maj aI ny man s'aiu TO
incrsdibls sixs, some being reported TO
weigh a. much a. 5000 pounds. lie son
s,nIprs ~. ans. n",sr !. ~, n.sas
small steamer Tor towing purposes. which
nc hoPes 70 obtain from the Government
and leaves for washington City thi. morn.
ing.
o this old Captain Cutie or Tu''is
'n' A'no0'n''' 'aikins aha most gen
oa 'a'
o"a "nen no was mere no eouid
P .u oa' iooin ,ui VI c'euu'ou'
.P'' '"'''ea '0' houfs WIN
jams 's.' IN.
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% ,n ,''' o's.n VI 'ne worm
him off: We fear the banana line
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