The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-06-30
4 NEW TRIP TO THE POLE.
Another Bold Explorer Gone TO the Arctic
Resions--SanSuIneE Expectations of Success.
(Ney ork Nail and Express }

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Col. ". H. Glider has just sailed from
New Bedford, on his novel journey t(
the Arctic regions, to settle, if possible
and he believes it is possible-thC
geographical problem of what there is at
the northern axis of the earth. This ex
pedition Mr.. Glider undertakes in almost
the same manner that Stanley undertool
his great equatorial journey across Afri
ca, which ended in 1878 by his discovery
of the sources of the Nile, the sources Of
the Congo, and his descent of that great
African stream to its debouchment in
the Atlantic Ocean. Col. Gilder's walk
across Siberia, his sledge journey with
Schwatka from North Hudson's Bay to
King Williams Land and return, includ-
ing a summer search over King vii
liams Land, is the longest on record,
covering a distance of $3.50 miles in
eleven months and twenty days. During
| the journey the travellers We're required
to live on the country through which
they passed, as they only took with them
one months supplies. 1t was thus
roughing it over the wearying wastes OF
that great land Of desolation within the
Arctic Circle that taught Glider the true
method of locomotion towards the Pole,
precisely as Stanley's intelligent appre-
ciation of the equatorial difficulties en-
abled him to 90 on a well-defined cam
paign against The climate, tie topogra-
ply and the inhabitants OF Central
Africa.
.sAIy intention, said Col. Glider, at
the Victoria Hotel, where he was sur
rounded by party of travellers and
kindred spirits, among whom were Lieut..
Schwatka, Oscar Sawyer and Mr.. ". Z.
Griffith, who is to accompany him on bis
Polar journey, and who has made pedes-
trian tours of Germany and Northern
Africa, and is altogether, by scientific
training, physique, ambition and tenn
permanent, fitted for the dangerous un-
dertaking, 'sis to leave New Bedford ear
ly in June on one of the two whalers
which will leave for Hudson's Bay. I
will be accompanied by Mr.. Griffith
alone, who is graduate of Cornell Uni
versity, and who will go along as an
assistant observer; and," added the
Colonel, with a grim smile, ''to look
after results if anything should happen
to me. shall have all Of the best in
struments that can be obtained, and
many of this kind and quality have
already been contributed; but it should
be understood that the main object of
this expedition, after I reach my base of
operations, will be to push OF towards
the Pole and reach it if possible. This
is the one aim and object of this attempt
my third one-within the Arctic cir
Gle. But whatever I can do in the inter
est Of science, in laying down coast lines
and plotting Typographical features by
observation or otherwise, will not be
neglected. My set purpose, remember,
is to push always northward, and If l
stand at the very axis of the earth, no
more is to be said-that Will be my high
water mark
"And how long vii! this little picnic
glace take you.''
''I expect to return in 1890, or after
an abs ence of abont four years. My
New Bedford whaler will take me up to
the Cary Islands in Bafin's Bay, between
the 10th and nth degrees north latitude,
and thence TO Cape Sabine in IS degrees
Is minutes, where Greely and his party
were rescued. will go by some Scotch
whalcr, which I expect to find in those
latitudes in Smiths Sound, and which
will carry me as much further north as
We can find open water. But at any rate,
there is plenty Of animal food in the
vicinity Of Baird Inlet, just to south
ward Of Cape Sabine; and if necessary,
instead of making coast journey on the
western side of Smiths Sound and Kane
Basin, can pass inland and reach Fort
Conger in latitude 80 degrees IS minutes
north, where there are plenty of supplies
left by Lieut.. Greely and which will be
ample for the very polar object have IN
view
"How long will it take You to reach
this point?@
"About year; and there [ shall win
ter. Then / shall push my way to a
northeasterly direction and seek to make
my point of departure at the spot where
Lieut. Lockwood was forced to turn
backward at latitude s. degrees "a
minutes, or within 396 miles of the North
Pole
"What, then, are the favorable condi-
tions for reaching the Pole?"
II think I am not wrong in assuming
that if I reach that point attained by
Lieut. Lockwood, with adequate sup
plies for man and beast, the yexed
problem of the Polar sea viii be forever
settled; if my best judgment and expert
ence did not teach me this, I would not
be so romantic as to undertake to leave
the luxruies Of this zone. When Lock
wood was obliged to turn southwark
from that spot, less than 400 miles from
the Pole, he could travel from seven
teen to twenty miles a day over clear
ice, whereas before he was limited to ten
miles day, owing to the condition OF
the superfce. His supplies would not
| hold out and his orders were to return.
This was in the month of May"
$50 YOU are confident of reaching the
Pole if YOU begin where Lockwood left
off,"
s:Yes. 1t will require less than thirty
days more travel, and shall make every
endeavor subsidiary to this one effort,
for therein lies the mystery Of the cir,
cumpolar world.
Chow numerous party will you take
with YOU from the northermost coast Of
Greenland yet reached by man."
ssI shall have three young hunters and
their families, and 1 shall get them from
the country about Hudson Bay and