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agreed to get satisfactory charter. As
they failed to do so. he now sues them
for damages.
The Next Arctic Expedition.

William Glider, journalist, Arctic voy-
agcr and brother of the editor of the
Century, is peculiarly interesting just
now. He is about to set out again in
search of the North Pole. He purposes
to do it on his own hook. He asks no
one to go with him, and he starts from
this city entirely alone. Glider may be
theoretical, but he is also eminently prac-
tical. No man has had more experience
in Arctic regions, and certainly no man
has ever learned more by such experience.
He spent two years with Schwatka in
King Williams Land in search of relics
of the Franklin expedition, and he was
on the Rogers when she was burned while
seeking the Jeanette He went across
Siberia alone in the dead of winter, and
telegraphed the first news of the destruc-
ton of the vessel to America.
Glider bases all his hopes of success on
the Esquimaux. He lived with them on
terms of perfect equality for two years
and he knows them thoroughly. He
adopted their habits while with them,
eating walrus blubber, rubbing his body
with oil and going for months without
washing himself. The pores Of the skin
were thus kept closed, and he had no
difficulty In keeping warm. The Esqui.
maux are kind, attractable and exceeding
ly hospitable. By adopting their sugges-
tions and following their advice, Glider
and Schwatka travelled 1851 miles in one
sledge journey. The party withstood the
lowest temperature ever experienced by
explorers in the field For sixteen days
the thermometer was over 1902 below the
freezing point. The party relied for food
upon the eyertions of the Esquimaux,
and lived exclusively on Esquimaux fare.
Glider became acclimated, and he speaks
enthusiastically of his friends and associ-
ates among the tribes.
His plan of operation is startling but
plausible. He proposes to take with him
1000 rounds of ammunition for breech-
leaders and magazine guns and small
supply Of rum and tobacco. He intends
to take passage on Bafiin's Bay whal-
er and land on King Williams Land
where he will winter with the Esquimaux
whom he left six years ago. He is salts
fed that by the opening of the next sum.
mer he could organize party who would
be willing to follow him to Greenland in
search of the pole. Once landed on the
coast of Greenland the expedition would
be on the final stage of its journey. The
party would work its way to Lieutenant
Greely's last camp below Cape Sabine
The caches now at Littleton Island would
be available if food was wanted, as the
natives would have no trouble in reaching
them in their kayaks. From that point
the party would work its way up as far as
Greely's' northern-most camp, beyond
latitude S1044/.
Here Greely remained two years and
left provisions enough behind him to sus-
tain party like elders for two years
longer. Lieutenant Lockwood, of Greedy s
party, went within 400 miles of the pole.
He had no Esquimaux with him. Glider
is confident that with his tribe of Innuits
he could reach the pole and return in
eighty days from Greely's camp.
He places his expenses atnot more than
$4,000 With this sum he says he will
guarantee to satisfy the Esquimaix and
enter the polar circle with an Arctic ex-
petition unequaled in equipment and ma
terial. He expects to start on his journey
within fortnight. He has raised the
most of the necessary expenses by his
own personal exertions, having written
numerous magazine articles and lectured
repeatedly in behalf of the project One
thing is certain. No more startling pur-
pose in the way of exploration has been
conceived since John Ledyard started to
walk from New York to the Cape of
Good Hope by the way of Behring' S
Straits. ~ Y. Letter in Phila. Press.