The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-06
! m THE ARCTIC.
" ! Seattle Man Saw Near
the North Pole.
- or GIGANTIC ANIMALS.
n.od. stout Ship the Protruding
-. q the Earth Could Be
r..ehsd-Bear Anecdotes.

&c Iyersen, at present citizen OF
~. INF until few years ago resident
.x.~.sv. Is an old navigator. and the
y. x tails Of experiences and observa-
4. !, the arctic regions are very interest
= 4, !. possessed with the idea that, if he
!. srother trip northward and had two
-, time, be could reach the north pole.
r...r.r he likes Seattle too well, and the
q ,,oIs Is much too far away for him to
3. ) ssaiu. and il the long-sought pole is
soSnd it will be by someone more
8. - = ieeIaudic travel than he is. He in
- hoveyer. ct no distant date. to
- nd publish in the Norwegian lang
81. : full account OF bis explorations,
~ vil without doubt be very inter-
O. Iyersen's theory, upon which he
- III belief that he could reach the
~ pole. founded upon the fact, discov-
"a - himself in the course OF several
800. - to within few degrees of the pole.
sshst ii re must be warm stream run
.,.s around the pole, and If this stream
"a Is followed. q navigator would surely
- Is the pole. This stream is a contin-
..,Ier Il the gulf stream, which runs along
e. psst Of England, Scotland and Nor
q and though it has myriads OF fish it
s. never been explored to its end. Mr..
I,nen saws that this stream goes almost
....tlv In the direction of the north pole,
"a nat at some distance on the other side
~ pole the stream reappears at point
rkeh would indicate that, ii it does not go
Srely over the pole. il goes very close to
4 small, strong boat. properly equipped,
Z. lversen says, could easily 60 to the
,sth pole b. following the stream.
soaking OF the peculiarities and inter-
.sae things which he observed IN the far
nth. MI. Iversen said yesterday:
III many points in the far north I have
tund bones, which resembled stones,
airy inches across aud many feet long.
"a could easily knock them to pieces with
ne. The animals TO which these bones
lloused must have been 100 or 200 feet
ne.n
aVhat kind of fish are found in the far
,nthf"
There are several kinds of cod fish. One
Then, re- -embles our lake herring. They
uu,e to the coast of Norway about the last
March. This fish Is called the loda'
"a have seen them as far north as -
iee5ees, travelling eastward with the gulf
nam. So numerous are these fish that
100 are taken with a dip net 10 feet
naare at one dip and on one occasion /
IA my men caught 1000 in one Dip"
sHoW Is the climate?"
sIhs climate is very changeable. At one
rns on the 9Th OF ply, when I was in 76
i4rees north, it was very foggy and
MI cold, and we had to have the thickest
duercoats. The wind was blowing hard,
|nd there was two inches of ice on all the
|i1ing Two nights afterward the fog had
dared away and We we're sailing through
|lulm sea, and the weather was so hot
~ two shirts were uncomfortable. In
II countries and islands the grass grows
MY from three 10 five inches long. A
|aipxrecked party, consisting of sixteen
IN, Ill of whom died of sherlock, left
ncord showing the temperature for three
nunths during the first of the year. 1t
nnged from 80 to 40 degrees below zero.
hn's think it is any colder at the pole
IN It's at 72 degrees"
what about the glaciers?"
The ice mountains increase in size-es-
kraly on the west sides. At one point
vhsre We found little harbor the ice filled
handruined the harbor. Some of these ice
nountains are 1000 feet high and fifty
niles long; others are ten miles long and
hS"
Is there cny game up there?"
Yes, seal, walrus, bear, deer, fox and
sh abound. The seal and the walrus eat
Y fsh. The deer are very poor in the
iFing and fat in the fall. They live on the
% on short root grass growing in the val
Ek The bear is the king of the beasts,
90 they carry on an endless warfare with
Sea lion. walrus. etc. They have q
Res Of diving into the water and coming
ap beside walrus, which has become sep
mated from the others. The bear will box
ne valrus on the side of the head with his
nss Just as q mother would her child,
.rs one side and then another. When he
an summed the walrus he will pull him
eHof the water onto the ice, feat which
axes four men to do with pulleys,
Aanons OF geese are also found on the
maa Islands. but they go south in the
sussf, and have seen the same species of
use on Puget sound that ! found in the
furen regions