The Delta independent., 1891-03-03
HOW TO GET AT THE POLE
GEORGE REMNANTS ADVICE TO
YOUNG MEN.
Those Ambitions for Fame shosld Become Rx
plorsrs-Ths Best Route to TAKE
sledses and Dogs Instead Of
shlps--How to Prepare for IL

Traveller George Kennan says no
seld to-day offers such hattsring In
lucements to the ambitious young man
Il courage and high resolve rs arctic
exploration. ''I.ools at It," said he.
Every man, from Franklin down.
shsther he achieved success. or met
With dlsastep. has to-day worldwide
reputation. That answers the cry that
arctic exploration is cruel sacrifice
OF lite and useless expenditure o!
money. Fame, reputation Is what the
ambitious man wants, and II he loses
his lie in the effort he counts 1t we'll
lost. The guerdon is worth the trial.
There was u time I would have gone
TO search for the north pole II could
have had the opportunity. Now I am
too old to attempt 1t. A man should
be old enough to have had some ex-
periepce and yet young enough to
have the strength, the vigor and buoy
ancy OF youth to undertake such an
enterprise. / have read and studied
the subject very thoroughly, and wrote
nm article once on "Arctic Explora-
ton" for the American Encyclopedia.
There is no new way to reach the north
pole. II l were to start on such an
expedition the most feasible route
would be by the way OF Franz Josef
Land, which lies TO the east and north
OF Iceland. almost due north of Europe.
Franz josef Land was discovered by
the Australian expedition, and after
pushing as far as latitude 80 deg rees
land was seen to stretch away for
miles to the north. The method which
think would be the most successful
would be to 60 by sieges. That is, es-
tablish caches or supply stations at
intervals as far as the land reached.
or course such supply points could not
be made on ice foes, because they
would shift from place to place.
This operation would take perha
two years. said Mr.. Kennan. Then
party could wait for q suitable sea.
son and make grand rush for the
north. The supply stations would re-
lieve the party OF the necessity of
thO CutlIS LT1p
and it would be more easily handled,
as light cavalry is more readily manip-
ulated in Il battle than infantry. The
only other land that reaches as far
north as Franz josef Land is Green
land, and 1t even is a question if that
does. Lockwood, OF the Greedy ex-
pedition. pushed farther north than
any OF his party. and although he
reached the SD degree OF latitude the
shore had begun to bear away toward
the east, a fact which goes to show
that the land was rounding off into an
island.
1.-The most dangerous way to 60
north would be from Behring Sea as
the Jeannette did. There the tide
takes you to the north. and once
caught in the ice there would be no
return. unless ship could be built
like II log that could not be crushed.
In that case. il well provisioned. that
might be the surest way Of reaching
the pole. The tides OF Ba:fin's Bay
trend to the south and warmer lati-
tudes. DR.. Bessler. Smithsonion
scientist, who was on the Hall expedi-
tion, made some very elaborate calcu-
latiops on the tides OF Baffin's Bay.
and he told me that he was satisfied
that the tides there came from the
west and not the east If this con-
clusion be true it goes 10 prove that
Franz Josefs Land reaches SO far to
the north that it cuts of the flow from
the east. Such being fact. it would
be possible to push to the north pole,
or at least as far north as the land
extended.