The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-12-02
THE FAR NORTH.
A Letter Written by DR.. Manson,
the Arctic Explorer.


DefOre he is caught in tho ice which b
hopes will drift him across the pola
regions. The letter is dated at Yugo
strait, which separates the Europea
mainland from Waigatch island at tn
south of Novaya zemlin. He wrot.
August O. He says of his little vessel
the Fran, which he built specially t.
Withstand ice pressure:
The Fran is splendid ship for ic,
navigation. She is as easy to handl,
/ and steer between the foes as boat
She has already given me many glae
moment when have seen from tht
crows nest how well she behaves ant
how strong she is. With feeling O
safeness let her quietly run with full
speed in between the big, heavy foes
sE- breaks them underher with almost
no shaking, no sound in the vessel her
self
Months before Nansen sailed he sent
a man hundreds OF miles into western
Siberia to get thirty of their best
sledge dogs that were to be found and
to deliver them at Yugor strait in July.
Dogs are an Important feature of Nan
sens plans and it was regarded as a
matter of so much consequence that
the man succeed in his mission that
King Oscar had gold medal struck to
give to him If he fulfilled the duty con-
iided to him. He was on the ground
with thirty-five dogs when hansen ar
rived. Nansen wrote:
My man Trontheim went to the
Ostiaks on the river Soswa, where the
best sledge dogs in western Siberia are
to be had. There he bought forty dogs,
as he thought some of them might be
lost on the way, and he was certainly
right, as five have died by various ac-
cidents. From the Soswa river he
travelled over the Siberian tundra, then
through the Ural mountains, then over
the vast plains again until he came
acre with the dogs, travelling at last
With the sledges over the bare ground,
over grass and stones, as is the custom
here, where they travel with sledgc
Ind reindeers in the summer as well
rs in the winter. Trontheim has car
RED out his task very well and as re-
ward he will get the golden medal of
King Oscar, which have brought with
ne for him. Now it only rests with us
20 make good use of the dogs They /
are nice-looking animals, white, black
Ind gray, and with pointed nose and |
tanding ears, good tempered, and
'asy to manage. But against strange
logs they are furious; they almost
Tiled Samoyed dog which they got
lold of the other day; it would have
an f(1r~1 m MI 7 4 IL
'oor creature
When Nansen wrote his coal tender,
sailing vessel that was to replenish
is stock of coal, had not arrived, and
e was in much anxiety because unless
he came soon he would be compelled
} start with the coal he had in order {
, get through the Kara sea and pass Z
long the coast of Asia before the new 9
e should form. !
In his steam launch he made short :
in the Kara sea, and /
seemed favorable for an /
lsy passage. He said of his further v
ans:
my present intention is to steer Y
along the Siberian coast I'M f
we reach the mouth of the Olenek il
YER, west of the Lena delta I shall f,
sep as near as possible to the coast g
herever there is much ice, as there t,
generally more open water along the
asst than in the ice. If there is time
ID good opportunity should offer
'elf l shall go into the mouth of the is
enek, as some twenty-six other dogs IL
e waiting for us there. As the a
,dge dogs from eastern Siberia are VI
morally known to be better than the Ii
stern Siberia ones Baron Toll, the
oerian traveller, who is now in ST. ST
ria, proposed to me to let some dogs M
1T for us there too, SO that if 1 w
'uld happen to pass may take them. it
"A small expedition has also been
It to the island of Kotel ny, the most to
stern of the New Siberian islands. its
this island two depots of provisions wi
be left, one on the northwest ST
st and one on the southwest coast gr
is on Baron Tolls proposal that CIR
Sc stores and provisions are ar ou
ged there. AS he says, they can do
harm, but it is not probable that
shall want them. Nobody knows,
vever. what might happen, and had -
Long of the Jeanette expedition is
some such stores of provisionson tn,
New Siberian islands the expedition sta
I'D not have had such sad fate, M
l think Toll is right. prj
After having passed the Olenek eal
r we shall go northward along the I
t coast of the New Siberian islands ton
ar as we can in open water. hope cry
e there by the beginning of Sep 1
Der. 1t may be that we shall meet car
| unknown land or islands to the dro
Invest of Kotelny, and possibly not
e may be open water along the
is there. If SO l shall of course
t as best can. But when we get
1rther there is nothing left except
t the Fran get beset in the ice and :,
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