Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-04

while the breezes waited from ,ha 49,. 80
S Sest are known rs the boy and tho eeirl. :
speaSing OF the odd Eskimo superstition
reniln Ias no OF the queer idea advanced by a
couple or more civilized beings. to Wit two
Americans named Sims, father and son who
claim that tho North Pole is nothing mora
IMAM great round hole into tho interior Of
ule earth, which Is Inhabited by a rnco ~
sn'all people whom they call the Frilkitea.
INC Frilkiies, we are told. roam NON, ths
l'o'Ar region in summer time seeking whom
anu what they may devour, and when the
iong Arctic night comes they return to ihcir
noe along with thenatiye animals and birds
TO the interior ofthe earth, which, by tho ay.
Is said to be warm and comfortable. hut
perhaps You have hoard Of sims Hole. as
II has been described. II the region Of the
pole Is inhabited we do not yet know II. but
there may be people there, and II so they are
probably tribe OF Eskimo, for traces Of the
Eskimo have been found as far north as the
sist parallel
me interest aroused in the frozen North
was first a commercial one. Inspired by a
desire to reach tho wealth of the Orient by a
short cut through the Arctic seas. SO for
several centuries there were numerous futile
attempts to discover other Northwest or a
Northeast passage. Since Mcclure, in 1854.
forced the Northwest passage from Berlng
Sea to Baflin's Bay, and since Nordenskjold
in 1878 pushed tho vigor through lee and
snow, from Northern Norway to tho Pacific
Ocean, "the golden dreams Of groedy NOR
chants hayodisappeArsd. and thcommorcialc
interest in the North has become scientific
problem, involved In the regions surrounding
tho North Pole.
The loss OF the Fmnklin expedition hall
o century ago led 10 nearly a dozen OK
petitions in search OF the missing explor-
ers, and since the excitement Of these has
passed and the fate OF the Franklin party
been definitely determined. tho spirit OF adj
venture has subsidized and modern northern
yoyagers are prompted only by the desire to
secure scientific data and enrich tho fund OF
human knowledge. The first expeditions
that can properly bs regarded as wholly the
outcome Of this purpose were those com
manded by Mares and Groely, the former
sailing from England 1876, the other from the
bnlteu ptates IN 1919. Inc result OF these
expeditions produced bitter controversies,
for Mares, who set out for three years yoy-
age, with perfect equipment, returned in one
year with his party crippled by seurvy; and
Greeys party was almost wiped out by
starvation, and the survivors were rescued
from the verge OF the grave. Later expcdi.
lions have not failed to profit by these sad
experiences. and the success Of peary's party
in 1912 seem to have stirred new and
international interest In Arctic research, SC
much so, that at present no less than q
dozen expeditions are attacking or expect to
attack the unknown boreal regions. The
two Of them from which We may expect the
greatest results, are the American under
Lieutenant peary and the Norwegian under
hansen, who set out last summer and will
attack tho polar mysteries from opposite
directions. There Is strong probability
that one or both Of these will succeed In
reaching the pole. Peary's primary object is