The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-08
HOW THEY NET NANsEN.
Story Told of the Meeting by Henry
Fisher of the University.

Fisher of the University.
copyright 1896 by the Associated
Press
London, Sept Henry Fisher, boz
tanical curator to the university col
1ege museum, Nottingham, and the
botanist of the Jackson and Farms
worth Arctic expedition, now entering
upon it's second winter on Franz Josef
land, reached Gravesend on Saturday,
with four companions by the expedi-
tons supply steamer Windward.
This vessel landed DR.. NanSen, the
Norwegian explorer, at Nerdoe Island
in the extreme northern part of Nor
way on August Is.
In an interview today Mr.. Fisher
furnished further details of the meet
ing of the two parties on the ice, and
a letter from Mr.. F. G. Jackson, just
received, throws additional light upon
this interesting chapter in northern
Mr.. Fisher said: ION June II we
had just finished dinner in our quarters
at Capt Flora, when, suddenly, Lieut.
Albert Armitage, r. N. R., our astrOn-
omer, put his head in the window and
shouted:
How many of you are here? I see
a man on the ice foe. Whoever it is,
we then scrambled for our tele-
scope and Lieut.. Armitage and I, who
had good glasses, suggested that the
stranger was DR.. NanSen. "
BY the time Mr.. Jackson met the
stranger they looked like two specks
in the distance. After watching the
stranger still more carefully we defin-
itely concluded that he must be DIR.
Nansen. He was wearing skin and was
jumping from one ice hammer to an
other in a marvellous manner"
Mr.. JacksOn's letter is addressed to
MIA c. w. Farnsworth and continues
/ the story. He wrote:
Hearing that some one had been
seen on the ice, 1 started to meet him.
I saw a man on the pack-ice south
| east of Cape Flora and second person
| further off.
| Il fired several shots to attract their
| attention and after an hours walk we
met the man on ski and concluded he
| was a Norwegian and imagined he was
! a walrus hunter who had come to grief
| somewhere.
| Approaching nearer, we noticed that
| he was as black as a stOker and that
| from head to foot his clothes were COW
| cred with grease.
1--WE shook hands warmly and the
! following conversation ensued:
"Jackson-I am awfuIly glad to see
you
jackson Have you a ship here?'
| 'fNanSen-'NO, my ship is not here
| ''JacksOn-'HOw many are there of
..Nansen-I have one companion in
the distance there
During this time I was looking
( steadily in his face and in spite of his
| long black hair and smoke black skin,
| 1 thought he was DR.. Nansen, whom L
| had known in London. So I exclaim-
ed: Are you not Dr. Nansen?'
| g Yes, am Nansen,' was his reply.
! g Yes, by JOve,' I answered, I really
| am awfully glad to see you Then we
again shook hands still more heartily
! q I thank you very much said Dr.
| Nansen, it is very kind of you
when we reached headquarters it
was midnight but as light as noon.
After DR.. Nansen and his cOmpan-
ion lieutenant SchOt-Hanses) had a
! bath, were shaved and had their hair
| cut our photographer took their pic
| lures and they dined with US.
'Our dinner was a great success.
ITO DR.. Nansen's establishment, we
had roast loon, peas and other vegeta-
bles, jam tart, cheese, preserved fruits
| and pork, sherry and whisky
Mr.. Jackson also sent by the Wind
| ward a resume of his diary kept during
| the past year and maps of his own
| making which entirely alter the geo.
| graphy of Franz josef Land. He has
| discovered a great sea where the map
| of Payer, the Austrian explorer, shows
| land. This sea, which Mr.. Jackson has
| named Queen Victoria sea, he thinks
! extends without a break from 20 to 78
north of his winter quarters to about
three degrees of the pole and is the
! most important body of water yet dis
| covered in those parts.
Nr.JacksOn also Writes:"A long chan
| mel through which we passed from TriStO
to Queen Victoria sea 1 named the
British channel. To this sea look as
my most favorable route in 1897 when
the sun ventures in the spring
1.-The mapping of Franz Josef Land
is practically complete and nothing
should prevent my attempting its open
water, or crust of ice, as the cause may
be.
Il gave DR.. Nansen tracings of my
map and his route south.As his watch
| es ran down he was unable to estab-
lish his position correctly. Until he
saw my map of last year he supposed
that no one had been there before him. -