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not conceive the nature of his undertaking.
ana owing to their dense ignorance it would
hardly be possible for them to transmit an
Intelligent account of the event through many
such natives, and after that through half
breeds, who knew little more TO civiIiza
ton.
In illustration, he cited the experience of
Nordjenskiod, who passed one of the Siberian
islands in fog while a hunting party of
the natives were on it. The natives could
not see the steamer Vega owing to the fog
but, hearing the churning of the screw they
were stricken with terror, put out their
camphres and hid themselves in the Ice
and not till months afterwards was it
finally wormed out of them by a half-breed
who had been fortunate enough to have
once seen steam vessel that the explorer
had actually passed in their vicinity.
JUNCTION CITY, Kan, Feb. 15-Prof.
Dyche, the explorer who went with Peary
IN his last expedition to the North, In an
interview today expressed his disbelief of
North pole. 1t is a rumor, he thought sim
liar to the one last summer.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Judge Charles P.
Daily, president of the American Geographical
society, when shown the Associated Press
dispatch from London today regarding Dr..
NansenS return from the North Pole said
to Commercial Advertiser reporter:
This is rather better than the first ac-
count we had. 1t is a remarkable circum-
stance that the news should come from
widely separated as Archange and Irkutsk
is rather in favor of the news being true,
but l shall want some further information
yet before accepting the report"
WHO WENT FARTHEsT NORTH?
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The rumor that
Nansen has reached the goal of Arctic ex-
plorations has stirred interest In the entire
subject among scientists here. The state
ment having been made, incidentally In the
6iCnI sion, hat fnrrt had @ka;,,
the highest north, So degrees, Gen. A. w.
Greedy has come forward with a contradic-
ton. Gen. Greedy says:
Strongly as l have admired and praised
the courage and endurance of Mr.. Peary in
successfully crossing the ice caps of North
Greenland, I cannot silently see ascribed to
him the honors that belong personally to a
gallant soldier dead on the field of honor,
the lamented Lockwood. Far from attaining
the highest north, Peary reached by obser-
walton 81 degrees 81 moinutes north, seven
miles to the south of the latitude in which
my expedition lived for two years.
He has been surpassed by the Swede. Won
| Otter, 1868, 81 deg AZ min north: the Austrian
Payer, 1874, 81 deg min north; Meyer with
Buddington, 1871, 80 deg 16 min north; the
Englishman Beaumont with Nares), 1876. 81
deg Il min north; Parry, 1887, So deg 45 min
north; Aidrich with Nares), 1875. SO deg /
min north; Markham with Nares1 1876, Sc
| deg 20 min north Lastly, the honors of the
highest north which for three centuries had
remained with England, passed to America
| through the explorations of the expedition
mad the honor to command, when Lockwood
and Brainerd reached SO deg a min north a
point that to this time has been unsurpassed
| II Nansen and Jackson wrest this record from
America 1 stand foremost among men eager
| to do them honor, but until such achievement
shall be substantiated hold fast for the men
and officers who suffered and triumphed under
my orders. and I am sure that no man will
| speak out In their Difference more uuickJy
than an officer of the United States navy r.
whom these enormously ascribed honors mus
be most distasteful."