The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-08
HOW NANSEN WAS FOUND
Story Sent Back In Detail by q Jackson
HarDsworth Man

Story Sent Back In Detail by q Jackson
Harmsworth Man.
copyrighted 1896 by the Associated Press. }
London, Sept. 7.-Henry Fisher, botan
ical curator to the University College
Museum, Nottingham, and the botan-
list Of the Jackson-Harnsworth Arctic
expedition, now entering upon its second
winter upon Franz Josef Land, reach
ed Gravesend on Saturday, with four
companions, by the expeditions supply
steamer Wind,ward. The vessel landed
DR.. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer,
at Vardoe Island, in the extreme north
ern part Of Norway, on August IL.
In an interview today Mr.. Fisher fur
ther furnished details Of the meeting
Of the two parties on the ice, and a
letter from Mr.. F. G. Jackson, pust re-
oeived, throws additional light upon
this interesting chapter in northern e1-
ploration history. Mr.. Fisher said:
''On June II, we had just finished din
ner in our quarters at Cape Flora, when
suddenly Lieutenant Albert Armitage,
R. n. G., our astronomer, put his head
in the window and shouted: How many
Of you are here? see a man on the
Ice foe. Whoever 1t is, Tam on
I'VE then scrambled for our tele-
scopes and Lieutenant Armitage and I.
who had good glasses, suggested that
the stranger was DR.. Nanses, and when
we had come up with MIN, so it proved.
''Dr. Nansen's first words. after we
had mutually stated our identity, were:
Il am glad to see you"
".By Jove,' I answered, I really am
awfully glad to see you
Then we again shook hands Still
more heartily.
az thank you very much said DR..
Nansen, 1t is very kind of you
when we reached headquarters 1t
was midnight, but as light as noon.
after DR.. Nansen and his companion
lieutenant Schott-Hansen) had bath,
were shaved and had their hair cut,
our photographer took their pictures
and they dined with US. Our dinner was
a great success. To DR.. Nansen's aston
ishment, we had roast loon, peas and 9th
er vegetables, jam tarts, cheese, preserv
ed fruits, and pork, sherry and whis-
key"
Mr.. Jackson also sent by the Wind
ward a resume OF his diary. kept during
the past year and maps of his own max
ing which entirely alter the geography
of Franz Josef Land. He has discover
ed a great sea where the map of Payer,
the Autrian explorer, shows land This
sea, which Mr.. Jackson has named
sQueen Victoria sea, he thinks extends
without a break from about 20 miles
north of his winter quarters to within
three degrees of the pole and is consid-
cred by far the most important body
OF water yet discovered in those parts.
Mr.. jackson also writes: "A long
channel which we passed through from
Tisto to Queen Victoria sea, 1 named
the British Channel. Its chief arms
are Clements Markham Channel, Allen
Young Sound and Robert Peel Sound.
To this sea / look as my most favorable
route in 1897, when the Gun returns
the spring.
The mapping OF Franz Josef Land is
practically complete and nothing should
prevent my attempting its open water,
or crust of ice, as the case may be.
Il gave DR.. Nansen tracings of my
map and his route south. AS his
watches ran down, he was unable to
establish his position correctly Until
he saw my map of last year, he suppos
that no one had been there before MIN"