Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-14
lELEGRAPHlC.
DR.. IANSEN'S TOUR.
IL Dld Not $50 The Pole but Cane
Nearer Than Any Explorer
=, REACHED Sc ma AND II MIN.
,,,m Wa, ibiniun,d IN lS0j-Nc
Land sighed forth Of ~
NJ gre =.

v,tu,. sweden, Aug. l3-Vbc
mater Dagens Nyhuter mas fe'
,,,s communications from d. Nan
.ni Lieut.. Schou. Hansen, from
"-t,spd Of VaIdce. These communi'
,.,,s,s,o that they abandoned the
Fam ip the autumn Of 1898 and re.
,orsd to the ice.
me steamer windward, carrying
,,opl,s. to the Jaokson.Farnsworlh
,,osdiliou, picked them up near Fam
Jns, Land. They expected that tue
Fam would eventually arm to tho
-, cosst OF Greenland. DR.. Nansen
,,nsd TO resch the North Pole, hut he
.uehed n point four degrees nearer
nan any other explorer has done.
REACHED SO Drd. i4MIS.
vppOr. Norway, Aug. l3.-Dr
Ns,.,n Isit tue Fran on March IL.
,,q5 IN "a dugToCs II minutta notth
'.,,,,,1e. situAted north OF the New
s'ss,in,' islnuds. No lana was signteJ
lin OF 81 degrees Of latitude, or
,sssrs TO Franz Josef Land, where ho
's,',d tue winter, subsisti1g on bears
a,,h and whale blubber.
nr. Nnnsen ana his companions are
d. m. best ot health. The Fran ~
,spscted ut Natdoe or BERGEN Hhorliy.
sbe stood the Ice well. Ihet. were
no slek perBons on board when Manson
MALuo, Sweden, July la.-lho
,ifnn.,r windwaTd took letters for
Nansnn when II started " the relief OF
he Jackson. Farnaworth expedition
a. Mr.. Jackson expected 10 nud Nan.
mi and was convinced that Ills iGon
idtiung across the pole on the Ice
vas impfacticablo. lie was also con-
WINGED that hansen would return In
tbe direction VI Franz Joseph Land.
Dr. Fndthloi Nanseu, tho Norwegian
,ceuti.t, now 80 yenrn Of age, sailed
uom ChTiftiania on June -, 1893 on
a VOYAGE Of discovery 10 the Arctic
regions and with the Intention Of
reaching the north pole II possible.
lie embarked on board the three
matted schooner Fran, which wht
lfoyided With l00.hotso power steam
Engine. She was OF SO0tous burden,
ana her aides were 90 constructed as u
force all ice meeting the vessel to pass
uuder II, thus preventing all plnchlnR
aud scTewius. The Fran was launched
al Lsutwik, near Cntistianla, on De
l0ber 70. 1899, and tue Norwegian
Parliament gave Dr.. Nanson s5.,O
10 aid OF his exptdiiitn. additional
unds were forthcoming from private
Subscriptions, including one OF Ovel
5000 from King Oicar.
Ihe Fam was In every way admir-.
sbly equipped aud bad crow Of
Twelve men, all OF whom occupied tht
,abiu, when measured only thirteen
feet square, aud which was heated by
means OF nm English PETROLEUM stove,
which consumed TIRES lltfes OF petfo.
lsum n day. Ths Fran Forward
bad enough fuel on hoard TO last eighl
VI nine years, anu ths also had n,
JAty consisting Of 1000 books.
Dr.. Nausen'u plan was To make fOl
tho New Siberian islands and theme,
nil directly north until the Fran
should be- Embedded In tho Ice, follow,
irg tho west cogst Of any land thai
mlght DO met. a dispatch was &c.
srlyed nom tho doctor AT NaIdoo OF
August %, 1893, written In the Yugor
iEi straits on the second day OF tna
month, announcing that tho eKredi
ton was about 10 sail into the karl
sea ana that tho Fran 40 far hat be
haye1 sp.eudidly.
the EXrLORER.
d.. SaBsen entered tho UniveTsill
VI Chflstiauia IN 1850, anu In 1855
went ~ q passenger ON tho teallnl
steamer Viking TO Denmark strait
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