The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-15
DR.. NdNSEN rs RETURNING.
The Arctic Explorer Has Arrived at Var
doe, Norway.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE ST. James
Gazette publishes q special dispatch say
ing it is reported that the Arctic ex-
plorer Nanscn has arrived at Vardoe. OF
the coast Of Norway. in the Arctic Ocean
of Finmark, on board the steamer Wind
ward.
Adyices from Malmo confirm the rcpors
that Or. Nansen is returning from hi-
attempt 90 reach the North Pole by
drifting TO il Ia "a steamer. lie is as the
ST. James Gazette dispatch says, a.
Vardoe. lie is accompanied by Lieuten-
ant Hansen. They left the steamer
Fran. IN which DIT. Nansen expected TO
it carried by the drifting ice 10 and
across the pole last autumn. The ex-
petition failed TO reach the object ~ it,
search. but il got TWO degrees and ATTY
minutes further north than did any
previous expedition.
According 10 a report received here Or.
Nansens object In leaving the Fran va
d push further north than the steamer
was able 70 penetrate the ice. This
was ia March. 1895. The reports az hand
at present are somewhat conflicting.
VAKDOE. Aug B.-Dr. Nausen. the
Arctic explorer. arrived here today. lie
says that his expedition attained one ~
its objects in traversing the Polar Sea
10 a point northwarl OF the New siberian
Islands. namely, 20 latitude So deg. and Il
m q. north
No land was sighted north Of latitude
50 cer. After reaching the parallel os
SIS de-. and "A min. the expedition went
southwest to Franz Josefs Land. whers
il SCENT the winter. the members subsist-
ing on bears flesh and blubber.
Tr hansen arrived here on the steamer
Nindward. WhicE IS conveying provisions
% the sworth expedition.
The explorer is perfectly well. The IRAN.
Is expected 20 arrive at Nardoe or Ber-
gen i'm a short time. All was well abroad
gen I'm n short time. All was well aboard
OF her when DR.. Manson left her.
There seems no doubt from the above
dispatches that Manson IS returning -
last. though the news is quite meagre.
and the facts I'm some respects do not ape
pear 90 be clearly given It is not easy
10 understand. FOR instance how IL nap
pens that De has reached Norway on th-
Wlndward. which set ont from Engian.
carly Inst month 20 carry supplies 10 Mr..
jackson who had wintered fro Franz JOSEF
Land. The Windward would hardly 10
expected no return from that region FOR
m least six weeks TO come. IT she ala
for her failure. which would be a serious
matter. is not given IN these dispatches
Neither is II clear where Dr. Nansen left
the Fran. or th- condition under whce
he separated from his ten comrades that
h~ and his companions left on their ves-
sci
n the above Information IS correct he
discovered 10 nj about four degrees north
of the high 81 point sf5aiaed Ia the same
waters BY the Jeanette.
Thus End. another attempt TO pene-
,fste the secret OF tho Icy north. Or
Nansen. in a vessel especially Constructed
70 resist the nipping Of the ice. starte-
from Vardoe on July n, 1903 his inien
ZION beiux TO pass into the Kars Sea 10
the New Slberisn Islands and drift wilhl
tho ice 10 the pole II his theory proved
tru- thar he would ind a nOrth-fowing
current Prior 10 his VOYAGE h. address
ea the ROYAL Geographical Society in
London and explained his theory OF ths
northern drift.
H. called attention 10 th- fact thar he
CUR Stream drift tho rivers ~ 5 IBERIA.
and the current flowing north through
Behrlug Strait pour m immense volume
or water into the Arctic Ocean He dd
not believe that this inhur ~ waite on.
the Euro Asiatic side OF tho polar b1'in.
through the Spitzbergen and East ''-ee1-'
,snd south-roa5ng currents. H~ h.
neved that a large part OF this water "as
carried north and across the polar h2sin
b, current which u was his oo'ni"h
flowed northward IN the ne'ghborno"i
~ the New Siberian Islands We DO
uaved that th. alleged iesnne'te relies
found on the southwest coast or '"e"n-
land had been carried across 'h~ p"'.
~ this current. lie hoped 10 he carried
across the polar area. and 20 emerge
from the ice somewhere bciNeor Green
land and Sptzbergen.
The Fran WAS provisioned for SIX years.
News came from Or. Nans-n after be rad
fairly entered tht KsJa Sea. but no
later. information was received until now
lie did not call FOR dogs that had o~rH
collected FOR him on the siberian coast
and whether he had been able 10 push