The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-15
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LUCK SAVED NANSEN.
He Was Lost When He Met the
English Explorer jackson

He Was Lost when He Met the
English Explorer Jackson.
VARDO, Norway, Aug 1.-THE cap.
tain of the Windward the British
steamer which has just returned from
Franz Josef land, after taking supplies
10 the British North Pole expedition
commanded by Jackson and known as
the Jackson-H amSworth expedition,
MED message here yesterday describ-
ing the accidental meeting between
jackson and Dr. hansen, which was
one of the most remarkable incidents
in the history of Arctic exploration,
for 1t appears that the Norwegian ex-
plorer had been living in a hut quite
close to one of the English explorers
stations, for long time, previous to
the meeting of the two men, neither of
them being aware of thc others pres
ence in that vicinity In this message
Jackson describes his accidental meet
ing with DR.. Nansen while the latter
was traversing the ice pack, and il
appears that 1t was a lucky meeting
for the Norwegian explorer as the lat
ter was misled, owing to inaccuracies
IN the map drawn by Payer. discover
er of Franz Josef Land and because
Or. Nansen's two chronometers and
his watch had stopped and he was
quite unable to establish his position
and was consequently trying to march
westward to Spitzbergen over the ice
pack, which was not only highly dan
gerous but probably impossible.
jackson, after meeting Nansen, con-
quoted the latter to Elmwood, the
headquarters of the British expedition.
where the doctor awaited the arrival
of the Windward. which left the
Thames June 10 and Vardo June %,
to take supplies to the Jackson ex-
pediotion and not to bring them back,
as currently reported jackson, in the
dispatch filed by the captain of the
Windward, said:
On June II 1 met DR.. Nansen three miles
out on foe, south by southeast of Cape
a aiora, and under most extraordinary
rough hut, within mile or two
of our northern limit in 1896 and this
spring we unwillingly came within few
miles of his winter quarters DR.. Nansen left
the Fran with one companion, Lieut.. Sigard
Scott Hansen, lieutenant in the Norwegian
navy and director of the astronomical, met
geological and magnetic observations, and
reached latitude S614 travelling northeast
from where he left the Fran, which was in
"a north. 102 east.
DR.. Manson expressed the greatest surprise
and the lvelest satisfaction at meeting with
US. You understand how greatly the meet
ing anected me and my pleasure at the ex-
traordlnary chance which had thrown it in
my way to render him service and restore
him to his friends.
Jackson then describes his own ex-
periences in exploring the western
parts of Franz Josef Land telling how
he has drawn extensive, accurate maps
and has discovered new regions, add
ing:
When the Windward left in 1896 we went
on months expedition to the northeast in
a little boat, the Mary Harmsworth, and dis
covered large tract of land to the westward
OF hitherto unknown limits and magnificent
headland composed Of ice from it's summit
to the foot, and having at its base a huge
Unacceptable rampant of ice We named if
Harmsworth Cape and only approached the
base on the headland with the greatest diff
Guilty, owing to
sURGING MASSES OF ICE
and furious gales, during which our boat
was upon several occasions nearly smashed
to atoms.
We landed on the coast as often as posi-
bic and assembled the highest peaks and made
numerous geological and botanical collec-
tons. Far up Cambridge Bay we discovered
another lofty ice headland and named it Cape
Nansen. There our boat was nearly lost ow-
Ing to her sea anchor having been carried
away, and huge block of ice which was
swerVing round stove in several of the blanks
But we managed to bale her out, and then
rigging another anchor with oars we had
altogether very exciting voyage
This spring has been phenomenaly mild
Although we marched north great distance
fortnight. open water. reaching from the face
of a huge glacier east to the precipitous end
OF another huge glacier west. Advance by
sledges was thus cut off We then struck
southeast from Markham Sound and added
greatly to our discoveries of 1895 but we
were again stopped by open water reaching
entirely across the sound, SO we turned
westward, succeeding in exploring the entire
Western shores. During April terrific snow
storms, coupled with rises in the tempera-
ture, entirely broke up the ice and prevented
marching, but we took number of valu-
able photographs.
1t is believed that the Fran NAV
turn up here or at Bergen shortly, as
she stood the voyage very well. She
has plenty of provisions on board and
there was no sickness among her crew
when DIR. NanSen left her on March
A. 1895. Prof. Mohn says that the
scientific results of DR.. Nansen's OBJ
servations are magnificent and that
several islands have been discovered.
DR.. Nansen, in describing their life dur
ing the winter of 1885, said:
When the bears flesh had been ex-
hausted, we were obliged to kill the
weakest dogs to feed the others and
continue thus until the whole pack had
been slaughtered. Myself and my com
panions started in the direction of Spitz-
bergen on May 10. After that we oc-
cupied six weeks on snow shoes, drag
ging sledges and Kayaks (the Artic
canoe loaded on sledges after us. We
went partly overland and partly over
sea ice. We reached Jackson's winter
quarters, where we found all in good
health. We remained there about six
weeks until the steamer Windward ar
rived. / left the Fran in good con-
dition and drifting. locked in the ice.
The Windward will take to England
four Englishmen. of the Jackson
Farmsworth expedition, whose names
are Childs, Burgess, Fisher and Blom-
quist. Mr.. Jackson purposes to remain
in the Attic regions until next summesf
with the intention of pushing further
north. jackson and his companions
are in excellent health and spirits. and
full of hope as to the results Of their
expedition.
LAURA WANTS DAMAGES.