Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1896-02-22
THE NORTH POLE.
An Interview tha, Will Interest Nspy OF
The citiIen'i Readers.
TALK WIFE \. ". D. sRYAN.


North Pile, aud ~ many inquiries have
been resiyed regarding the probability
Of the IL egraphic information being cor.
rect. a reporter u TnE ClIlIEN sought an
interview from X v. u. Bryan. Many
of our rea'ler- will remember that Mr.
Bryan WA q member " the Hall polarlS
expedition u the North Pole, and that he
spent sser two years In the Arctic ~.
gions, md un that account would per
haps beable to understand the different
dispatches that have been received In re
gard b Nansen's expedition.
Mr. Bgan, upon being asked what he
thought ~ the dispatches In regard Ia
Nan-onp success. answered.
III VII be remembered that pr. Nan
sen In vessel called The Fran. In
1913. lot the Kara aea with the intention
" pushing his vsa-el into the Ice drifts,
aud being carried Ia them by the cur
rent toward the Inle. Dr, Nan4en's plan
was certainly n very fascinating one.
IL II well known that there are almost
constant movements ~ the Ice Ia the
water n::th of the siberian islands,
"Del.org. u unitei States naval officer.
In the 'Jannette, pushed up through
hhring trsit. was caught In the Ice
pack. and his vessel WAS drift4d over a..
wards the New Siberian islands, aud r..
msin.i inbe,idei In the Ice lack for u
long time, ~ that finally he wa com.
pellei 10 abandon II. and the story II the
wonderful escape oi ths survivors. aud
their 6nal arrival At the mouth ot the
Lena river. and their subsequent return
% the United States II fresh In the minds
Of all who are at all interested IN Arctic
adventure.
The New Siberian islands, which IL"
Of the coast Of siberia north of the mouth
Of the Lena river, are visited frequently
by . very sturdy set OF men. who often
push forward toward the north, on the
Ice. In search Of seal and whales. From
these men reports have come of the steady
movement of the lee towards the north.
and stories t1 ~ long stretches of open
water reaching out toward the pole. some
whAlWs who have gone from BehriRg
strait have even declared that In fayora
BILE seasons the ice has been NJ open that
thsy have been able tO run their yssels
very cler /, the p,le. The whaler ~ "a
rule spins 'riN interesting yarn, from
a r"mparatl'rl! -light foundation, an,l
while all these stories have heru more at
less discr~iitrd. silli II has been very
fAvorite theory with arctic explorer that
one might reach the pnir hy trdvrliug
north of the New Siberian islands
"lF. Nansrn has heon away Tor some
time, and II i- ~, al all Improbable that
h. has returned ~ AT any rate, l. 0n his
honieward way. Rumors have been eur
rent Tor III" past twelve months IN r.
gard tO the return ~ nr. Nan--n. ami
just what crrdenrr should be- given H.
these rrports II II difficult t Say.
THE first report seems tO have come
from Irkutsk. which Is the capital IT "i.
IBERIA, hut II II very far from the ;ionth
of the Lena river; on that accnun; not
very much csnadrnc. WIS given Ia II.
Later. word came from iakut-rh that
Dr. San-"n WAS safe. laknt-ch IL a citN
Of North Siberia, which l. very much
nearer the mouth ~ the Lena river than
lrkutak, but at the same tine. iakut4ch
Ia many hundred miles from the month
OF the Lena river,
~ later dispatch from the British con.
sul Al Archangel. confirming the reIort
Of the safety of Dr. Nansen. aud that he
Is returning from thu North Pols. may
have come from whaling vessels. which
hal bern around towards the New Sib-r.
ian Islands and hAh returned a. Arrhan.
gel. Archangel IL u great mary miles
west Of the mouth of the Lena river. and
II Ii difficult 10 understand how the nrws
could reach Arehangel. except by nrans
0f whaling or a sealing vessel.
III Dr. Nsnsen was obliged to abandon
his vessel. he would undoubtedly make
for the New S'@risn Islands. b,cause
that was his plan. lie hal provided u
station there. where he hal sent dogs. ~
that should he return there by boat. hr
could use the dogs Ia reach the settlement
At the mouth Of the Lena river. n. how.
ever, he had been able a. avr his yrS-rl
he would, In all probability. return to.
wards Afchangsl or the Kara sea.
Many supposs that should h. succeed
In being carried by the drift Ice neat the
Pole, he would return by the strong eur,
rent which flows Ouih along the east
coast of Greenland"
"Do you think that Dr. hansen reached
the Pole"
There II nothing In the dispatches
that would indicate definitely whether or
not he reach~i the Pole. The dispatches
seem 10 indicate that he Il on his way
back and that h. was successful. but II
might merely mean that he was success.
ful Ia reaching u high latitude"
els there any reason for believing that
there IL land at the PoleY'
1T has been the observation oi Arctic
explorers that however high ,hey went
into the Arctic regions, they observed
birds Hying still further north, and II /.
reasonable 10 supp'-e that these birds
found land there, ~ course the Llris
might have been dying beyond the pole.
bot am Of the opinion that the proba-