The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-28
The ddhia 4ailu Eagle 5aorumg, July

VIII ne ever return alive? OF course,
this Is one of the chances that al ex-
plorers have taken. If ne and his two
compaions perish it will add but three
names % the list Of daring men who
have bfaveG Arctic perils TO find the
Polar sea. But Andree mas provisions
fer four and a half months witn him.
and even f his balloon should let him
down he and his companions have
good fighting chance for life
| SIGHTING THE BALLOON.
A fact thar did not find general news
paper circulation is that on August II
Indian Superintendent, Vowel, of Brit
ism Column bic, teiegrsphed 20 the Cana
dan government at Ottawa that credi-
| bic information had been received from
Two Indian parties. separated by a con-
siderable distance at the time OF ooser-
walton, that q balloon (Andrees, or
/ course, il a balloon was SEEM had been
sighted in latitude IS degrees. 10 min
utes. and west longitude 127 degrees. 10
minutes. They said that the balloon
was pushing a nearly northeriy course.
I The point indicated by the figures is in
! the mountainous region of Great Bear
/ Lake, about 300 miles south Of the Arctic
ocean and in the neighborhood OF the
/ middle course OF the Mackenzie river,
/ in the latitude OF Davis Strait. The air
/ line distance from this point to Spitz-
bergen is $3.50 miles, and the direction
/ from Spitzbergen considerably south OF
west. The wind may have sWerved him
( south from the pole. or, in the circles OF
winds, may have carried him over the
pole and is now carrying him back
again.
Balloons have been known to make
very short time. July I, 1859. Wise and
La Mountain sailed from st. Louis, No.
and landed the following afternoon at
Henderson, Jefferson county. n. Y,
having travelled 1,150 miles IN 10 hours
and so minutes, a speed of 81 miles an
hour.
expected at any time.
PREVIOUS NOTABLE JOURNEYS.
The latest and most notable journey TO
the pole was that of Nansen's. He reach
ed the farthess point north, 86 degrees,
1s.6 miutes. In the Fran he passed east
under Nova Zembla and continued as far
as the Liakov Islands, and then catching
the ice drift that he expected would take
him 70 the pole, was circled around TO
the west toward the pole intending to
cross the pole in much the same direction
as indicated by Andree's route No. 3.
ard come out between Spitzbergen and
Greenland. He found that the drift would
take mis- boat some distance south. toward
xrvif Let
the boat, intending to make dash 10
the pole and get back to intercept the
Fran He missed the boat on his way
back and was found by an English ex-
uedition sent out by Alfred Harmsworth.
editor Of the London Daily Mail, Os Franz
Josef Land. Another notable expedition
was that Of the steamer jeanette, sent
out in 1880 by the New York Herald and
commanded by Lieutenant Commander
George w. De Long, u. S. n. The boat
entered through Boring Strait asd after
being carried round and round by the
ice, was on June IL, ISL, crushed TO
pieces near Bennett Island. named after
the Herald's proprietor. north of the Liza
kov Islands
Baron Nordenskjo,d, Asdrees adviser.
and who helped him TO make MS Daliooh
trip in 1878, entered the Attic at North
Cape. the most northern point OF Nor
way. and passed east under Nova Zen-
b.a. then took the coast line and came out
in Berisg Strait His ship was the Vega.
The American expeditions all went up
the American side. Those Of General
Greely, Lieutenant Lockwood. Sergeant
Brainard, Lieutenant Peary, are very no
table, and with many others. will always
be held I'D to the credit of America and
its brave Americans.