Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

. asked Johansen what he was thinking
| Of when the bear stood over him. He
said, I could see my gun in the bow
! OF the boat, and 1 kept thinking what
! a fool you were not to take that gum
! Oaughter.)
Just before we reached land We
/ met with another accident. We had
! gone ashore to climb a hummock and
| look ahead. 1t was Johansen that
startled ME again. He cried, Look at
| the kyacks!' They had got adrift.
/ and were being blown out into open
water. I stopped minute. Then /
! thought, well, if we lose the boats,
we will die anyway, and pulled off
! my coat and kept on something to
ward off cramps, handed my watch to
! Johansen and jumped into the icy
! ocean. In minute my legs
/ began to stiffen. l saw the
! kyacks floating faster and fas-
| ter. But l turned on my back to
/ gather strength and saw Johansen
walking back and forth, frantic but
/ helpless. Soon l began to gain on the
boats but my legs were again stiffen-
1 ing. l was freezing all over. At last
l touched the stern of the boat. | put
J my hand on the gunwale But l was
! too stiff to draw myself up. l thought
! Well, I shall lose at last But by
/ main force I c0ntriyed to get one leg
| into the boat, and dragged myself up.
/ l could scarcely paddle the boats to
! the foe. Johansen grabbed me, tore
off my clothes, showed me into the
! slepeing bag. In an hour or two [ be-
gan to feel warm and the next morn
ing we started again for the land.
''T here we found ourselves with
only a weeks provisions in all. But
We did not suffer. There were plenty
Of bears and the provisions kindly
walked up to us and stood still until
We got ready to shoot. We killed
some fifteen bears and had provisions
for the winter. We went after the
walruses that lay about on the foe
and killed four of them. Thus we
had enough fat and train oil to give
lis heat and light until spring. The
Walruses paid no attention to us. We
! could go up and poke them with a
stick and then they'd simply rise up
on their launches and gaze at us in
wonder. We built a house measuring
ten by six feet on the inside and
passed there a long, mOnOtOnous win
ter. We had nothing to read but a
nautical almanac and a table of To-
garithms and that't pretty dry lit
erature. We'd often sleep twenty
hours at a stretch. When spring
came we pushed forward once more
Alternately sailing and walking we
| came to a rough cliff. And one day
I was startled by sound. 1t was a
| dog barking. | listened and the dog
| barked again. | hurried down the
rocks and told Johansen. He looked
| at me sadly as if he thought, We'll,
his mind has given away at last!' But
| l didn't wait. l rushed up the cliff
again. l saw something moving far
| down on the ice. 1t was a man. You
{ know now it was in this way I met
Jackson on Franz Josefland, the
| leader of an English expedition that
! had been there sometime living COM
fortably in houses. The first thing
! he asked US almost was, Wouldn't
you like to have a wash? And in
deed we did. But we didn't get clean
after the first warm bath and we
didn't expect to. That was quite i'm
possible.
| 1n4n loft tI1n
| Erglishman's ship for Norway, and
! landed at Vardoe Aug 81 of last year.
| We were glad, on our families ac-
count, to hear that the Fran had not
! yet arrived But six days after we
reached Europe the Fran arrived also,
not far away, with everybody on
| board safe and sound"
In closing DR.. Nansen told of the
F'ram's crew meeting with Prof. An
dree on it's return home and he ex-
pressed the hope that this voyager
J would some day safely return. He
spoke highly Of the scientific results
attained by Arctic exploration. AS
soon as his lecture was ended, Nansen
commenced to furtively steal toward
| the stairway that he might escape the
crowd that pressed around him. Only
! very few had the privilege Of shak-
! ing his hand, DR.. J. D. Butler being
the first.
The actual number of tickets sold
i for the lecture was APO. The receipts
of the athletic association as a result
of the lecture were $500.
! DR.: hansen has three men travelling
with him, a private secretary, a Ian
tern operator and a lecture bureau
manager. He remained at the Park
hotel last night and will leave for
! Chicago over the St. Paul road at 10
o'clock this morning.
Dr.. hansen rides a wheel and while
| in Minneapolis last week enjoyed q
spin around the city.
SNYDER ON CHRONIC INSANE.