Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-30

make you crave castor oil and candles
as the Esqulmos are said to dor"
NO replied Gen. Greedy. II don't
thlnk any of us ever saw the day whou
we wanted to eat candles. The desire
| OF people In cold countries for fat has
| Deen much overe stlmated The human
| being can assimilate only a certain
amount of fat. and the stories pub
lished OF Esqulmos who drink oil like
| VINE are uNerdrawn. You can stand
more fat in cold regions than in warm
| put the limitations are fixed"
| Il suppose the arctic explorers OF
next year will have great advantage
over you ON account of the condensed
! FOODS which has since been inventcd?'
/ don't know about that" replied
| Gen. Greedy. you can't live long on
bread pills and meat essences. The
| stomach has to have something to fill
| II IN order that II may do it's worl,
| properly. Condensed foods are very
| Wen FOR n squirt hut they will not do
| for steady diet for any length of
time. If l We're going north again /
should take great deal of condensed
| milk and butter. We had plenty of
butter for the first part of our stay.
we carried 1t with us in tins and found
1t very good. 1t might not have been
so appetizing at home, but you can eat
stun in the arctic regions that you
would not touch here"
PROVISIONS FOR THE ARCTIC.
Tell me something as to what you
took with you"
our stock of provisions was made
| up to last for two years. / had studed
the subject, and ! took n good list of
supplies for that time We had about
ton and half each of condensed
milk. butter and oatmeal We had
plenty of cheese and macaronl and
condensed eggs We had canned fruits
and dried apples, peaches, grapes and
raisins. think that tomatoes We're
our best vegetable, and we found the
apples and the peaches our best fruits
We had plenty of flour and some
canned meats"
Did you have any fresh meats?"
Yes, some; but If We're going again
should carry great lot of fresh meat
with me. 1t could be kept in refrger-
ators. We kept meat quite n long time
| remember that the birds which we
killed in Greenland in July formed
good eating in June in Conger the
next year. You need meat to feed
your dogs. The dogs you have there
do not like biscuits or patent dog foods.
They will not eat them unless they are
half starved, and 1t is very important
In such explorations to keep up the
strength of your dogs. AS to cured
meats we found that bacon, ham,
corned beef and pemmican We're among
the best"
How about game; is there any
chance of getting any in the regions
about the pole?'
Yes, in the lands where we were
we found quite a lot of game at GER
tain times OF the year. We killed dur
ing our stay more than an hundred
musk oxen, a number of seals and
about fifty ducks"
WOODEN CLOTHING VS. FURS.
Suppose you were going again, gem
eral. what kind of clothing would you
take2"
81 should use wooden cloth for many
of my suits. ! believe that wool is bet
ter that fur for many purposes. 1t II
well to have an overcoat lined with
dogskin. The best kind Of mittens are
wooden ones, with sealskln mittens
drawn over them. We found that our
best sleeping bags We're made OF Buff
falo robes. We liked the ones In which
two men could sleep best. as in these
each helped to keep his fellow warm"
NANSIIN AND ANDREE.
HAS Nansens work really added to
our knowledge of the polar regOns?"
Not to any great extent" replied
General Greedy. Nansen foated along
in the current that he thought existed,
but the current did not carry him over
the pole, as he supposed 1t would"
How about Andree and his balloon:
do you think that the reports which
state that he has been heard from are
true?"
mo, do not" replied Gen. Greedy.
THE alleged message from Andree,
supposed to have been sent from the
balloon. was dated sixty-tive days after
he left, From this you would suppose
that the balloon was still in the air
at that time. Now, 1t is known that
wher Andree started he had only
enough gas to last twenty-six days.
~, tH,a.a In ha ia h..
balloon to remain in the air for more
than forty days. 1t might have stayed
up that long under the best of condi-
lions, but he lost lot of gas at the
start. Taking these things into con-
sderation II seems improbable that he
could still have be flying at the end of
the siXty-flve days"
Then you think he is lost-dend?"
Il don't see how one can think
otherwise" was the reply. He may
be wandering around the wilds Of ST.
IBERIA, but 1t is hardly probable"
rs the pole any nearer to US today,
general, than 1t was fifteen years ago,
on account OF. our increased knowledge |
of Arctic matters?"
81 should say 1t is" replied Gen. |
Greedy. I'VE are learning something |
every year by experience, We now |
know almost surely that the Smiths |
Sound route is the best one for reach
ing the pole"
WHAT THE NORTH POLE is LIKE.
What do you suppose the north pole
is like. general? DO you think there
is any land there?"
Il have no doubt" said Gen. Greedy, |
that there is somewhere In the Vicin-
ity of the north pole considerable
tract of land. There is reason to be-
lieve that It ls covered with Ice at least
u half mile thick at the edges, and 1t
may be several miles thick in the CEN
ter"
why do you think that?' / asked,
at Is evident that that Is the case
from the icebergs which iioat about IN
the Arctic ocean. There are different
kinds of icebergs, Just as there are
different kinds of coal You can tel
the difference between a piece OF
coal and one OF anthracite.
Well, II is just as easy 10 tell the ar
ference between the different kinds OF
lcebergs. The icebergs that come
from the land about the pole are known
as noebergs They are made up as
glaciers are made. and their surfaces
are almost Hat, They are as rule al
most rectangular in shape. You can
see from the strata from which they
are made, that they have been built
up by the snow falling year after year
IN an almost level surface, ana then
freezing The ordinary lcebergs are
lifferent in shape. They are not SO
lat. The fioebergs, as rule, are fresh
water ice made by the melting and