New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-05
TIE FATE OF ANDREE.
THE SEARCH EXPEDITION.
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Through the kindness OF the various authorities
] have. In the comparatively short space OF one
week. got the equipment OF our eXpedluon tnr9 9
the Government TO the AUTHORITIES IN SIBERIA, ana
received free pass s'sneu 10y ,ne Trans'shren
Railroad. and now We are ready 10 start on our
long Journey Our nrst st8ppns pags Ti Of os
insects a present from Baron Nordcnskold. to the
kmtsk The railroad IS not Yet built ali the way
that place, but il is officially opened to a point De
behind horses t. Verkholensk or some other place
on the Upper Lena, where we shall emD i;iE, iJr
or Vtimsk and afterward on other craft TO the
mouth of the Lena we shall not come before , he
middle OF July when we shall try to rsneh ,hs
Kotielnoi Zone OF the new Sinerah Islands, III
OF the Andrec expedition at the depots provided
on that island for hansen;
All The Authorities in Eastern and Northern Siberia
To aid ne in every way to spread the knowledge
annnrotus and other stores belonging TO the Andree
expedition and promising rewards Tor the discoTery
OF any such object. any traces. which VIII read
70 nciuaJ 'rcrmstences and events arts
ing upon way WILL OF course DECIDE our move
ments ,....., ,,,,. ,...,. q, c,
Petorsburg and with whom had short talk ex-
pressed the opinion that We ought TO go down the
70 tho Western Taimyr Penlnsular. which Andree
and his companions may have reached and where
,hore Is plenty OF game which he thought they
could easily subsist The islands and the coast OF
that pennsula are not visited by natye tilDes
whsreas the regions east OF the Talmyr Peninsula
are visited by natives who could render the Andree
expedition assistance In case OF need
The vice president OF the Russian Imperial Geo
graphical Society, General Semenon on the other
adopted by the Swedish Geographical Society =
ma nely to go down the River Lena. and from It's
lower regions make researches In different dlrec.
lions and gather Information through natives AMI
Ruaslan hunters personally. he said, you can
not 20 over the whole of wide regions making re-
searches through the aid of the authorities AMI
private persons your numbers Will be, so to speak
multiplied n thousandfold. one man cannot. with
much hope Of success search FOR a lost needle IN
haystack but If n thousand peop.e unite In search
ing the hope OF success will be much greater. As
for going down the Yenisei and to the Western
Talmyr Peninsula you would need vessel OF your
other equipment than that which you now have got
Besides, you would not have much prospect OF find
INK any traces OF Andree. because when he
ferred with me In London about these matterD1nc
said that If his balloon should be carried into me
northeastern polar regions he would try to reach
the New Siberian Islands, where have laid up
depots therefore consider It wise OF you 10 try
and reach those islands, because Andree and his
followers might have gone there in such state
that II would be hard for them from there to reach
any Inhabited place. Furthermore. you could II
you consider 1t necessary, from Lena reach the
Taimyr Peninsula. and. by the aid OF natives
Though II might be very desirable TO make in
thority Professor Nansen, It will be Impossible
for us TO follow his advice. We shall therefore
carry out the original plan. and make the best we
can O H.