The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-07

Christiania, Sept. IA telegram from
Tromsoe. Norway, I'm reporting the re-
turn of the Stella Polare, with the Duke
OF Abruzzis Arctic expedition on board.
saws the Stella Polare reached point
i'm latitude Sc degrees. 80 minutes north.
thus penetrating further north than
DR.. Nansen's record.
The Stella Polare remained fast in the
ice for IL months. The pressure stove
in her sides, making a hole foot and
a quarter across Her machinery was
also damaged.
The members of the expedition suf-
fered many hardships, and We're com
PEELED to eat their sledge dogs A Nor
wegian engineer and two Italians. mem
bers OF the expedition. perished.
The news of the assassination OF King
Humbert of italy uncle OF the Duke OF
AbruzzD was communicated 10 the
Duke OF Hammerfest. The Stella Polare
therefore. did not communicate with the
shore there. but proceeded southwards
DIR. Fridtjof Nansen, who returned from
his expedition to the Arctic regions IN
vessel. the Fran, March II. 1895. in 81 de-
grees north latitude, and traversed the
Polar sea 60 a point Sc degrees II minutes
north. situated north of the new Siber-
ian Islands.
This was a point four degrees further
north than any previous explorer had
ever reached.
4 Of CaHv0 AaC fa
Duke OF Abruzzi. a nephew OF the late
King Humbert who was born In 1873,
and who climbed Mount So F''"s. n
North America, on the boundary be-
tween Alaska and British Coiumula,
left Christiania June II. 1899. in the
steam brigantine, Stella Polare, formerly
the Jason.
The ship carried $50 tons OF coal and
$50 tons of provisions. etc. including 1900
packages, each containing % Kilograms OF
matter. and formed in such a way as to
be easily carried on the arm or shoplder
OF a single person.
These bundles were divided into four
categories, food, clothing and equipments
scientific instruments and useful but
not Indispensable articles.
The members of the expedition We're, in
addition to the Duke himself the Cav
aliera Umberto Cagno, captain in the
Royal Italian navy; Count Quirini. ma
val lieutenant: DIR. Cavalli- Molinelli. two
able-bodied seamen of the Italian navy,
Giacomo Cardont and Smono Camepa;
four mountain guides. Giuseppe Petigaux,
Alesso Fennolliet Felice Oiliere and Mi
chele Savoye; 10 Norwegian sailors and
one Esquimau for the management of the
dogs, OF which there were l2O. The latter
were fed on ''pemmican' made OF horse
meat and -four
All the members of the expedition are
supplied with an Esquimau equipment for
the Polar season, and the collection OF
scientific instruments and apparatus was
quite large
The Dukes plan to reach the North
Pole was exactly opposed to that adopted
by Nansen.
The latter attempted to approach the
pole by the longest route and with his
ship. either by the open sea or by letting
himself drift with the ice. trusting to the
strength of the Fran to Withstand the
tremendous strain
The Duke OF Abruzzi planned to make
only limited use of the Stella Polare,
and to push on in as straight a line as
possible over the ice with seds after leav-
ing the ship.
The Stella Polare carried 20 sleds, each
weighing 4sh pounds, and every sled was
to carry eight aluminium boxes packed
with stores, and n canoe.
The runners of the sleds were shod
with britannia metal and had protective
removable wooden soles.
Forty pairs OF shoes and 40 pairs OF
snowshoes were also carried by the expe-
dition, which had provisions for five
years.
The Duke of Abruzzi is a son of Ame-