The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-23

WILL TRAVERSE
SIBERlA'S WILDS
Harry De Windt, the Explorer.
Plans Long Trip.
TO TOUCH TWO CONTINENTS
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JOURNEY WILL TAKE HIM TO
ALASKA.
TO TOUCH TWO CONTINENTS

London, Sept 15.-Harry De Windt,
the explorer. is about to make a third
attempt to accomplish an overland
tourney via Bering strait between Eu-
rome and America. On the first occa-
sion. starting from New York, he man
ared TO reach the Asiatic coast OF the
straits but owing to his capture ana
i'll treatment by koari' thS
chief, he narrowly escapeu
with his life and had to return 1ast
wear he again attempted the Journey ~
the reverse direction, but OWNS 10 tle
noliticaI situation in China and on the
Amur. Count Lamsdorh refused TO d.
low him TO cross Siberia, and again MT
De Windt had to relinquish the luea'
Now. however. Mr.. De Wlnut Is reSeN
inc assistance from the Russian ana
American authorities, including Com
modore Melville in Washington as
result of which he intends TO start on
the journey forthwith.
Will Start in November.
Early in November George Harding.
who accompanied Mr.. De Wlndt on al
his previous travels viii proceed from
Paris 10 Yakutsk, where he VIII seI
together dog and reindeer trans ana
will await Mr.. De Windt's arrival. On
nee 10 Mr. De Windt will leave Paris
and travel by the Trans-Siberian rail-
way direct TO the terminus of lrkutsk,
which place will be reached on Dec
90. Thence he will proceed to Hakutsk'
a distance of 1900 miles, involving
three weeks sleigh journey ArrlVlng
AT Yakutsk early in January, Mr.. de
Windt will join Mr.. Harding, who VIII
then have in readiness the impedlmen-
Ia for the long journey to Ber7ng
straits A fortnight viii be spent at
Yakutsk and in the third week Oh
January the two travellers viii pro
coed northeast over an uninhabiteu
and practically unknown country 70
Mini Kolymsk, the most remote nortn-
easterIy settlement of Russia on the
Arctic ocean This region was never
visited except by an occasional Sibe-
rian trader. although one portion OF II
was traversed by an American traveller
when searching for the survivors of the
jeanette.
Journey in the Wilderness.
Between Yakutsk and Mini Kolymsk
a distance of ] 500 mileS-tranSpOrt
will be by means OF reindeer teams.
Beyond rough government shantles'
known as povarni. erected every nun
bred Versts to enable stray traveller
TO light a fire, there are no habita-
tions and the travellers will have TO
sleep in the open. This portion OF tne
journey. and especially that over tne
Verkhoyamsk mountains, will be at
tended with considerable difficulty. 1t
is expected that the settlement of Mini
KolymSk. which has a population OF
1000 political eXileS, VIII be reached IN
February. and there Mr.De Windt hopes
to fall in with Tenukchi fur or ivory
caravan returning to one of the small
settlements on the shores of Boring
straits.
1t is, of course, Mr.. De Windt's inten-
ton to avoid carefully Oumadjik, the
settlement where he nearly lost his life
and to make for the east cape, 12O miles
to the north and 1850 miles from Mini
KoIymsk, reaching there in the middle
Of April.
Will Cross on Ice.
Mr.. De Windt VIII then cross on the
ice of Cape Prince of Wales, the most
westerly point of America, where Ber-
ing straits are only about the same
width as the English channel at Dover.
Should the ice conditions not be IA
vorable the American revenue cutter
Bear will, by arrangement with the
Washington navy department. call for
Mr.. De Windt and convey him across
the strait, whence he viii return either
by way of the Yukon or Mckenzie
rivers to San Francisco. Winnipeg and
New York, which city it is hoped will
be reached in June next.
Mr.. De Windt's chief object is to sur
vey the country to the northeast of
Yakutsk, to which point the Russian
government is projecting a railway
next year from Irkutsk. Yakutsk will
then be the junction of the Manchurian
and Siberian sections. From Yakutsk
to Boring straits, which, with the eX-
ception of one mountain range, is all
fiat, will also be surveyed in view OF
a possible extension of railways. Or
the American side surveyors are al
ready working on the northern extern
sion of the Klondike railway to the
American shore of Bering straits AL
though comparatively narrow the ter
10 nd 4T,r
possibility of a bridge connecting the
two continents. but Belgian and Amer
lean engineers have under cOnsidera-
ton the construction of a tunnel.