The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-23
WILL TRY IT AGAIN
EXPLORER DE WINDT,S THIRD AT
TEMPT AT OVERLAND JOUR-
NEY TO AMERICA
LONG AND HAZARDOUS TRIP
Hopes to Survey Yakutsk Country,
Where Russian Government LIS
Projecting Extension of ST.
beriaR Railway.

LONDON, Sept. 15-Mr. Harry De
Wlndt, the explorer is about to make a
third attempt to accomplish an overland
journey via Boring Strait between Europe
and America On the first occasion start
ing from New York he managed to reach
the Asiatic side of the straits, but owing
10 ms capture and subsequent detention
by Tchuki, the Schupari chief. he mar
foWly escaped with his life and had to
return. Last year he again attempted
the journey in the reverse direction, but
owing to the political situation in China
and on the Amur Count Lamsdorf re-
FUSED to allow him to cross Siberia and
again Mr.. De Windt had to reIinquish
the idea. Now, however, Mr. De Windt
Is receiving assistance from the Russian
and American authorities including
Commodore Melville in Washington, as a
result of which he intends to start on
the journey forthwith
Early in November, Mr. George Hard
ing, VINO has accompanied Mr. De Windt
on all his previous travels will proceed
from Paris to Yakutsk. where he will get
together dog and reindeer teams and
will await Mr. De Windt's arrival On
Dec l Mr.. De Windt VIII leave Paris and
travel by way of the Trans-Siberian
railway direct to the terminus of Irkutsk
which place will be reached on Dec 20
Ihence the traveller will proceed to
4akutsk, distance of 1900 miles, in
Volving three weeks sleigh Journey
Arriving at Yakutsk early in January
Mr.. DeNWindt will join Mr. Harding, who
VIII then have in readiness the impede
menta for the long journey to Bering
Straits. A fortnight will be spent at
Yakutsk and in the third week of Janu-
airy the two travellers will proceed north
east over an untraveled and practically
unknown route to Mini Kolymsk. the
most remote northeasterly settlement of
Russia on the Arctic ocean This region
Is never visited except by an occasional
Siberian trader although one portion of
1t was traversed by an American traveller
when searching for the survivors of the
Jeanette" Between Yakutsk and Mini
kolymsk-a distance of 1,5OO miles-trans-
port will be by means of reindeer teams.
Beyond rough government shanties
known as povarni," erected every hun
dred versts to enable a stray traveller to
light fire there are no habitations and
the travellers will have to sleep in the
open. This portion of the journey and
especially that over the Verkohoyamsk
mountains will be attended with consid-
cradle difficulty.
1t is expected that the settlement of
Mini Kolymsk, which has a population
of 1000 political exiles will be reached
IN February and there Mr. De Windt
hopes to fail in with Tehukchi fur or
ivory caravan returning to one of the
small settlements on the shores of Ber-
ing Straits. 1t is, of course, Mr. De
Windts intention to carefully avoid
Oumvadjik, the settlement where he
nearly lost his life, and to make for East
Cape, 120 miles to the north and l,2OO
miles from Mini Kolymsk. reaching
there in the middle of April Mr. DE
Windt will then cross on the ice to Cape
Prince of Wales, the most westerly
point of America, where Boring Straits
are only about the same width as the
English channel at Dover Should the
ice conditions not be favorable the Amer
lean revenue cutter. Bear will, by ar
engagements with the Washington navy
department call for Mr.. De Windt and
convey him across the straits. whence he
will return either by way of the Yukon
or Mackenzie river, Dawson. Winnipeg
and New York, which city. 1t is hoped,
will be reached in June next. Mr.. De
Wtndt's chief object Is to survey the
country north of Yakutsk to which point
the Russian country is projecting a rail-
way next year Yakutsk will then be
the junction of the Manchurian and ST.
berian sections. From Yakutsk to Bering
Straits, which, with the exception OF
one mountain range. is all fiat, will also
be surveyed in view of a possible extern
sion of the Siberian railway On the
American side surveyors are working on
an extension of the Yukon railway to the
north shore of American territory
Strong currents and icebergs preclude
the possibility of bridge to connect the
two continents, but Belgian and Amer
lean engineers have under contemplation
a bridge to connect the two continents.
The straits are In no place deeper than