The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-07
MIR. DE WINDT'S SYNOPSIS
It Has Been Furnished in Advance
and Promises . Most Thrill
ing Lecture.

Harry De Windt, explorer and seeker OF
| adventures. has risked his life In the
! tropics and in polar Businesses and has
seen the jungles of India and theprisons
! OF S1beria; author, Journalist and accom-
! plished speaker, he makes an ideal lee
turer. It is only a few months since Mr.
| De Windt concluded his perilous trim over
land from Paris to New York, 1S, oOC
| miles; and he is unpectedly to deliver a
| few lectures in America,
The first will be given in New York.
the second in Chicago, and the third in
Minneapolis at the Unitarian church. Feb.
The lecture will be adequately illus
trated with stereoptieon pictures made
from photographs taken by Vicomte dc
Cllnchamp who was one Of Mr.. De
Windt's two companions in the g irving
journey. Altogether the. lecture is one of
the most interesting. ia fascinating and in
structive tales Of adventure ever told The
following synopsis of the, lecture has been
furnished in advance by! Major Pond and
suggests its intense interest:
Object of the journey--departure from Paris
The Trans-Siberian Railway-Irkutsk- Siberian
Alillionaires--Leave for Misunderstanding on
the frozen river, Lena--A future Eldorado-Yek-
utsk-A dreary city-political eAiles-Arctic ag-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. between Yakute and
Turkish languages-Start for vergoyansk-Rein-
deer sleds--Our Arctic kit-A rough track
Filthy posthouses-Scarcity of food-Privations
commemorative Verkoyansk descent and nasty
fall--The coolest place in the world IS degrees
below zero-The chief of police urges abandon
ment of Journey disregard the advice and We
leave for Sredmi-kolymsk- wastes and
Notwithstanding by the stars-Arctic biz
zards-Povarnias-O reindeer die from exhaus
t1on-Ihree weeks Of cold and hunger-Sredni.
kolymsk-The remotest political settlement in
Slber1a--Nud novels and ice windows-The ST.
lence of eath-Indescribable sufferngs of the
eAlles-An Arctic inferno-A Siberian tragedy
and its result-First visitors here from the outer
world for over thirty Nears-Fresh diffcultje.
gradually ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for the gBering
straits-1'he last link with humanlty-Arctic des
erts-Seyere privatiors without food or fire
progress-De Clinchamp's r. feet frozen-Snow
5lindness-Hyd rophobia in a blizzard on
Tchaun bay-A friendly cayern-Rcarh frat
'rchuktchi settlement after three weeks in the
open-SHrlv natives and q cold recention-
SmallpoX-A collection of corpses-Our- nrovis
ions fnished-First meal OF raw seal meat-Our
drivers cscape-Their probable fate-Reach sec
ond native settlement hurried departure-(,ane
Despair-A pleasanter reception-Seal oi, nan
cakes-Alnerican trade--Reach east cane Rev.
ing straits--The village of Whalen-A kindly
Weicome-A feast and drunken orgies-Our con-
cealment in the chiefs hut-An unpleasant az
perience-Whalemen murdered by natives-Our
walrus hide misunderstanding habits of the
Tchuktchis--''D ante's Inferno'--The Tchuktchi
face-helig1on and characteristics-Weary days
Breakup of the ice-A whale arrives-Another
drunken orgie-Stepan's narrow escape-A rival
of the Thetis-Ianded on drifting ice-Reacll
american; \, coast-Cape Prince Of Wales-Filthy
Esk1mos-Nome City-St Michaels-The Yukon
river-Dawson-Gold mining-The White Pass
ra1lway-The 'hair-raising'' line-The Franco
american ra1lway-lmprobability Of its construc-
tlon during this century-Crack-brat houIe
yardiers-rheir ignorance of Arctic Siberia
insurmountable misunderstanding straits and
5ooo miles OF swamp-Qne section $1OO 600 600
, nnaincrence Of Russians to the scheme-o ar
rival in San Francsco--A hearty welcome in the
United States-The expedition reaches New York
after journey of over Is, 900 miles - 80
from this synopsis it is not difficult
10 understand why Mr.. Windt has stirred
London as no adventure lecturer since
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