Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1907-11-19
NOVEL DASH TO POLE.
Amundsen win Be Drawn BY
Bears on Next Expedition.
CUBS NOW IN TRAINING.

Norwegian Explorer Of Northwest
passape Fame viii Stay Six Years
IN North II Necessary and Try For
Pole BY esrins Route.
"Gee around the hummock, Oscar
Haw that lead. Theodore, and a little
more speed. II you please. Albert anc
william are trottlng ahead OF you"
Thus win the next up to date hunters
for the north pole drive their hardy
teams to It's lair. Their beasts Of draft
and burden will not be reindeer or
dogs, but bears big. white, enduring
polar bears.
This is the very latest scheme fog
reaching the pole. says the New York
world. Ronald Amundsen. the captain
who In 1904 successfully finished his
three years navigation Of the north
west passage in the little sloop Gjoa
fathers the idea. The captain, proud
of past achievements and sangulne Of
future success, arrived in New York
recently. In the Gjoa he located the
true magnetic pole. With the bears he
win try to discover the geographical
north pole. There viii be four bears tR
ali, one each 70 a sled.
Hagenbeck Of Hamburg and Bostock
Of Coney Island will train and break
the bears before Captain Amundsen
drives them to sledges. Two polar cubs
are in training near Hamburg. They
are being petted. doctorcd. brought up
BY hand, taught to associate with hu-
mans and broken TO harness and draw
ing burdens.
Captain Amundsen believes the
scheme practical. In the flrst place, he
says, polar bears like cold weather
glaciers and field ice. An arctic snow
storm or blizzard Ii to them only 9
summer picnic, an ice assure only RI
excuse for jump or swim and ar
iceberg their browning delight.
'srhe alternating habits Of the polar
bear" said tho discoverer. ''render 4
peculiarly fitted for arctic travel. Il
does not have to rest at such short in
tervals as dogs. but can endure whole
winter Of the keenest cold aud discom
fort with real pleasure. The bears VII
be fed on seal flesh,
''Each bear Ia ten times as strong Al
q horse and can haul as much as I
hundred dogs. when tanned the bear
are tractable. reliable and affectionate.
n be fnds the region OF the nortl
polo inhabited the captain may give
with H8genbeck's and Bostock's con
@ant, bear matinees and realize pref
g penny IN the arctic circulating me
dunn. II
Captain Amundsen win make no fiy
ny night incursion into the domains o.
Jack Frost He VIII 80 north to stay
elk years II necessary.
II want to secure the Fran, Nan
sens polar ship, II can" said he. q
consider the manner in which Nansel
fitted out the Fran IDEAL We vii
provision her for six years and in Nv,
years by remaining on the ground o
Ice we shall have gained until an op
portunity comes to advance again.
believe ! can locate the geographical
pole.n
AA0NANA AAhNNANAhh ANAtuA1 Va NNh
tain Amundsen's plans Is the route b.
intends to follow. II is that Of tn
unlucky Jeanette expedition, througl
Boring sea. He considers this the onl.
true way to reach the north pole,
my experience in the northwest pas
sage has taught me much" said tn
captain. II found Eskimos much far
Their north than expected and abb
20 stand cold much more severe thai
that OF their own habitatlon. The
make nothing Of going out in a ten
perature OF 72 degrees below zero"
Commander Peary's theory that
white man cannot stay north for NOR
than two or three seasons Capital
Amundsen scouts
''The arctic prospect, with its swir
ing SHOWS and glltterlng expenses,
altogether lovely" said he.
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