Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-05

the arctic circle carried provisions a-plenty.
 Not so with Stefansson and Ander- son. Their mission was the collection of specimens that would enlighten the rest of the world as to human. animal and vegetable life within the arctic circle. They had no single objective point Their wanderings and search es took them a part of the time out over the fee of the Arctic ocean and part of the time across mountain ran ges that rise thousands of feet in the air.
 Food Stolen by Wild Beasts
 They also had plenty of provisions when they started. As though, how ever. the ordinary perils of the coun- try were not sufficient, the real own CTS of the country, polar bears and wolverines, added to their dangers. Time after time the daring scientists. wearied by months of privation. would seek the stores of food they had hid den in caches for just such emergen- cies, only to find that four-footed ma rauders had broken in and stolen hun dreds o! pounds Of food.
 Stefansson, as the actual leader of the expedition. has reserved all but the briefest summary for his personal report to Dr. Bumpus. A brief ten pages suficed for him to announce the results of the two years journey. as well as to outline his plan for last dash into the country of the hostile Coppernine people, Esklmos who viewed with jealous eyes any attempt on the part of white men to penetrate their country.
 On the map you will find tiny point of land projecting into the Arc tic ocean and named Cape Parry. Nothing illustrates better. perhaps, the uncertainty of the position of the explorers than the very first para graph of Mir. Stefansson's letter, which was written from that place on March 13 of this year.
 An Eskimo (the same Jimmy Me na-ran-na who accompanied Captain Amundsen in 1e05-6 from Herschel island to the Yukon)." wrote MT. Ste fansson, ''has come here from Baillie island and intends starting tomorrow for the Mackenzie delta. am giving him this letter. hoping 1t may get into the July nail st Macpherson"
 Just think of it-grave doubts as to whether a letter will reach a mail post in four months timel
 [ fy5 deadly fear of the Coppernine people. who have the reputation of being a murderous lot. While they have agreed to accompany me, l can never tell on what night they may have dream which they will construe as 6 warning not to go and l will be left to make the journey alone"
 Brayed Death for Science.
 The dangers from the people them selves were not the greatest obstacles 10 this. the climax of his trip, as MT. Stefansson hinted in his letter. The trip would require, all conditions be- ing favorable, at least IS days going and the same time returning, to say nothing of the time that must be spent in gathering scientific data. Six days provisions, however. were all that Mir. Stefansson had. For the rest of his food he must depend upon a country in which even the Esquimaux found 1t exceedingly difficult to find sufficient food 10 sustain their lives. The possibility of starvation, how ever, did not deter the adventurer. That he made the trip, secured his specimens and is now safely on his return is all that those who are most deeply interested in his welfare know.
 Dr. Anderson. who. shortly after he set out from the friendly deck of the little river steamer on the Mackenzie, separated from Mr. Stefansson and headed a party of Esquimaux Into the country, has written a little more ht length of his two years trip. He too has found a sentence quite sufficient to tell of experiences that must have tried the heart and courage of every member of the party.
 Baillie island, in the Arctic ocean. was the headquarters chosen by Dr. Anderson for his party. From there he wrote his report. which by Its very simplicity and directness is one of the most remarkable documents ever sent through the mails of the United States.