The Detroit times., 1914-10-16
ANSSON IS
Il DEAD, SAYS
()RlIER FRIEND
Martin Anderson Says
cosrn lee Drift WIN Save
Explorer and Friends
DULD CARRY THEM
no 81. PATRICK ISLAND
olIarity Of Arctic Tides Ex-
lily What Led to Belief In
Lost Continent

.
py FRED 1. soALT.
DATTLE. wash. Oct. l6.-Capt
Rtin Anderson 10 stubborn opu'
Dkefansson IL not dead he said.
rpolnted out reasons for believing
20 ske explorer must be dead. Three
n adrift In the Arctic ocean -. !.
nupplies. No dogs. -. Only
~ gums. -. Winter!
Dfefansson,. repeated Capt. An.
Ion. rs not dead"
And lapssd into silence. Silence
~ this man from the north II q
~ Such silence In embarrassing
dfsconcerting TO temperate zone
n1ferboxes. We call II ian awk-
,1 pauae.''
Rkat i there for them 10 eat!"
gnistsd.
= turned cold blue eye upon me.
oal.'' he said. Bear"
ut no vegetables" I said. mo
Fihat.s risht.. be said. -And no
IN heat. No grand opera"
Mt such . diet"
ne rood enough" he finished for
NH not touch them for they viii
always on the move. IL II only
- you shut yourself up In your
- mt the scurvy comes."
kko cold"
!Ihey are used TO the cold"
mi they are drifting
~ the east" said the captain.
o ico drffts to the east"
~ then, n the explanation Of
otnDborn optimism. There are
40 nH reason In Il. The ice drifts
- ;Gast. God and the times. Il
- havo q hand In It They and
Lett Continent which 6tefansson
~ and which other explorers say
ttn6rU. God and the tides and
Inot Continent are all conspiring
51vo the Ice east And to the east
~ pntrick land. and cached food,
Danks land, and waiting ship.
rut. Anderson has Just come down
- ne Arctic circle. He isa fur
80 and hunter, and his camp 10
<1ov island. Just east Of the mouth
~ Mackonste river where Il
Hf1oo into the Arctic ocean.
rgthor est II the Land Of the
6oGnnsson came to me the last
~ Wos north. the time before
unlostook 70 head the Canadian
tPotiou expedition. He had come
n ne east--and one Eskimo and
ok team. He stayed eight days,
1I0g and putting on fat For he
very lean
~ told me about the blond Eski-
TO me Il was m old story.
- never seen them. but the Eski-
20 who bring me furs have seen
-. and 20 have . few white men.
6teey o true.
>Ihoy are . wandering tribe. and
~ : few OF Thorn are white. They
1.ber go. Some Of them appear
~ ~ part white. In the fall Of the
1r they hunt deer on Prince Al
land, and they live on seal on
- lce Ill winter. Some times they
~ The Dskimo villages--there are
- Prince Albert land. Often
cross Dolphin strait to the
rlpnd. But they have no perma-
20 villages.
AZ had never occurred to me that
y white Eslkimos might be descend
from Norsemen. until Stefansson
y ne about the Morse legend OF
- The Red, who ned with his fol-
DokU-men and women-from
>oaland many hundred years ago.
Lhon ] remembered that an old
tWogfan captain Of q whaler had
Ne once OF the carvings on the
~ nskimos' spears which looked
y the old Morse runes."
An1erson did not see Stefansson
~ until last March when the ex-.
11or bought from him the schooner
~ Bear which Anderson had
Qght north ave years before. Stef-
Lon persuaded Ole Anderson, the
1(o1n's brother, TO 60 with him
9eurgtson In their search for the
1& xariuk.
/ ne KArluk, II viii be remembered,
~ the ship Of the Canadian explora.
- expedition which was wrecked
WrangeI island. OF the Siberian
1ol her crew and members of the
1ktt escaping 70 the island.
Copt. Bartlett. Peary's skipper on
North Pole expedition. Was Stef-
1oo's ok1pper also. Bartlett es-