The Nome daily nugget., 1915-09-16
SUPERVISION HAS DISCOVERED NEW LANDS: HAS PURCHASED NEW BOATS AND WILL
 CONTINUE HIS INVESTIGATIONS

making further discoveries while the sea was open and free of ice. Failing in this object, the Polar Bear was head ed for Herschel island and the yesse
 was at that point when the Ruby ar rived. Immediately after arriving at the
 island Stefansson started outfitting for a second trip and has purchased everl vessel possible to buy in northern wa ters Included in the purchases made al the time of Captain Cottle's departure are the Polar Bear for which the ex- plorer is said to have given twenty thousand dollars. and the Gladiator. a small vessel which was engaged ir trading along the northern coast.
 1 Captain Cottle states that immediate ly after eomplet. these purchases Stefansson outfitted and sailed for Banks Ind Rler, he probably is at the present time. 1; IS the int ation of the explorer to es-,' r'sh a bas, on Banks iand an cont.n Y eXplor 1tions from 1 fldl i'N lnlt ilt ItluIn bi -Ilt IfTtlN nXplo-er cam )t be fcretold az II is his intention to continue until he has full lv ascertalned the limits of the new land he has located and will also see if he can find any new areas, Accord ing to the story told to Captain Cottlc by Stefansson. aside from a few day before reaching the coast of Banks | land the party suffered no particular | hardehips and although on very short
 months journey always had enough to keep hunger away. Stefansson sai6 that this was pretty good as they never
 missed a meal during the whole of thc
 journey, which was more than he could
 cay If many of his trips in the north
 This statement assumes an added sig.
 nii"al ce when it is rememberd that tho
 party was oufitted only for a period o;
 three months at the southern party. of which Dr Rudolph Anderson is the head, Captain Cottle states that they were ell "SiI at ldSl dCCouHlS anu Dut one of the party had died This was Blue, who sailed with the original ex- place at Baillie island during the early spring. Before departing for Banks land, with the Polar Bear and Glad iator, Stefansson established commun ication with the southern party and also sent Sweeny east with the Mary Sachs to continue the explorations tc the eastward and establish supply bases for future operations of tte southern party. Thus it will be seen that dur ing the long morths during which the world has been looking upon the re- tarn of Stcfansson as @ forlorn hope and hardly to be expected after such an extended absence. the explorer has been establishing many things. Not cnly had he accomplished a deed that was considered impossible in crossing I, the trackless wastes of the Beaufort sea but he has also achieved his over lWneinlnS ueSlre to locate the long ru- mored lands lying northwest of the North Anne rican continent.
 Other interesting news brought down from the north by the Ruby Is that IJscll Hadley who was one of the Kar- luk party, rescued from Wrangell is;- land by the King and Wing, has again Joined Stefansson and will remain will him during the coming winter, and that Louis Lane has purchased the Nortt Star from Stefansson and is now TO- Turning to Nome with over a thousand lfox skins which he was luckily able to lpurchase. Concerning the Challenge l - - =