Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-04-23

| long experience announced here to-
day he will leave Seattle for the Arc
tic Ocean about June l in a 3OO-ton
power schooner now being built here,
ard exepcts to return to Nome or
Seattle next autumn with Vilhjalmur
Stefansson and the other members of
the Canadian government expedition
that sailed from Victoria, B. c., for
the Attic Ocean June II, 1918 Capt.
Lane plans to be at Banks Land, in
the Polar Sea, about August >, and to
meet Stefansson there. Lane, in the
power schooner Polar Bear, took Stef-
ansson and two companions from
Banks Land to Herschel Island last
August, and afterward sold the Polar
Bear to Stefansson, who returned to
Banks Land with this boat and the
small power boat Gladiator, intending
10 pass the winter in exploration of
Banks Land and then, on the breaking
OF the ice this spring, making further
exploration of the new land which he
discovered last year, north of Melville
Island Capt Lane is now in Seattle
supervising construction of his schon-
err
Capt. Lane is going north, not under
contract with the Canadian govern
ment, but under verbal agreement
with Stefansson. Lanes new power
boat, which probably will be named
the Great Bear, will be of wooden con-
struction, and the strongest fce-resist-
ing vessel ever built on Puget Sound.
Lane will take with him gasoline and
other supplies for the Stefansson fleet.
Stefansson has asked the Canadian
government to permit his parties to
continue their work a year longer,
but it is believed that on account of
war conditions the explorers will be
ordered home. The expedition was
planned to continue three and a half
years.
Unless ice movements are unfavor-
able, Capt. Lane expects to reach
Banks Land at the time fixed upon. II
he has good fortune, he will call first
a Herschel Island, where he may re-
ceive word from Stefansson. If he
does not get instructions there, he vii
proceed north to Banks Land, making
stops at points agreed upon last year
where Stefansson may have letters OF
men waiting for Lane. 1t may be thai
the explorers will choose to return tt
Nome in their own boats, the power
schooner Polar Bear, Alaska. Mary
Sachs and North Star, but the vessel.
probably will be out of repair and un
able to make the quick voyage tina
will be necessary to elude the treach
erous ice, which comes up the coas
rapidly in early autumn. If all goe.
well, the explorers should arrive il
Nome soon after the middle of Sep
TENDER.
The Stefansson expedition from tht
beginning was divided into two part
les. The northern, under Stefansson
planned to seek new land in the Beau
fort sea, and succeeded, notwithstand-
ing the loss of the principal boat, the
whaler Karluk, which was crushed in
the ice the first winter out. The south
ern party, under Dr. Ralph Anderson
has been exploring and charting the
delta of the Mackenzie River and the
country to the east and also making
a geological survey of the islands and
mainland at the mouth of the great
river making geological survey of the
islands and mainland at the mouth OF
for copper and coal. Copper nuggets
ajound along the waterways, and the
Eskimos make their weapons and
utensils of beaten copper. Stefansson
who discovered blue-eyed Eskimos in
the Coronation gulf country, east OF
the Mackenzie, some years ago, these
people being. he believed descend
ants of the ancient Scandinavian set
tiers in Greenland, is not reyisitine
1 these Eskimos during his present