Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02

seeking food or suffered from hunger.
indeed we never lost a meal. OF the
100 dogs that we used we lost only
one by accident and none by starva-
ton. When they came out they were
as fat as pigs. The men on the
journey gained weight"
St~efansson threw into the discard
all the theories and practices of 9TH
er Arctic explorers, with the result
that he and his party suffered no
hardships, they lived comfortably.
they accomplished their object, and
with the exception of the men who
were lost in the Karluk all the men
came through in good shape.
Probable one reason why S~tefans-
son carried practically no food was
! that travelling for hundreds and
sometimes thousands of miles moth
ing could be placed in a cache, for
when you came to look for it it
would have disappeared and be about
as hard to find as a barge drifting
in midocean," as the explorer put it.
All Arctic explorers, said ~Stefansson,
carried light loads, the lighter be-
ing the easier to travel with. The
men advance as far as the food will
go and try to get back before 1t is
gone. Stefansson did directly the
opposite.
"Peary, for instance" continued
the explorer, would start out with
twenty or thirty sleds. When three
or four were empty they and part
of the party would go back, with
food enough to last them to reach
the base. And so it went. Finally
at the end when the destination was
almost reached only two or three
would be left and they would make
a quick dash and then back to the
base. Under Peary this method was
carried to it's highest perfection.
"Now we intended to use this
method as far as that went. but in
the early stages of our explorations.
We lost the Karluk, most of our
scientific equipment and most of our
good men, so we had the task of
doing the work without the equip
ment we had to do it with"
Institute of Technology, Iowa, OK
ford, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Paris.
being trained in oceanography, ter
r~estrial magnetism, marine biology,
geology, topography and anthro-
pology. One of the results obtain
ed by even one department, that of
the biologists. will require eleven
large volumes.
%Stefansson tried a new method on
his exploration trips. ION u jour
neys we took plenty of clothes. scien-
tifc instruments picked up from the
other ships and even books" the ex-
plorer related. I'VE were not par
ticular about food, as we expected to
find it as we went. We picked out
the best meat in the country. We
preferred musk Ok and reindeer,
which is the same as caribou. In
the summer time the best meat is
wolf, for the wolf is very fat in the
summer time. The musk OK and
reindeer are very thin then, and you
need fats. The wolf is very much
like beef; there is no noticeable odor
and no unpleasant taste.
1.-THE most powerful u is the 6h
millimeter NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. re-
chambered by the Gibbs in England,
with velocity of 3,161 feet, which. 1
think, is two or three hundred feet
better than army rifles now in use.
We carried 100 rounds. There are
thirty-three bullets to a pound, and
we have been able to average 1875
pounds of meat to each cartridge.
"A pound of ammunition gives us
two IONS of food. That also means
that you can always take enough
ammunition to carry you three or
four years. If you were to buy meat
for silver dollars it would take about
fifteen times as much silver as it
takes in lead. In fact, lead is bet
ter than checks or bank notes.
Actually travelling with ammunition
served me better than travelling with
lead. A bullet is a check hat is
honored everywhere. There is no
protest"
The explorers lived in snow houses
instead of tents. Four men could
construct such a house in fifty min
utes large enough for six men to
| sleep in, and when it was erected
it was "as cold proof as a thermos
bottle" In the night the tempera-
ture would go down to so degrees
Fahrenheit, but when the oil stove
| warmed up the breakfast dishes the
temperature would rise to 60 and 10
degrees.
Stefansson begins a lecture tour on
his Arctic exploration tonight in
Carnegie Hall. and then will tour the
country. The proceeds will go to the
Red Cross.