The New York herald., 1921-07-06
AMUNDSEN IS BACK
With ESKIMO GIRLS
Arrives in Seattle and Tells
the Story of His Long Ma
rooning in Arctic.
RETURNS NEXT YEAR
Too Much to Do for Time to
Think of Death From
Cold or Hunger.
LEARNED A LOT OF TRIBES
Stands by His Ship and Will
Wait Until Tt Is Brought
Out of Ice FlOes.
LEARNED A LOT OF TRIBES

Special Despatch to TIE NEW York HERALD.
SEATTLE. July 5.-Undismayed by the
thousand deaths he has braved in his
last three years in the frozen north,
Capt. Roald Amundsen plans to go
back to the arctic for further explora-
ton This was the message he brought
to Seattle last night when he arrived
from Nome aboard the steamer Vic
toria.
He has already planned his next
expedition and he announced def
initely tonight that he Will go into
the arctic again next summer. AS
he talked in the home Of friend
here he fondled two little Eskimo girls,
members of the Tschuktschi tribe.
whom he has brought to he educated.
No Sundays on in North.
Capt. Amundsen made light Of his
perils and even tried to show that
man can enjoy himself in an icelocked
vessel, hundreds of miles from civiliza-
ton and facing starvation or death
from thc cold.
There was so much to do" he ex-
planned, that we didn't have any time
to think about what might happen the
next minute. In the first place. the
ship had to be looked after far more
carefully than would have been neces-
sary at sea there were charts and
maps to be madS about the currents we
had encountered. and there were other
scientific duties which kept us so busy
that we were never able to think any
farther ahead than the particular task
we had In. hand. We used to plan to
take Sunday Off some time. but we
never had chance to, and We really
did have enough food"
Turning to the scientific nature OF his
expedition. .Amundsen explained that
its purpose lad not been to find out
any particular passage. as he had al
ready. been through both the northwest
and the northeast passage, but to make
soundings and gather magnetic meteoro-
logical data FOR scientific purposes.
1T was cur purpose he said ''to
drift, across the polar basin from west
TO east, studying as we went.
I'VE left Tromoso. Norway. in 1918.
and met win no mishap until we were
caught In the Ice at Cape Chelyuskin
on the Siberian coast. We were held
there for a year, but finally the ice
broke and we resumed our journey.
This time we got as far as the mouth
Of the Kolina River. where we were
icebound again In September. 1919. We
got back to Nome the following year..
when we started out again in
Ausmst, 1920. we found ice conditions so
bad that we broke our propeller and
were forced to abandon our efforts to
continue. We spent the winter at Cape
Gayx51o ~, ha pnrfhna et rorner Of Si-
IBERIA. across from the Gulf of Anadir.
Then we left Maude and went back
over the ice. and finally were picked up
by the Norwegian power schooner Her
mann and taken to Nome"
AS to definite results OF the expedi-
ton, Capt. Amundsen said he had dis
covered no new tribes of natives, but
that he had learned much that had
never been known before about the
tribes In Siberia.
"All Of our data concerning this
region" he said, land Its few inhabi-
tants has been sent home to Norway"
To Use the Same ship.
Capt. Amundsen warmly defended his
ship. the Maud. in spite OF the plight
in which It had left him. and declared
that he would make his trip NEXT year
| in the same vessel.
| one 1S tDe DeSt DOAL IN the world, ~
he declared. ''the Ice is breaking up now
In the mouth of the Ko1ima, and have
crew OF natives. together with tho
three men who have been with me.
standing by waiting to bring her out
AS soon as possible she will. be brought
to Seattle.
She'll be all ready by next summer
and 80 will I. We will make the same
trip as we did this time, covering the
same expanse of water. and will con-
tinue our scientific Investigations This
work, ] estimate. will keep me out from
three TO five years.
Amundsen explained that he would
stay in Seattle this summer.
Tho Maud will be here" ne said
simply. "and the ship and I are always
together"
For all his enthusiasm about his work,
the explorer admitted that it was a
tremendous 'elief to be out OF the artic
for "a breathing spell" Seattle looks
| like Paradise to me-" he said. THE
North-well. there's only one North. but
It's Rrea+ to be In civilization again