Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
HORNS own STORY
| OFFENDING FINDING ANDREE
Snow Mound Near ,WaIrus
Hunt Yields First Trace
of Explorers.
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VI EAplUfcIS.
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the zoologist, Adolf Sorensen, and my
self as leader of the expedition.
On our way into the beach we saw a
school OF walrus playing about in the
sea-. and the outlook for a good catch
helped to put us in a good humor.
Tedious Landscape Broken.
We landed and were soon on our way
inland across the naked island. On it
were mountains of granite and gneis
Between them were stretches of gravel
and sand. Only a shallow little lake
broke the tediouSness of the landscape.
color here and there. Otherwise vege-
tation was very sparse. There were the
usual polar flowers about.
We worked through the evening In
the northwest part of the fiat land, and
went on board again in the early
morning.
On August 6 we had the same mar
velous weather, with brilliant sunshine
and cloudlesS sky. The ocean was
peninsulas round about were stranded
lcebergs.
White Islands great ice peak rose
majestically from the low coast land.
EVERYWHERE reigned an intense ST.
lence. DUST once in a while we could
hear the noise of ice breaking away
from parent iceberg and splashing
into the sea.
In truth, there was a great white
silence everywhere; and it was inpos-
sible not to feel a little affected by
such a deathlike stiffness. The noise
of the falling ice emphasized the depth
of the silence. :.
In the morning the Bratvaag's two
hunting boats, under the leadership OF
the shooters Ole Myklebush and SEVERN
-Skjelten, went out to harpoon walruses.
Ultimately Skjelten and the harpoon-
ers, Karl Tusvik, Olaf Salem, Johan
Almestad and Sigurd Myklebust, went
ashore to skin their catch.
Mound Of Snow Unusual.
Salem and Tusvik went to search for
drinking water and discovered q little
stream. Beside the stream they found
a mound of snow that was rather dark
and did not resemble the ordinary
snow hill. They went over to it at
once and saw q boat sticking up from
the snow"
In the boat they caught sight of the
point Of .boatswain's hook, with a
name engraved on 1t. The two men
at once ran back to Skjelten and told
him about their find, showing him the
hook.
on it was engraved "Andree's Polar
Expedition, 1885," Skjelten, Almestad
and Myklebust then went to the mound
and in the boat they further found a
book, which they took with them to
the beach.
At this Il 0ment the Bratvaag's mo-
tor boat, with Skipper Eliassen and
Assistant Mechanic Ekornaasvaag
aboard, arrived to help the hunters
with their walrIls catch.
Eliassen was Immediately informed
about the discovery, and he went alone
to investigate 1t further.
Against the wall Of q neighboring
mountain he found a body leaning
against the mountain slope with its
feet half buried in snow.
Eliassen realized at once that this
must be the remains of the Andree
expedition. He Immediately returned
to the Bratvaag.. where I was. He
showed me the book and saw imme-
diately that It was the Andree expedi-
toms observation book, containing rec
ords of their sledge journey after they
left the balloon.
~ E Actual Recovery Work.
We took different Implements on
board the motor boat, and then all the
expeditions members went ashore to
try as best we could to dig everything
out and then transport it on board.
It was with strange feelings that We
stood on the beach where the brave
Andree and his men 80 years ago ended
their last polar wandering. In deep
silence we went up toward the camp,
xuhioh OT1lu too TNlainIU Sh0Wad llS what
had happened.
There lay the boat half buried in
snoy, with its nose pointing inland.
Alongside 1t lay sledge. The top of
the sledge was level with the ice. On
the snow a few yards away was a piece
Of black and red cloth, with crude
squares cut in for windows-perhaps
part of tent-and under the wall
of the mountain was Andree himself.
We recognized him only by the mon
ogram on his jacket. He was leaning
northeast of the boat. He had worm
out Arctic shoes on his feet, but other
wise was well clothed.
Beside him lay a gun and an oil
stove, there was oil in the stove, and
when we pumped 1t, the oil came out
in a fine spray and gas came out ct
a vent on the side. The apparatus
was quite in good order.
Diary In Inner Pocket,
In Andree's inner pocket was his
diary, but only few pages appeared
to have been written on. We also found
IN his pocket his pencil and q pedom-
eter.
Between two mounds of earth q short
distance away from Andree's body we
found a little later another member of
11n Ter
been laid there by one of the others.
The body was half covered with small
stones. It was frozen down" and very
hard to get up.
We also found in the boat 169 re-
mains OF bones, but we have not been
able to decide whether they are human
bones. Some other articles were found
at different places In the camp and
carefully gathered up.
Upon examining the boat closer we
found many different things. These
were the expeditions equipment of all
kinds. There were articles of clothing
| such as stockings and. handkerchiefs,
an instrument for measuring the veloc-
ity Of the wind, Photographic appara-
tuS. Shotguns, Theodolite, sewing
| articles, hammer and an AK, and a
bag containing navigation books and
other things.
On two of the handkerchiefs was the
monogram IN. S." (Nils Strindberg).
AS said before, the boat lay partly
buried In the ice and was half full of
ice.
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