Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-23
BOOKS HOLD FACTS
GARgTG.IRkGEp'Y|'.
Balloon Log and Diary Ex'
lsected to Reveal Data on
1897 Explorers.
-. q. 81,



OSLO, Norway, August 2S.-The long
n1ystery OF their fste cleared, the bodies
Of three men who 80 years ago tried
TO. ~ across the North Pole in bal
loon today were on the way home to
such posthiimona hcnors rs their nation
andsthe w0Tldf may bestow, ia
The bodies III Solomon Auguste
Andree. Swedish explorer, and his two
companions, Knut Frankel and Nils
stsindberg, were found August on
wetian Arctic expedition headed by Dr.
The small sealing vessel Braftvaag.
with their bodies, together with relics
Of stlaeir last camp on the Ice, Is ex-
pected to reach Tromsoe, northerly
Norwegian port, about September 10.
Meanwhile further news Of the expe-
dition's tdiEcovefy Is not obtainable,
since the Brattvaag; has no wireless.
Two Books Found.
Two books aboard the Brattvaag are
expected here to tell the complete. story
Of the first5attempt to cross .he Pole by
air, what brought the balloon down and
of those long days of starvation there
after when death claimed first one OF
the strio, then . second and finally the
third
One of these books is the balloons
log. In which,. although the book was
not opened completely, could be seen
an entry Of July IL, 1897, seven days
after the start at the flight from Danes
Island, Spftzbergen, reading ssS3 de-
greess NJ, "a e. The position. would
indicate the balloon reached q. point
farther north even than White Island,
which is between Spitzbergen and
Tridtjof Nansen Land.
Il rxfs ,lycs Ia a
sonal dairy of Andree, In which the
entries are believed to be complete up
almost to the hour Of his death. Both
log and diary were frozen still with ice.
Lest the pages be broken or the docu-
ments otherwise damaged, no attempts
were made To- open thera-. 81 4 ss.s:..ss.ss :. !.
Other relies Of the expedition aboard
the BrattyaaG include two sledges. one
boat, harpoon, cooking apparatus and
other untensils. No trace was found OF
either o tent which the party must
have had.scR of the balloon itself. Two
Of the bodies. including that OF Andree,
were perfectly preserved: the third,
which had been partially sheltered from
the ice In the small boat, had dete-
Tiarated.
Had Lived Some Time.
There were indications that the three
Ing forced down on the ice. They had
food enough aboard the balloon for six
months, and the remains of o polar
bear found at the camp site indicated
they may have added fresh meat to
their diet. After death OF the three
SNOW and ice covered the bodies and
the camp site Other parties landing
from boats there or nearby In the sue
ceeding years never sensed, the sigrf-
ficance of the spot.
DR.. Horn believed his own expedition
might have passed the spot byssfnilariy
except that by some freak of the
weather considerable Of the Ice In the
locality had melted recently. uncorerin8
the bodies. His expedition landed near
the camp site August 6, and discovered
the remains two days later. They built
o cairn to mark the spot before leav-
ing 1t.
information as to the discovery,
which solved one Of the long inn
penetrable mysteries Of the polar world
was brought from the North by the
seaier Terningen. The Terningen's
captain was hailed by the Brattvaag's
master, who asked him, since he himself
had no wireless. to broadcast the news.
RECALLS % YEARS PROGRESS.