The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-09-02
Sealer Brings Re-
mains Of .Andree
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ton, seeking drinking water on the
bleak island. discovered a boat and
boat hook which once belonged to the
.-.tree expedition. They began an
investigation which ended in dlscov-
cry of the headlesS clothed skeleton
Of Andres, the clothed skeleton of n
OF his companions, and of a group of
bones which may be those of tht third
member of the party.
Andree's body. sitting. with a foot
encaSed in ice and q rifle and oil
stove by his side. was found neal che
base Of a mountain. A skull nearby
evidently was Andree's. The body
had greatly d~eteriorated and was not
much more than a skeleton clothed in
arctic apparel, in the pocket Of which
was found q monogram by which it
was identified. The teeth Of the
other skeleton. found nearby. partly
covered with stones. may solve wheth-
er it Is Nils Strindberg or Knut Fran
KEEL, the other member of the party
Today. nearly a month after the
discovery DR.. Horn and his associates
are anchored in the small harboi here
awaiting the Swedish ~oattlestip
Michael Sars, which will accompany
1t to Tromsoe. nearby. and later to
Sweden where the remains will be
honored in death and their discover
ers meted the praise OF fellow Scam
dinavians.
Captain Shows Relics
Dramatically the little sealer Brat
vaag sailed into Hasvik Sunday after
a search by Swedish official vessels
and news expeditions which covered
a wide area Of the north seas. DR.
Horn there notified the authorities
officially of his discovery. news Of
which had already reached the world
through the captain of the sealer
Terningen. Then. without awaiting
an answer he took the sealer to
Skjaer Island to await the Michael
Sars.
He sat with Odd Arnessen, CORE
spondent for The Associated Press
and the Olso Afterposten. in rhe
ships cabin, with some Of the relics
of the Andree expedition In front of
him. and told the story Of his discov-
cry, and. from his deductions. the
story Of the las. days of the three
men who in 1897 thought to fly a
balloon across tie north pole, as yet
undiscovered.
The Bratvaag, Or. Horn said, left
Tromsoe. July 80. intending to visit
Franz Joseph land (now Fridtjof
Nansen land) where the scientific ex-
petition could make observations
while the sealer's crew hunted wal
rus, seals. whales and ice bears. White
Island was sighted August S. twelve
miles west Of its mapped position, and
the next day the expedition put in
there, able for once to do SO because
Of the quiet sea.
Name on Coat
DR.. Horn spoke of the vast silence
Of. the place, made all the more i'm
pressive with occasional breaking of
the ice, and the plump of snow fall
ing from q hilly perch.
The next day. August 6, two of the
crew of the vessel were searching for
drinking water when they noticed a
clump of snow and upon inveStiga-
ton found 1t to contain ruins of an
old boat. A boat = hook, protruding,
bore the name "Andree Polar Expedi-
ton, 1897"
The two harpooners notified others
of their discovery. Skipper Eliassen
realized the import of the discovery
and brought with him a book he mad
found with the body, which DR.. Horn
recognized as the Andree expeditions
observation book, in which entries
and notes of the journey were jotted
down.
DR.. Horn. returning with. Captain
Eliassen, found not only Andree'S
body, identified by a monogram on
his arctic suit, but a sledge, a piece of
red and black cloth which may have
served for a tent, and other Of the
paraphernalia Of the camp. Andree's
body was fully clothed except Tor
shoes, which were worn almost
through.
In Andree's pocket were a diary, a
pencil, and a pedometer. Between
two mounds of earth and partly COW
cred with stones, not far away, the
body Of another member Of the expe-
dition. was found. The body appar-
emily had been laid there by the
others. It was frozen down and
hard to get out. In the old boat were
found some bones, but DR.. Horn was
unable to decide whether they were
human bones.
Had Used Sledge
In the boat also were found other
things belonging to the expedition,
instruments, stockings, handkerchiefs
two Of which bore the initials IN.
g." (Nils NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
apparatus, and a bag Of books. The
boat, the men discovered when they
sought to dig it out, was fastened to
a sledge, the runners Of which were
worn badly as If indicating a long
trip to reach the spot.
The bodies and remains Of the ex-
petition were packed into the Brat
vaag's boats and taken back to the
sealer where a depository was con-
structed on the after deck. Before
leaving the site DR.. Horn and his
(companions constructed a cairn over
the spot where they made their dis
covery. In the cairn they placed a
note In Norwegian and English ex-
planning what they had found there.
DR.. Horn believed the balloon expe-
dition, which left Danes Island in
July, 1897, met failure when ice and
snou, tho halloon dnWn and