New Britain herald., 1930-09-20

was the story of the frog in the three hops for every single hop up- ward and out of his dilemma. Their position August was S2:17 north. 22:43 east, about 60 miles west of their starting point.
 Change Course
 After some consideration they turned here and began a belated journey toward Seven Islands, off Spitzbergen, where there were caches of food and supplies, Their own food was running out. They were on shortened rations and the outlook was bad. They killed some polar bears. which Andree calles wan dering meat shops of the Arctic" and with each successive kill the prospects of the party frightened. There were days when no bears ap- peared and the men went hungry
 During all this travail Andree's interest as a scientist never Jagged. Occasionally from the ice hummocks
 
 bits of moss which had adhered to the ice in the course of its wandering ill the arctic. He saved some 20 of them, taking them along when every ounce must have added con- Siderably to his burden. One of the specimens so taken Andree dried by putting it next to his bare chest. It was his idea that valuable informa- tion as to the ocean drifts might be obtained from these samples.
 As the party slowly approached the cost of Spitzbergen they were given rest periods when from time to time it would be necessary to load their canvas boat and row for a while across the pools of fresh water or on the open ocean between the ice floes. This they found infinitely preferable to the long marches on the ice. Meanwhile they became much more skillful in obtaining fodl. The diary mentions that Frankel became adept at preparing a savory concoction known as a blood pancake" which served them for bread. strindberg's speciality was seaweed.
 With their arrival in the shallow CT waters north of Spitzbergen the drift changed and Andree realized i. would be impossible to reach Seven Islands. Between September 12 and 17 the ice on which they had located drifted 100 kilometers in an east southeast direction and the cold be- came more and more intense.
 Their decision then was to spend the winter on a suitable lice float" and they set to work building what they described as an "Cecot" On September IT they sighted Hvitvoen, which they called New Iceland::" It was the first land they had seen since July Il. The next day they killed their first seal, and the fol- lowing day three more and on Sep tember 20 bear. Andree estimated that as a result of their good for tune there would be food to last un- til the next April.
 The men constructed and moved into a little ice cabin which they called ''The Home" At this point a sudden and irreparable disaster overlook them. The ice floe on which they had chosen to live cracked up with a thunderous roar and separated their stores and sup plies on small chunks of ice. They brought much of it together and looked toward Hvitvoen.
 The diary comes to a sudden end just here with the comment by An dree: With such companions everything will go on all right in al most any circumstances"
 There is no clue as to the end of the men, which of them died first and what brought on death. There IS, in solution of this, only the facts of discovery of their remains, Strindberg's and Frankels laid out as if in a sort of interment. and Andree's own body up against the side of a mountain, as if he lay down there knowing it was where he would die.