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VOL. XXII
ARCTIC EXPLORERS.
XANSEIT WILL THY TO CItOSS THE
XOHTI! I‘OLl',
And Peary Will Go a Good Wavs-Several
Ollier Explunri Preparing: toSiart for
the Icy Regions—V. liat They Say.
Washington, June 9.—The fever for arctic
exploration is beginning to burn again in
mail’s breasts- The records of northern
discovery. show that human effort in this
<lirecti->:i undergoes regular v:i: i itions
through cycles of years with periods of
maximum and minimum intensity like the
.spots i.n the sun and certain epidemics.
There is reason to believe that the
v, >i i-i is entering on one of these maximum
periods of north-pole enthusiasm. Lieuten
ant Peary, scarcely returned from the
iiorthermust point of Greenland, is pre
paring actively to set out with another
expedition in a few weeks. Nansen, the
Norwegian explorer, the man who fii-st
on>.s -d Greenland from east to west, has
alrr:t y sailed for the Behring sea. whence
he v.iii launch forth on a perilous journey
Ciitotigh the ice. Lieutenant Melville, the
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explorer who found the bodies of DeLong
ar 1 his comrades, has a pet scheme for
rea liitig the pole by the way ol Franz
Josef laud, ami is anxious to put it into
execution. Besides these there are various
other polar expeditions planning in var
ious parts of the world.
The -lose of the nineteenth century, thore
fore. will witness a plucky race tor the
pole with brave fellows in the running.
