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In 1802, however, Baffin came very near being outdone by a young Swedish botanist, Bjorling, who almost reached the same point in a still smaller ship, and with a crew of only five. As it is, the palm of success still rests with the old navigator, for his young rival at the present moment either lies dead on the threshold of his suc- cess, or is engaged in a life-and-death struggle with cold and starvation on the edge of the land he sought to explore; and he will have to deem himseif happy if the American expedition under Robert Stein relieves him next May. The history of the Bjorling expedition was Prof. A. E. Nordenskiold, the famous cir- cumnavigator of Asia, in a lecture before the Society of Anthropology and Geography of Stocholm, December 15, 188, and print- ed in the society’s periodical, Ymer. From this it appears that Bjorling’s aims were far more ambitious than might have been inferred from the newspaper accounts. His plans ure thus descriped in his application for the Vega stipend ‘The Explorer's Pla: “I intend to leave Stockholm in the be- ginning of May for St. John’s, and thence to sali either with a whaling steamer or in a hired vessel along the West Green- land coast past Cape York to some place on Ellesmere Land, as close as possible to Cape Sabine. Under ordinary circumstances I ought to arrive there about midsummer. During the two and a half months follow- ing I shali undertake a.trip with sledge and boat along Ellesmere Land and through Hayes Sound, in the direction of Victoria archipelago or North Kent. That region, which is entirely unknown, from a geographic point of view, presents an un. usually rich field for botanical investiga- tions, being the connecting link between Arcite North America and Greenland. As regards the return voyage, if it is to be made on a steam whaler, I shall have to meet one of these vessels at Cape Warren- der on North Devon, in Lancaster Sound; if I go in a hired vessel I shall have to re- turn to the point on Ellesmere Land where I left the vessel. “As regards my chances of making this trip of 60 miies in seventy-five days, I may mention that in the summer of 1891, under very unfavorable circumstances, I made #0 miles in sixteen days, in the ice mg the West Greenland coast. During my stay in Arctic North America I shall, of course, ake as large collections of ry objects as possible, and I out that while Swedish expedi- sited the whole poiar region Greenland eastward to Bering strait, not a single Swedish expedition has OF WASHINGTON: Commencing MONDAY, February 5, the Ralston School of Physical Culture of Martyn College will inaugurate a special private class for ladies only, to months, or twelve Weeks and | twenty-four lessons, presenting an elaborate and course of physical culture on a scale heve* before attempted in Washington. Indorsed made adequately known only recently by | 1894—TWELVE PAGES 42, We have determined stock at All garments are of cloths at Popular Shopping Place, 416 SEVENTH STREET. MISSES’, and CHILDREN’S garment in our Actual Half Marked Prices In order to make room for spring merchandise. Nothing Is Reserved. | ture, comprising BLACKS, NAVIES, BROWNS, TANS, &c., Braided, Fur Trimmed or Plain. Here’s How They Go: $5.00 Coats, $6.00 Coats, $7.50 Coats, $8.00 Coats, $10.90 Coats, $12.00 Coats, $15.00 Coats, $20.00 Coats, $25.00 Coats, Also Half Tlarked Prices. AUM’ Popular Shopping Place, 416 SEVENTH STREET. to sell every LADIES’, a S this season’s manufac- $2.50. TO ADVERTISERS. AGvertisers are urgently re- quested to hand tn advertisements the day prior to publication, in order that insertion may be as- sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day of publication, precedence being given to those first received, to winter there. But, after reaching North- umberland Island, I was obliged by several circumstances to return to the Cary Islands, Having been obliged by bad weather to spend some time on this island, I am now Starting to meet the Eskimos at Clarence head or Cape Faraday on Ellesmere Land. In the hope that a whaler will next year visit the Cary Islands to relieve me and my men, I shall try to reach those be- fore the Ist of July. If no whaler appears | before the 15th of July, I shall be obliged, if | possible, colonies. to go to the Danish Hence, if you visit this island later than July 1 and do not find any information re- garding my departure for the Danish colo- | nies, I shall be greatly obliged to you if you will go to Clarence head (fifty miles from here), where I will erect a ‘cairn’ on the | easternmost point and in it deposit informa- tion regarding the fortunes of myself and my men during the winter. Finally, I re- quest that you send all information concerns ing myself to Prof. Nordensktold in Stock- holm, or to the nearest Swedish consul, to- gether with a statement as to time when and place where ic was found. Uniess I reach the Eskimos, our provisions wiil not last longer than the Ist of Jaquary, suppos- ing that I do not succeed in increasing them from some depot of provisions. We are now five men, one of whom is dying.” Here the letter closes. It is dated October 12, 1892. Capt. McKay at once headed for Ellesmere Land, but the ice prevented his approach ia the limited time at his disposal. No further news has been received. The first feeling produced by the reading of this account is astonishment at the young explorer’s in- credible boldness ani tenacity of purpose, | With a vessel which every one else as unseaworthy, he pushes into the tice of Davis strait and the still more dreaded Mel- ville bay, till, having entered the “north- water,” which is nearly always free from ice, he seems to be on the point of crowning his work with the most brilliant success, All at once his vessel is jost by an accident such as happeas occasionally in the busiest of ports. One would think that his only endeavor would be to save his Jife. Instead of this, it seems nearly certain that | his main object still was to continue the expedition. In this way only can it be plained why he turned back from the Green- ; land shore, where he knew he should meet ‘imos, and why he made for Clarence head, concerning which he had but the vaguest reports. The reason was that Clar- ence head was on Ellesmere Land,and Elies- | mere Land was tne object of his ei tion, To hold on to one’s purpose in the face of death argues cvurage which, however it jmay savor cf rashnees, cannot but call forth the highest admiration. There is a surprising resemblance be- == I ES] yet visited fhe North American archipelago. ‘The return from the northern part of Baf- ginning of September.” Indorsed by the Great Explorer. In the opinion of Prof. Nordenskiold this plan contains nothing that is impractica- ble. As a rule, Ellesmere Land can be reached without difficulty, nor would there be any great obstacle to an advance into the interior, though, perhaps, not as far as Bjorling intended. Bjorling was no novice in Arctic travel. In 1890 he visited the flords on the west coast of Spitzbergen and the northwestern part of that island. At that time he was still a student, but had been trained for such work by excursions in the mountains of Scandinavia. His next voyage was made to the west coast of Greenland. With a trading vessel he reached the northernmost of the Danish col- onies, and thence in a boat rowed by Eski- mos he penetrated northward as far as Devil's Thumb. ‘Then came his last voyage. In the spring of 1892 he went to St. John’s by way of Liverpool. Whereas, in his first Greenland voyage he had been alone, he was now accompanied by a young zoologist, Evald Kallstenius, Bjorling nimself being by pro- fession a botanist. The means at his dis- posal, mostly private contributions, were very slender, but it was known that he had a knack of making most out of small funds. Thus his first Greenland voyage cost in all not more than a round trip ticket from Stockholm to New York. Arrived at St. John’s, he found that he was too late to take any whaling steamer. The sum at his disposal for the purchase or hire ofa vessel was only $600 to $700. Finding no owner willing to hire out his vessel, he finally decided to purchase for $650 the schooner Ripple of thirty-seven tons. The vessel being generally regarded as unsea- worthy, and the pay he offered being small, he found it almost impossible to get a crew. Finally he succeeded in securing a Dagish helmsman, Kar! Kann, as captain. According to a statement in a Canadian newspaper, the rest of the crew consisted only of two men, an Englishman, Gilbert Dunn, acting as helmsman, and Herbert MeDonald, from Prince Edward Island, as cook. More accurate details concernin= the meh cannot be obtained, the papers relating thereto having been destroyed by the great fire which visited St. John’s. In his last letter, Bjorling states that his crew consisted of three men, all from Europe. His letter is as follow: In Spite of Discouragem “On June 1, I reached Newfoundland, where I purchase? a vessel. I did not se- cure a crew till the 22d of June, for the reason that everybody told the sailors that my vessel was altogether unseaworthy and would founder in sight of Newfound- land. As a consequence, I did not get more than three men, ail from Europe. That I was not mistaken in the quality of my vesse] appears from the fact that in ten days 1 penetrated through the extremely difficult West Greenland pack ice, which, for the first time in one hundred years, had tilled the lower part of Davis strait, and ieft only a very narrow lead along Raffin Land. i was told that it had taken the Greenland trading vessels moaths to get through. In Godthaab and Upernivik the winter had been uncommonly mild, the temperature at the former place not de- scending below 2S degrees, so that it Is thought that the northern’ part of Baffin bay is free from ice. Near Cape Walsing- ham on Baffin Land, which I sighted on Jaly 34, I did not find a trace of ice. This is most unusual, and T shall thereby be enabied, on my voyage to Smith Sound, to go straight over to Lancaster Sound and thence steer northward. If obliged to win- ter, I shali take refuge with the Eskimos in North Greenland or with the Danes on the west coast. If TI cannot return this year I request that whaler; the Cary y fin bay is intended to be made in the be- | Visit the summit of the highest island and | 1s93. be asked that when they go past lands, as they usually do, thy obtain the documents which I intend to de- posit there.” | According to a letter from Kallstenius, |Godthaab was reached on July 28, and was \left behind on August 3. Mr. Jorgensen, | governor of the colony, states that Bjorling there purchased a shotgun and a rifle with e necessary ammunition, as well as some | provisions, clothing, &c., and a good boat. He also carried good scientific instruments, in part loaned by scienjific institutions of | Stockholm. He also seems to have had a | sufficient store of winte} clothing, but his | provisions were not sufficient for winter- \ing. His last letter arrived more than a year ago. Autumn passed away, and the last Greenlaad vessel reached Copenhagen, {but without news from the expedition. As. however, it might have reached the Dan- | ish colonies after the departure of the last vessel, and as Bjorling had indicated the | Possibility of wintering. no great alarm | was felt. The Swedish foreign office, | ever, took energetic; measures in order to obtair information concernirg the explorers. i It requested the whalers to visit the Cary |Islands. to obtain the documents referred to by Bjorling, and: it also asked Peary, | Who was about to start on his second trip, to keep a lookort .for any traces of the |missing Swedes. Peary had met RBjorling linear Godthaab on his outward trip, but j Seen nothing of him on his return, The Wrecked Veusci. At last, on November 14, gram from Dundee brought the first news. About the middie of June last the watch in the crow's nest of the whaler Ayrora, Capt. McKay, passing near the most south. easterly of the Cary Islands, discovered near that island an object looking like a wreck. A boat was immediately lowered and rowed over. The schooner Ripple was found lying on th. shore, almost buried in lice. Not far away was found a Pile of | Stones, containing the body of a man. Near | by was a large mound, probably the “cairn” left there by Nares. ‘In this was found a tin can, containing four open letters writ- |ten by Bijorling, and a sealed letter ad- | dressed to a person at St. John’s. Although ; the vessel lay cast up on the shore, it was several feet thick. All around were found books, articles of clothing. &c., which were jall packed in a box, obtained from the wreck. This box arrived in Stockholm, but | fontained nothing that could give additional The open communications consisted of three visiting cards and a letter. One of the cards contained a request addressed to one of the Peary party to transmit the accom- panying letter to a certain person in St. , John’s. This was written in ink. So was the other visiting card, which stated that Bjorling visited the Cary Isiands on August 16, 1892. having left Godthaab on August 2 and sailed along the ice in Baffin bay til the dreaded Melville bay. This Seems to indicate that the Ripple was not quite so | frail as had been thousht. From Cape York | the vessel had been driven by a storm as | far as Cape Parry, whence they had sailed for the Cary Islands. On the last named card there is an addition in pencil, dated August 17, that is, the day after their ar- | rival on the islands. In it Bjorling states that the schooner had run aground after the | provisions from Nares’ depot had been put jon board. A third card states that a trip | by boat was undertaken northward with the |intention of reaching Foulke fiord; that | further information would be deposited in | Pandora harbor, and that their provisions, | with the additions from the English depot, | would last till June, 18%. The last and most detailed communication is written in | pencil on a little sheet of letter paper. It reads thus: Still Undaunted. “As you will learn from my communica- tions here deposited, I tried, after the loss ow | 1898, a tele- | | not Possible to get into it, because the | | deck was covered with ice in some places | the 13th, when he passed in one day through | tween this exploit and the career of an: | other Swede, Charles XII. In both cases @ youth hardly beyond boy's age is at once to display the full attribu superb manhood. There is the 5 & ® i i = {insight into the problem t» be solved, the same care and sagecity in planning, the same fertility of resource, the same grasp of detail, the same rapidity of action, the | same contempt of obstacles; but also the | same overweening self-confidence which | Scorns to count enemies and prompts the undertaking of the most gigantic tasks | with the slenderest me: The result is at first almost miraculous success, and in | the end a disastrous catastrophe. Let it be hoped that the latest counterpart of Sweden's great king may not yet have | found his Frederikshaid. Are the Explorers Alive? The question now arises: Is there any ground for hope that the daring explorers may still be alive? Looking at all the facts | calmly, one must conclude that the chances of their surviving are decidedly good. They | had two rifles, a shotgun, and considerable ammunition. With these, a man of Bjor- _ling’s indomitable courage and fertility of | expedients would almost certainly be able’ | to maintain himself in a land which, ac- | cording to ali accounts, is rich tn antmal life. As far back as 1616 Baffin reported }a multitude of wairus near the entrance of Jones’ sound. The western part-of that’ sound is stated by Eskimos to remain open all the year round, and to abound in seals | a statement which is confirmed May 2, a few miles farther west. The | Eskimo name for Eilesmere Land ts Musk-. | ox Land, these animals, together with rein | deer,being reported as very 2bundant there, | by the concurrent testimony of the Eski-. mos on the south andson the east. The. west coast is said to be so infested with polar bears that the Eskimos do not vent- ure to go there—a sign of the abundance of seals, on which the bears feed. That there are Eskimos living on Ellesmere | Land is almost certain from the reports of the Polaris expedition. The gravest cause of apprehension les. in the fact that none of the whalers who hunted near the mouth of Jones’ sound im found any trace of the expedition | later than the letters referred to. If Bjor- |ling was near Clarence Head, ki that | the whalers were within a few of | him, he would certainly have made an ef~ fort to communicate with them. The only | explanation of his silence is that he may, have lost his boat, and that the Eskimo ‘boats were not large or stout enough to leave the shore. Or might it be possible | that the daring son of the Vikings, having at last, despite the deadliest peril, set foot on the land he came to explore, was mot |content to leave it without having traced | its uttermost confines, and that he is actu-— lally fighting his way through and torm and ice along the western shore? Be that as it may, it is a comfort to, know that a party of Americans under the leadership of Mr. Robert Stein of the United States geological survey are pre~ paring to do all that human power can do to rescue the unfortunate Swedes, and at the same time to establish at the mouth of ones’ sound a permanent station which will render the recurrence of a similar @is- aster to whalers and to explorers practice ally impossible. No amount of risk or ob= loquy will ever stop arctic exploration till all the remaining mysteries are solved. Though the world may call the ; rash adventurers. yet its pity will invari- ably be aroused by their misfortunes, ‘for | there is nothing so fascinating as bravery. Humanity will breathe more freely there- | fore, when it is known that at the main gateway of the arctic, at the vestibule of \the mysterious unknown area, there is @ | well-provisioned permanent camp. can be reached by any shipwrecked party | within a radius of at least 200 miles. To maintain this camp Will probably cost ess ‘than $1,000 a year. | “The wonder is,” says Lieut. Brainard, hat so simple and inexpensive a measure was not thought of long ago.” More fortu- nate than Bjorling, Mr. Stein has already ‘obtained from one whaling firm the promise of transvortation to the mouth of Jones sound. Sufficient funds have already been subscribed to start the expedition on @ str scale. In order, however, to make ‘ch for the lost party as thorough as possible, a larger organization will be needed, requiring at least $15,000. Objects those named above—the 20 practical as rescue of four human beings, the establish- ment of a permanent station to prevent | any future disaster, and a series of obser- | vations on meteorology, magnetism.gravity, tides and currents, ail of the highest im- portance to the navigator and surveyor— these, it is thought, ought to suffice to se= cure such support as will render ft certain that the exp nm will lack nothing that. | can insure its success. j ——— ‘The Late Helen A. Shafer. Helen Shafer, president of Wellesley” College, whose death was announced im Saturday's Siar, was born in Newark, N. J. | September 23, i Her father was @ | clergyman of the Congregational denomt- ination. The family moved westward, an@ ‘tor many years lived in Oberlin, Ohio, where | the home is still maintained. Miss Shafer : was graduated from Oberlin College in 1863. l After teaching two years in New Jersey | she accepted a position in the high school lof St. Louis, Mo. In this school she held | the position of leading instructor of mathe- | matics for ten years, laying the foundation ‘of a distinguished career as a teacher of |the higher mathematics. In 1877 she was called to the chair of mathematics in Wel- lesley College, which she held until 1s%8, when she su Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer _as president. i in IS7S Miss Shafer received the degree of M. A. from Oberlin College, and in 1898 the degree of LL.D. — tee Pure food exposition every afternoon an@ evening at Convention Halil. Doors open at 2 p.m. and close at 10:30 p.m. Cook lectures Advi. the of my vessel, to reach Foulke fiord, in order) at 3:30.