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[May 17, 1S94 



dition, although probably not exceeding six, will include 

 trained specialists and collectors, who will map their 

 route, make meteorological and magnetic observations, 

 and collect geological, botanical, and zoological speci- 

 mens. After calling at Archangel, in the end of July, to 

 take on board a Russian log-house, and then at Khaba- 

 rova to ship West Siberian dogs and drivers, the ll'iii I- 

 '^vitrd will proceed to Franz-Josef Land and make a land- 

 ing somewhere in the south of that region, the exact spot 

 depending on the stale of the ice. The route to 



and his companions will spend the winter at their base, 

 where the conditions of life were found to be quite 

 endurable by Mr. Leigh Smith when he was compelled 

 to spend a winter there, with very poor accommodation 

 and equipment, after the wreck of his yacht, the /:'/>■.;, in 

 1S81. Early in the spring of 1895 the expedition would 

 push northward, moving very slowly because of the 

 necessity of traversing the distance several times over 

 in order to carry the quantity of stores necessary to 

 establish a depot every thirty or forty miles along the 



ir«lkrr O- S.'illa 



Norlh Pol.ir M.ip lo illuslr.ilc projetlcd I'oUi Expcclilions. 



Fran7-Jo5ef Land will thus be due norlh from near Kol- 

 gueff Island, instead of northeastward from Norway 

 as shown on the map. The wooden house will 

 be erected on a secure and sheltered site, and 

 stocked with the necessary stores for four years, after 

 -which the ship will return. If, as seems possible from 

 Payer's- observations, Austria Sound should be found 

 open, provisions will be carried norlh along it in a sleam- 

 iaunch and cached for subsequent use. .Mr. Jackson 



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route. This slow progress will, of course, give an oppor- 

 tunity for repeating observations for position, and so 

 add to the accuracy of the map. The dircctioii 

 of advance will probably be along Austria Soun. 

 and across I'elctmann Land, the farthest north sighlcl 

 by Payer in the Austro- Hungarian expedition, and lying 

 in 83* N. Should Petermnnn Land extend to the north, 

 Mr. Jackson intends lo proceed along it, mapping his 

 route as he goes. Uoats would be carried for crossing 



