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After pushing north for over 200 miles very severe weather 
compelled him to return. The temperature at times was 40° to 60° 
below zero. The sledges had to be abandoned, and only twenty- 
six dogs out of the ninety taken with him returned alive. 
Professor Chamberlin accompanied the expedition, and the 
publication of his observations on Greenland glaciers is being 
eagerly awaited by geologists in all parts of the world. 
Mr. Walter Wellman, a journalist of Washington, attempted 
last year to attain a high northern latitude, north of Spitzbergen. 
He took with him aluminium boats, made at Baltimore, weighing 
about 450 lbs. each, 18 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 2 ft. deep, capable 
of carrying nineteen men. The aluminium plates were riveted 
together Clinker fashion, being only one-tenth of an inch thick. 
Ash runners were fitted on to the bottom of the boat, so that it 
could be used as a sledge. Wellman's expedition failed in its 
attempt, so far as the attaining of a high northern latitude was 
concerned. Four days after he had left his ship (the Ragnvald 
Jarl) on his journey across the snow, she was crushed by ice, and 
only some of the stores were saved. Wellman and his party, after 
making some interesting geographical explorations, returned to 
, Tromsoe on August 15th, 1894. 
An English expedition, known as the Jack son- Harms worth 
expedition, was fitted out last year at the private expense of Mr. 
A. C. Harmsworth, for Arctic exploration. Mr. T. G. Jackson 
sailed from the Thames on July 11th, 1894, in the Windward, a 
wooden steamship of 321 tons. She is barque-rigged, and 
strongly fortified for ice-work. He has taken a whaling boat, 
a copper boat with collapsible canvas gunwales altogether- 
weighing less than 200 lbs., a light boat of Norwegian pine and 
an aluminium boat built in three sections, with a duplicate of the 
middle section, and a birch bark canoe, together with sledges and 
twenty-four pairs of ski in lieu of snow-shoes. He takes a 
number of scientific instruments, travelling tents, sledges, four 
ponies and thirty dogs. It is hoped that scurvy, the bane of 
Arctic explorers, will be avoided by the frequent use of fresh 
meat, of which large supplies have been taken. A series of 
