Two Timely Portraits 
A Recent Painting of Roald Amundsen by the Norwegian Artist, 
Eivind Engebretsen 
Captain Roald Amundsen expects to start June 1 from Seattle to resume 
his interrupted trip to the North Pole. The explorer in his attempt to 
reach the North Pole has not had the good fortune which always smiled 
on his previous ventures. The ice conditions encountered were the worst 
ever known in those regions, and finally the propeller of the Maud was 
broken and the expedition was compelled to return after three years of 
hardship in the ice. Nothing daunted, Captain Amundsen, who next month 
will be fifty years old, sets out again, although he has abandoned the original 
route east of the New Siberian islands, and will go by the longer route past 
Wrangel island, which may consume four or five or even seven years. This 
time he takes an airplane, in part the gift of the inventor and manufacturer, 
John Larsen, with which he expects to take short exploration trips along the 
way. It is commanded by Lieutenant Oscar Omdal of the Norwegian navy. 
The captain also takes a wireless telegraph, by means of which he will be in 
constant communication with the Stavanger Radio. 
