A letter from Mr. Ernest a F. James, who accompanied
the fleet of small ships which sailed last summer for the Yenesei with rails for the Siberian railway, was published in Monday's Times, giving very satisfactory accounts of the state of the Kara Sea, which Dr. Nansen's expedition would have to cross, and expressing a conviction that at least in that part of the expedition Dr. Nansen would meet with no sort of difficulty. The Times also points out that Dr. Nansen had written to a Russian Admiral, approving of an attempt to communicate with him in 1894 in Franz Josef Land or any land in the same parallel farther east, and promising that if he struck any part of that land, he would erect cairns of stones and surmount them with a flag, giving information of his where- abouts and his plans. It is extremely likely that Dr. Nansen's expedition will generate various relief expeditions intended to supply him with food and with encouragement from home. Adventurous enterprises of this nature never come alone ;- enterprise breeds enterprise.
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