* * * * The Andrea Polar Expedition
Further discoveries since we wrote last week have thrown a new light on the fate of Andree and his com- panions who, with their balloon, disappeared thirty-three years ago. The first examination of Andree's camp by the Norwegian expedition under Dr. Gunnar Horn was hurried, and it was not until the arrival of a relief ship that the continued thaw enabled a fresh party to make a closer investigation. It was then seen that the body of the third member of Andree's expedition, Frankel, was in the camp not far from where the bodies of Andree and Strindberg had been found. The theory that Frankel had perished during the journey on floating ice thus fell to the ground. It also became evident that the party had not died from starvation. There were unopened tins of food, and the ammunition had not all been used. As game was by no means absent the three men—so we gather from the account in the Times—could have con-
tinued to live for a considerable time, if not indefinitely, had they not been overcome by exhaustion or had they not
been imprisoned by ice. The diaries which are being deciphered will probably give a-complete narrative of a most remarkable journey from the point where the balloon
descended to White Island. And enough is already known to indicate a degree of endurance, courage, and coolness which has not often been equalled even in Polar Exploration.
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