The Daily Chronicle has beaten all its competitors in obtaining
early news of Dr. Nausea, and a condensed summary of his journal was published in its second edition oi
this day week, and repeated in its issue of Monday. Yester- day week intelligence was received from Vardoe, in Norway, that Dr. Nansen, who with Johansen had left his ship, the 'Pram,' on March 14th, 1895, under the command of Captain Sverdrup, after nineteen months' voyage (namely, from August 4th, 1893, when he left Jugor Strait, till March 14th, 1895, when he and his companion left the ship), had met last June with Mr. Jackson in Franz Josef Land, and had returned in the 'Windward' to Vardoe, in a wonderfully short and easy passage of only six days. He had not reached the Pole himself, though he had approached more nearly by about two hundred and fifty miles than any other explorer. Still he hoped (though the event disappointed his hope) that the 'Pram,' which was frozen up, would be drifted north-west with the ice to which she was attached, and probably reach the Pole, or come very near it. As a matter of fact, she never reached as high a latitude as Dr. Nansen himself. The vessel had borne the enormous ice pressure to which it had been exposed with almost incredible solidity,—not having shown any sign of in- jurious straining, though on January 4th and 5th, 1895, she had been forced out of her frozen bed by the pressure of the ice under her, and lifted up to a much higher level.
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