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...wanderings his odyssey started at Irkutsk where he was employed as a locksmith on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A chance meeting with two political prisoners who had escaped across northern Siberia made up Author Welzl's mind. That spring he bought a horse and cart, made tracks for the Arctic Ocean alone. Too uneducated to follow maps he followed his nose, and the rivers flowing north...
...winters Traveler Welzl hibernated on the way. At one settlement coquettish women made advances by biting their larger fleas in two, swallowing one half, tossing the other half at him. At last he reached the Arctic tundra, exchanged his horse and cart for reindeers and sledge. Reaching the Bear Islands he stayed there with Eskimos until a whaler came by, took off to the waters north of Novaya Zemlya, "where the ocean flowed like a huge river among the icebergs...
...wall of the Explorers Club in upper Manhattan is a painting, done in the 'Arctic, of the late Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) examining a meteorite. The canvas came from a pair of the North Pole discoverer's brown pants. The artist was Albert Operti, a Peary companion on two Polar trips. Particularly interested in that painting is Josephine Diebitsch Peary, the widow, first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition. She lives at South Harpswell, Me. Next month her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Stafford, who was born "farther north than any other white person...
...longer a member or a visitor to the Explorers Club is Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, from whose Arctic Club the Explorers Club evolved.* A venerable member is Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, 88, whose expedition to set up a U. S. meteorological base for the first (1881) Polar Year was lost and, save for seven men, destroyed by the Arctic...
...industries and religious rites of different peoples, varying in character from Eskimos in Arctic regions to the black races of Central Africa, are subjects for the films now being used by Professor Tozzer to illustrate Anthropology A. Among the notable scenes are those depicting the ceremony of milking the sacred cows of a negro tribe in the Dark Continent, and Eskimos constructing their igloos...