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...musk ox stands 5 ft. tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches...
...visiting White Island off Spitzbergen last month and discovering the 33-year-lost remains of Explorer Salomon August Andrée & comrades (TIME, Sept. 1), an airplane full of Canadians flew northeast from Copper Mine in the Northwest Territories to King William Island on an expedition to chart arctic coastlines for the Canadian Government. At King William Island, Major L. T. Burwash, leader of the party, set out on foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow and ice which neatly covered the mounds...
...John Franklin, who had been the first to trace the MacKenzie and Coppermine Rivers some 25 years before, sailed for the arctic with 129 men in the ships Erebus and Terror. The party was last seen by a whaler near the entrance to Lancaster Sound (west of Baffin Bay) on July 26, 1845. England grew alarmed at their continued disappearance, sent out rescue parties which explored thousands of arctic miles, succeeded in finding traces of the lost expedition. Fourteen years after Franklin's disappearance the camp of the expedition was located on the island and a diary found which...
Detailed extracts from the diary, radioed from the Isbjoern and relayed by cable (the whole assignment will cost "well into five figures") said the balloon landed three days after taking off from Spitsbergen, that the party then struggled for two months over Arctic ice floes before sighting the glaciers of White Island. To celebrate the finding of land they toasted the King of Sweden and Norway in 1836 wine which he had given them. A month later, although food and ammunition were still plentiful, the men were dead. Guessers last week guessed they 1) froze to death; 2) were poisoned...
...Vagabond's cool and rather quiet summer spent in the fastness of a Greenland valley has come to an abrupt close. Cambridge with its heat, dust and Tercentenary-isms, he must admit, is rather an abrupt change from the invigorating freshness of the Arctic summer. But it seems that the season for vagabonding has begun once again, so the pleasures of a past summer will have to join the shows of yesteryear and the present situation dispatched as efficiently as possible...