has returned with Captain Jackson and the members of the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition. They seem to have had a very pleasant time there, and to have made some geographical and meteorological investigations of some value; but they made no effort to reach the Pole. Mr. Alfred Harmsworth, who paid the whole cost of the expedition, is reputed to be not ill-satisfied with the result. If he was in search of a valuable advertisement he has certainly, not got it. Captain Jackson's return has created no sensation at all comparable to that aroused by Nansen, who had at Toast made something of a' record. The Jackson-Harmsworth party seem to have settled down in Franz Josef Land with the plentiful stock of provisions and comforts which had been supplied to them, and had a very comfortable time of it. "The scientific results of their expedition are no doubt as great as, and possibly much greater, than if they had made a fruitless endeavour to reach the Pole, but it does not fire the popular imagination to the same extent.
10th September.
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