The offer of one million Kroners (860,000) made by an American Teor the lengths to which certain people are prepared to go to obtain sat" on their competitors. The publishers who made this offer can have had no opportunity of inspect~ ing Andre's record, yet they and prepared to expend a King's ransom on what must ko a collection of mildewed papers covered with undecipherable hieroglyphics, If it were not in that condition after 33 years in the snow it would be remarkable! Modern tendencies play a large part in such extravagar offers. Only 18 years: ago, when the diary of Captain Scott ed beside his skeleton fatter his death on the ill-fated Sout, Pole expedition, it was "bought" on what we could by several newspapers. Will cram ming Andrée's Diary down the throats of magazine readers search of ches sentiment help the cause of discovery or contribute to the immortality of those wh found their pleasures amid the snow snd not between the pages of -highly-coloured fiction?
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