| Summary: | Searching For Arctic Lands: Starkensen Leads Party For Exploration Across Ice Fields. Searching For Arctic Lands: Starkensen Leads Party For Exploration Across Ice Fields. SEATTLE, May 15.—Stark Starkensen, one of the lieutenants of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, has set out at the head of an expedition of, exploration across the Arctic ice in search of new lands, according to letters received here from the north Starkensen, with 12 companions, nine sleds and 80 dogs, left Cross island March 10, and expected to be gone 100 days. Stefansson was reported at Fort Yukon, Alaska, recovering from his recent illness.
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