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the British forces advancing as far as Khartoum, and that they may
station troops to keep possession of the land they have gained, but that
they must not attempt to go a step farther. The Mahdi is to remain King
of Khartoum.

It is not yet known whether the terms of peace will be accepted by
England.

An interesting find was made at Berber. When the British troops entered
the town they found on one of the boats in the river a uniform-case
marked Gordon Pasha.

The English officers to whom it was brought were much moved at the sight
of an article that had once been the property of the unfortunate General
Gordon, who was killed by the Mahdists at Khartoum on January 26, 1885.

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There is news of Professor Andree.

You remember that he started from Spitzbergen in a balloon, hoping to
sail across the North Pole.

A report from Arctic Russia says that on the night of September 14th the
inhabitants of a little village saw a balloon which was believed to be
that of Andree's.

A day or two after this a carrier-pigeon brought a despatch from the
traveller.

The tidings brought by this bird were that Andree was making a good
voyage to the eastward, and that all was going well.

There is no doubt that this message is a genuine one from the explorer.
The pigeon bore on its wings the same markings as on those which the
adventurer carried with him. Scientists have, however, expressed their
opinion that Andree has failed to reach the Pole. The message of the
bird and the direction in which the balloon was seen to be going have
convinced them that Andree has been carried eastward, and not across the
Pole, as he had hoped.

It is thought that by this time the gas in the balloon must have become
exhausted, and that Andree and his companions have had to cut loose from
it, and are on the ice somewhere near Spitzbergen, and that they may
perhaps be so fortunate as to drift near enough to civilization to be
picked up and rescued.

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Interesting news has reached us about Lieutenant Peary.

He left Boston in July to see if he could not establish a settlement far
to the north in Greenland, which should serve him as a base of supplies,
or a place where he could leave the main part of his baggage, and to
which he could send or return at will.

Lieutenant Peary's plan for reaching the North Pole, when he sets out in
1898, is to establish a number