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They were all thinking of the terrible fate that had befallen Andre Christiansen; to die all alone in that icy land, yet who, in the agony of death had thought to warn some explorer who might come after him. "Poor fellow," murmured Amos Henderson. "He must have died soon after putting the message in the cylinder."
"I believe she is telling the truth. Probably poor Andre Christiansen got among her people and she learned a little English from him." "You come?" questioned Dirola. "Me show you where ship hid." "I wonder if it's safe to trust her," said the old hunter. "According to the message we found, the people Andre fell among were not very kind."
From 1528 to 1546 German explorers came to Venezuela also with a printing-press and with fifty miners to explore the mountains. A number of German craftsmen accompanied the first English settlers who came with Captain John Smith to Virginia. Soon after Henry Hudson had discovered the river which bears his name, Christiansen, a German, became the explorer of that stream.
The Federal Amendment came up immediately after the organization of both Houses in special session but the lower House won the race for the honor of being first to ratify, for it took up the amendment without even waiting for Governor Burnquist's message, and when it was presented by Representative Theodore Christiansen it was ratified by a vote of 120 to 6.
Then, amid a deep silence the professor read the paper. "Whoever may find this, take warning and do not seek to find the north pole. Danger lurks there. My name is Andre Christiansen, and I am a Dane, educated in America, who set out to find the pole. I discovered it but was taken into captivity by the fierce people who dwell around it. They determined to get rid of me.
"Exactly, what a charming task! I shall have to write my cherubs' names, I suppose, most of them will take a yard of tape apiece. I already recall Paulina Strozynski, Mercedes McGafferty, and Sigismund Braunschweiger." "And I, Maria Virginia de Rejas Perkins, Halfdan Christiansen, and Americo Vespucci Garibaldi."
But it was April before the second death occurred one of the Esquimaux. "Action of water on the heart caused by insufficient nutrition," was the doctor's verdict in a word, but a word all dreaded to hear, starvation. Thereafter the men went fast. In a day or two Christiansen, an Esquimau, died. Rice, the sharer of his sleeping bag, was forced to spend a night enveloped in a bag with the dead body.
The reports brought by him to Europe of a newly discovered country abounding in fur-bearing animals created much interest, and in 1612 some merchants in Holland sent Christiansen and Blok to the island of Manhattan, where they built a little fort, which, it is stated, Argall attacked in 1613.
That is, the estimated number of Lutherans of foreign origin, counting only the chief countries from which they emigrate to America, is 507,708. But we also have Lutherans here who are not of foreign origin. Lutherans have lived in New York from the beginning of its history. Its first houses were built by Heinrich Christiansen, who certainly had a Lutheran name.
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