Star.
London, England, 1823-10-28 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION.

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At two o'clock yesterday, Admiralty orders were re-
ceived on board the Hecla and Fury, North Pole ships,
to dismantle, and return the remaining supplies of food,
the spars, and moveable ship-materials, to the Dock-
yard at Deptford. At the same time the very neeessai y
and welcome order arrived fur permitting the officers
and crews to land the different objects of cariosity which
they had acquired .during their sojourn in the Arctic
Regions. The principal objects of curiosity were landed,
yesterday evening at Deptford. Several parcels ad-
efeessed for Captain Parry were directed to the care of the
Admiralty. The long canoe, which was suspended be-
tween the decks of the flecla, was not of Esquimaux ma-
nufacture. The natives refused to part with their canoes,
as they were about to require their use at the time of the
breaking up of the ice, when our ships were quitting the
Arctic Regions. Captain Lynn had.this canoe made by
the carpenter of the Hecla (Mr. Puffer) from a native's
model ; it is of whalebone covered with seal-skin, pre-
pared and supplied by the Esquimaux ; the skin is cut
iu long slips, and the process of tannin,* obtained by a
sort of mastication which the natives performt in a rapid
manner. There are several specimens of birds brought
over, and some of the duck species are varied and beau-
tiful, with all the brilliancy of South American plumage.
Those birds which have white plumage,-and the arctic.
fox, have a slate coloured lam at the root of the hair,
which at certain seasons predominates, and supplants
the white: It was observed that in the stomach of the
ymis and other fish which were in the winter season
, caught under the ice, there was a considerable portion
of shell-sand, as if they had been compelled to live al-
together on the shell-fish, which adhei ed to the sub-
marine soil. It may possibly lead to some trace of the
whale-ships which were described by the Esquimaux as
having been wrecked 150 miles from the winter station
of the expedition, to state that on one of the stones which
was brought by the natives, were the letters BRA.
Scme idea is entertained that a further experiment in
northern navigation is contemplated, from the fact that
in the orders for dismantling, which arrived yesterday,
it was directed that no part of the fixtures or heating
apparatus of the ships should be separated from their
present position on board. A number of visitors were
yesterday on board. The dates.of the voyagers are brief
and simple. On the Bth of October, 1821, the ships an-
chored in Winter Island, as it was called, in lat 66.12.
N. long. 82. 53. W. They were released from their icy
barrier on the Ist of July, 1822. On the 10th of Sep-
tember of that year, the ships reached 69. 48. N. lat.
83. 37. W. long. the farthest point north reached by the
expedition. In the second winter the ships were frozen
up on the '24th of September, 1822, in lat. 69. 24. long.
81. 45. and they drove w ith the ice four miles to the
. southward during the winter. On the Bth of August
they were enabled to extricate themselves, and return
homeward, finding al further pursuit of the object of
the expedition unattainable.
• One of the greatest iuconveniencies suffered by the
crews last voyage arose from the vapour with which
the air in the between-deck was loaded, being constantly
cooled into water at the sides of the ships, owing to the
external cold, and then forming all along the decks,
close to the side, great masses of ice. By putting an
additional inside lining to the ship, and filling sup the
space between it and the common side with cork and
cotton, and by doubling the decks, filling the space be-
tween them in the same way, the evil above- described
was effectually prevented,,,and the men's births and the
whole inside of the ship kept at a comfortable tempera-
ture, with a much less expense of fuel than the voyage
.• before. If the object be worth pursuing, there is in this
circumstance encouragement to attempt another voyage.
Among the curiosities, that which most attracted our
attention, if it did nut gratify our palate, was some of
the tripe de mat (a species of lichen), on which Captain
Franklin and his companions subsisted for several days.
The fur coat of the Esquimaux, possessed by Captain
Lyon, would become the most dashing buck at the West
End, and we shall not be surprised, if, a want of some-
thing else to imitate, our dandies should this winter all
be clothed in Esquimaux coats. The cap worn by the
same people, we can recommend to Ladies who are
bathers; they will find the sort of ears which stick up
both comfortable and becoming. There are still on
board some very curious spears, knives, and bows, which
are readily shewn to visitors; but we observed that
Captain Parry has taker,* the greater part of his accps,S.
sitions away. Up to the month of August, we have
seen and felt too, in our time, a great many musquitoes,
but we never saw any so very large as those preserved
on board the Hecla. If these were the kind of mon-
sters which tortured Captain Franklin and his compa-
nions, they merit our commiseration, but, most assuredly,
we will not quit our desk to tread in their steps. The
dogs on board are large limbed, and appear very strong,
but, so little accustomed to heat, that they are now
panting as if it were the height of summer. Though
some of them were very useful on more than one occa-
sion, their howling drew large bodies of wolves to the
ships, which were with difficulty prevented from board-
ing them. During the time the ships were ill the ice,
fourteen were killed.

We recommend the phrenologists also to make haste
on board, for we saw two skulls of the Esquimaux, both
well formed, and as far as. we understand the doctrine,
of these Gentlemen, indicating nothing very particular,
but a considerable love for murder. The organ of de-
titructiverress was prominent in these otherwise well
formed heads. We have heard seine persons hint that
the extreme cold and the long seclusion had benumbed
the faculties of ail the voyagers ; but if this were the
case, it is no longer so ; we found the people commu-
nicative, and had the pleasure of hearing Captain Lyon
utter very audible commands. Up to the month of
August last we were told the ships remained 6sed in the
ice; they the* got extricated, but after being afloat a
few days, they again stock fast. Five weeks they re-
mained in this situation, the crew almost fearing to be
a.;ain locked up for another %k inter ; but after great ex-
ertions, they succeeded in cutting through the ice, and
forcing the ships out, and then madesail for England.
Oa leaving their friends the Esquimaux, w•e are
told, one of the women who had lost her husband, was
very anxious to be taken on board, and followed the
ships fur a long distance, imploring, iu vain, for this
favour. We have no wish to urge men on to perilous,
and at the same time profitless undertakings; and had
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copies the following intelligence from the Oriental_
Anappears rather humiliating to allow this lam el to be
from Constantinople, by way tel Odessa, which state alm;aznamp=a= - .
i rillered by another nation, possessing the advantage of Spectator :
SMYRNA, AUGUST 29. that the long pending differences between Turkey and Accounts from Aleppo state .that the cholera 101'14
il' vicinity, but no other. From what we have seen of the has appeared in a village near that City,
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