Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-10-01

4 out OI HIS cSpeutuUu dIc tOU "Ct w uc
here repeated; and it is also vel known that he
cared not to return at all it unsuccessful. He
went, resolving to enjoy an unqaestionab'e tri'
umph, or perish in the attempt
The operation of steam TO such an undertaking
was itself an experiment requiring the ltnas; Pc
fiction and certainty in all its de Ais IH.4,,u-
nately. MS ship was fitted with boilers % 8 n=w
construction. which have been since r,Yaa not
to answer the hish expectations the s-Asi OF
| them.
| 1t is doubtful whether they cop,3 sensrate or
keep up supply Of steam to give 'uti"'ent speed
even IN fair weather and smoo,h Ds:-I, and il ia
very much TO be feared that rev END deep
seas where they would BE- n9rf aa:Led, the en-
yines would fail TO act. Hocpo er. the hul of
the vessel was not of 4 cgHar2''ion to bear safe
" the impulse aud pres arc II he ice She was
besides, too deeply sie:.. an,i even surprising the
necessary consj,nl:iQc nv the crew would mate
rally llshtea or. stu she could be what sailors
call too =. .thars,raa. - '5c 50 weak a vessel!
But had his s,caDe- been ..Tonger, more roomy
aud the machner2 tle NEST perfect and certain,
Ross you'd have stare: iIder better prospects
than any ot the former aEoedIti0ns. From the
point of Par " return II Regents's inlet. no land
or ice could be seen, and he probably would have
reached Cape Turnagain IN week or ten DAYS
Had Ross found as open j sea las from the combl-
ned evidence of Parrs and FranSlin. there seems
little reason to duubt) he would nave done the
same IN three or tour days. But the loss OF his
tender, the John, was an additional misfortune;
which diminished his resources, already scanty
when compared with the equipment of govern
ment expeditions.
The last authentic news Of him was in lat 6S
tegN, q Juv. 1929. They had lost their
foremost. but bv singular good fortune had reht-
ted in the harbor of Hosleinberg with the mast
Of the lockwood, an abandoned whaler; from
which they also took provisions and stores
They sailed, after remaining there only few
hours. with high hopes; the accounts OF the ice
received from the natives were excsllent-all
right amongst the crew-wind fair md weather
favorable. Ross slast words were, - We are
in more complete state than when we left En-
gland: and if ever the northwest passage be made
it should be this year."
What DESTROYED those brave men, OF how their
ship was Set fast aud crushed, we shall never
know, unless some Of the remains be found by
some Of those changes which, from age to age,
reveal the wreck of sea and land, or some one
hereafter shnu'd visit The sad scene Of their de.
strucion. All chance Of the return of The YES
sci and crew is, we fear, at an end. Yet, hunger
can scarcely have been their destroyer They
were pro,isioned for three years, and hal they
passed Behring'S Straits. could hav e got further
supplies from kaUschatka.
1t is hard 10 give up all hope. I, is rarely
possible that he may exist among the EsqmnauS
or indians; he NAV yet return, But 80 t'ar ~:
name must be added to the list Of those whom
ingratitude and injustice have driven upon enter
prises with feelings which threaten ont one issue:
and we could not longer delay The expression OF
our regret and sorrow: histories like this OF Ross
should be stamped deep upon the hearts aud me-
mories of his countrymen.