Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-08-22

for Sir John Franklin. we give II, WI"
uninporiant omissions.
u. s. BaiG ADVANCE June "a, 1850.
Whale6sh Island, Western Coast Of 7
Greenland, Lat. 6S 50 N. Ion. 20 l3 wy
We arrived hc-c this morning at D o.
clock, after a passage Of 'hrty-fwo days
from New York, which vas rather long,
owing to the unfavorablc winds we had.
Ga our arrival here we found an English
bark al anchor she WAS a store ship, hav-
ing brcugh, stores and coal out for the
squadron, which, by The way, sailed from
here Yesterday, consisting Of two barks of
about 800 tons each, carrying sixty men,
and steamers Of abou, 100 tons each, with
from forty 10 fifty men they are all bound
IN search of Sir John Franklin. The bark
sails in abou, week for Enelapd, which
will give us all fine opportunity 10 write,
tn, only one am afraid we shall have
for some time to cone. We have been
very fortunate in sending letters, thus far,
for boarded vessel off Newfoundland,
boInd in to ST. Johns, about the first of
this month We all sen, letters by her
They went from ST. Johns, by steamers to
Halifax, aud from there to the United
States.
After leaving New York, we KEEP, com-
pany with The Rescue, by Keeping under
short sal, until the 10Th vi. when, finding
it impossible for her 10 keep up, we made
sail and lost sight Of her in a few hours.
The days after leaving New York, gradu-
ally grew longer until the 10Th Of this
month"; (in 60 deg. so min, N. lat.) when
we could really say we had constant day,
so much SD, that we were able to steer
without lighting the binnac!e lamp, thing
| never saw before but now we have sun
shine the whole ,wenty-iour hours, we have
not got useI TO i, yet, and hardly know
when turning in time comes. You have
no idea how strange 1t appears to come on
deck at midnight (or rather what ought to
be mldnish,) and find it broad day light,
with the sun up. We still discriminate
one twelve hours from the other, by calling
their nigh, and day, and appropriate the
part we call nigh, for sleeping, or rather
portion Of it.
After leaving the coast Of Newfoundland,
we fell in with no ice until we were about
to make the coast of Greenland, when We
fonnd the cebergs in great numbers. We
made Greenland on the 2lst. 1t certa ainIy
is the mos, dismal, rocky, barren country |
ever saw or ever expect to see. This NOR
ming we met so many and such large bergs,
that we had to keep strict watch to steer
clear OF them however, wo managed sue
cessiully, and came into the harbor of
Whalefsh Island with a fine breeze, aud
anchored al 8 o'c ock. expected 10 find
solncth ny OF Z town, and when we came
in | asked where it was, and was shown
two shantes and hafa dozen E.qulmaux
mad huts. It. ore Of the shInlles the
Governor lives he is Dane, sent 0u! here
bv government, as a nd of missionary,
&c; he came on board ship this afternoon.
The Esquimaux are ugly and grea,y.-
Men, women aud chill Iren, all dress alike in
sralskins. Thcii dress is IA short jumper,
with hool To it for cap, pan,aloons
coming down to the calves of their legs,
with boots to meet ; all made of sealskn,
with the hair on We are each going to
have a suit before we leave. | bought
par of sealskin stockings, which are very
nice and warm the only objection to them
is, that they are net properly cured. Tc-
morrow the doctor and are going to Luie-
ly, small town on the island of Disco,
abou, twenty-five miles from fere 10 see
what information we can pick up.
27lh. arrived a few hours since from
Luicly, afer passage of six hours. On
our arrival, iOund The Rescue hal arrived,
and that We sail Tomorrow morning. At
Luiely We found rather more ofa town than
at these is ands About fourteen Danes
live there, a I'd one hundred Esqulmaux.-
We were treated with the greatest kindness
by the inspector n, Lulely, who is kind
of a govrrnor-gcnera of all these Isa Dis.
The prime pal thing we went after was
sea skin clothing for the Officers and men.
We succeeded in getting about fifty dola.s
worth, or about dozen suits | have n
fine coat made of young dcerskn, pair of
panla'oons of scalskin, stockings Of tn .
same, and large boots made OF Esqulmaux
dog's skin. My chances of keeping warm
are very coed. The inspector at Luelly,
who his been out here four years, tod us
that we would not feel the cold as much at
twenty degrees below zero hero as we
would at five OF six degrees al home. The
inspector, MIR, Olrck, is going home to
Denmark to remain this summer, and
when We came away he gave us every pair
! of pan,doons he had OF sealskin cxcep,
| the pair he had on, and most OF his coat-,
saying he could get more when he returned
We expect 10 60 to place called Upper.
! mark, about two hundred miles fiom here
from there we 90 to Melville Bay, thence