Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1850-10-18
American Arctic Expedition.

The New York Herald publishes an inte--
esting letter from one of the officers Of the
expedition sent out in search of Sir John
Franklin. w make the following extracts
from it.
L. S. Brig ADVANCE. June eth, 1850, J
I Nhaleish Island, W. coast of Green
land, lat. 6S so n. lon. 53 II W.
We arrived here this morning at O'Clock,
after passage Of thirty-two days from New
y ork, which was rather long, owing 10 unia-
vorable winds We had.
AT our arrival, we found an English barlue
at anchor; she is a store-shlp, having brought
stores and coal out for the squad ron. which. by
the way. sailed from here yesterday, consist
ing of two barques of about three hundred
tons each, carrying 60 men, aud steamers of
100 tons each, with from "A to 80 men; they
are all bound in search Of Sir John franklin.
| l he barque sails in about week for Eng
land which will give US all a 6ne opportunity
to write, the only one, am afraid, shall
have for some time to come.
After Fing New York. we kept in COM
pany with the Rescue, by keeping under short
sail, until the 18th ult., when. finding it inn
possible for her to keep up, we made sail aud
lost sight of her in few hours. The days.
after leaving New FORK. gradually grew lon-
ger, until the 9th of this month, (ir 90 deg.
80 minutes, North Lat.,) when, at any time,
we could readily say we had constant day, so
much so, that we were able to steer without
lighting the bnacle lamp, thing we never
saw before, but we have sunshine the
whole twenty-four hours; we have not got
used to it, and hardly know when 'turning-in'
time comes. You have 10 idea how strange
it appears 10 come on deck 1T midnight (or
rather what ought to be midnlght,) and find
it broad daylight with the sun uP. We still
discriminate one twelve hours from another,
by calling them day and night, and appropri-
ale the part we cali night for sleeping, ra-
ther portion Of II.
After leaving the coast of Newfoundland,
we fell in with no ice until we were about II
make the coast of Greenland, when We fonnd
the icebergs in great numbers. We made
Greenland on the 2Ist inst. II certainly Is
the most dismal, rocky, barren country / cY-
er saw or ever expect to see, This morning
we met so many and such large berCs that We
had TO keep strict watch to steer clear of them
however managed successfully, and
came into the haIbor Of Whalelish island,
with fine breeze and anchored al O'Clock.
| expected something of a town, and when
came in. ! asked where il was. and
shown two shanties and half dozen Esqui-
mauX mud huts. In one Of tile shanties tho
Governor lives; he isa Dane sent cut here
a kind Of Missionary, &c; he came on board
. our ship this afternoon.
The Esquimaux are ugly and greasy. Men
women and children, all dress alike, in seal
skins. Their dress is a short Jumper, with
a hood to il for cap, pantaloons coming down
to the calves of their legs, with boots TO meet,
all made Of seal-skin with hair on; ara
each going to have a pair before we leave.
bought pair Of seal-skin stockings, which
are very nice and warm; the only objection
70 them IS that they are not properly cured
/ Tomorrow, the doctor and | are going to Lu=
iely, a small town on the Island Of Disco,
about 25 miles distant, to see what informa-
ton we can pick up.
9Th / arrived few hours since from
Luiely, after a passage Of si1 hours. On our
arrival | found the Rescue had arrived. and
that VIC sail tomorrow morning. AT Luiely
we found more Of 4 town than these Islands.
About fourteen Danes live there, and one hum
dred Esqumaux.
The prime pal thing we went after was seal-
skin clothing for the officers and men. We
succeeded In getting about ffty dollars worth;
or about a dozen suits.
We expect TO go to a place called Upper
mark, about goo miles from here from there
we 90 to Melville Bay, thence ACROSS to Ian
caster Sound, TO Cape Walker: from Cape
Walker shall try TO get to Melville Island
and as much farther as we can. w expect
to winter at Melville Island but that Of course
will depend very much upon circumstances.
This Is the last opportunity Of writing. we
shall have for long time, unless we havo
the good luck TO fall in with a whaler, bound
either home to England,
Your ever aIfectonate brother,
W. $. L0VELE.