The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-12-01


NctLURE's DIsPATcHIs.-The London Times OF
the sh, Publishes the dispatches from Com Mcclure
10 lhe BRITISH Admiralty, relative 10 II discovery OF
the Norh est Passage, 10 ,.hch cu,sory reference
.as made by the previous steamer. These dispatch
es are very numerous and yollwinous. We present
!eow their most interesting and Importa"t features
The great poiat settled Ly Cammodotc Mcclure is
hs;-he has managed 10 force has ship, tie Inves;i-
gator, far enough, through the Brhrng Suaits, TO
point from which he could communicate with others
which had entered the Arctic Seas by the S. tanIic
plssagc Ii j. wei. 70 note this :.,st particular W
the impression having been created hat the lnyesti
gator had sailed from ocean 10 ocean, which s not
the ja4st y't but it will lie seen, by Com Nc
Clme's dispatch, below, thai he has no doubt he will
he able 70 make passage to England now, through
Davis Suaits Practically, there eiorc he is emitted
10 the credit oi having accomplished the voyage from
ocean 10 ocean
The Investigation, while forcing her way through
nnr0N's Straits, (Sept. 2Ih, 1882 irom the West.
ashore, tie Co.nmodore aahing has wiuter
quarters thcroia the Bay Of Mercy. And il fron,
that point, ie it remeubercd, that he now writes.
Com. Mcclure is sauguine of rciVunlng home TO Eng
/ land by way Of Baiin's Bay, in 1854. Portions u
/ the dispatch arc eNcecdinel, Interesting.
/ There arc two remarkable discoveries mentioned
in Captain McCiurc's Jourua, viz: smoking,
hillOck. and Letr!hcd forest. He also states that
during his Intercourse with the natives he oui, once
met with any hostile demonstrations. This occurred
at loi. Warren, gear the Mackenzie, where, on at
tempting TO land two natives with thraatcsing eesi
ues waved them off, IL Vas not without much din
Guilty thai they pseied, and then they related
ha, all their tribe bot the chei and his sck lad
ei seeing the ship, alcdsng that they
feared the ship had come tu revenge the death Of
hite man they had murdered sometime ago. Ihey
(through the interpreter react .ha scuHi white
had come there in a boat and that rhcy built them
scses house lDd iFod there AT hst !le natives
murdered one, and the others escaped they knew not
where but the n;;rdcred was buried spot they
pointed ont. thick fog coming prevented Cap
tam Mcclure from examining this locaiity, which -
mach regretted, here is the probable position where
boat party eudeayoring Ietu,n by The Mackenzie
would have encay,pcd
Metiag qf Copmodoye DcClwc. fiom ne East a.i
LIeA. Pan, ;rpm the Wet.
The first meeting Of Lieut.. Bedford PIN, with the
party from the Investigator, thus described in
private letter from Captain kectt, &. b., da,,d
Her Maie.H' ship Resolue, Melville Island, Apil
I9th, 1888
This is really red letter dav in our VOYAGE and
shall be kept holiday by om heirs aud successor,
forever. j ucock o: tins day !ook-o',t
iptn made the signal for .arl, coming n from west
ward and all went out To them and then;
in. SECOND part, was then
" pr Domyillc vas the htst person met. can.
net describe my feelings hen he od me that Captain
Mcclure among the ucxt party ! not lons
"a reachg him, aud giving him many hearty shakes
-no pIirer were ever given by two Ia tis world.
Mcclure LOOKS we'll but - very hungry His descrip
ton Of Pins making the iIarbor Of Mercy would
have been fine subject for the pen Of Captain Mary
ait, were he alive.
g Mcclure and hjs Grst Lieutenant were walking
on the hoe. Seeing IA person coming very last TO
wards them they supposed he was chased by a bear,
or had seen a bear Walked towards him; on getting
onwards hundred yards they cund see by his pro
portions that ne 40. o. ,hcm. PIN began 20
screech and throw up his hands his face black
NY ha, this brought the captain aud lieutenant
TO stand, they cold not hear sufficiently to mak:
on, his language.
"At length PIN reached the parry, quite beside
himscg, and staa,,ercd out, Mcclure asking him.
Who you, and where do you come iromp-
'Iieutenaut PIN, Herald, Captain kceti.' - Thiz
was the inc>piicabIe to Mcclure. rs was the
last person be shook hands with IN Behring's rats
lie at last tound that his solitary stranger u.
Englishnanan angel Of light, he says: He soon
was from the shiP the, had only one hs'chwa,
opon aud the we're ianly amincd there in tbs
cndcavos 10 get up. The sick jumped ont of then
hamnock>, and The forgot their dcsponden,y
IN fact, AL WAS changed board the Investigator -