Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-10-20
United States Arctic Expedition.


desfook the expedition which has nos
terminated, is coupled t;om statement
made to the New York Conrier Nv Messrs.
Bousall and Sontag, aud DR.. Hayes, O
the expeditions:
The Brig advan ce left New York. o,
the 3lst Of May, 1883, Tor the purpose o
finding some tlaee Of Sir. John franklin
aud afiordine him snccor, if possible
Size proceeded without incident to Baffin.
BAY. Stopped at several Danish colo.
nies III Greenland, where the party pro.
cured turs aud Esqoimanx dogs to draw
the sledges. THEN Proceeded onward TO-
wald Davis's Straits. and encountered the
FIRST ice IN Melville Bay. toward. the bitter
ehd OF July. They Succeeded IN wosk IL e
d Wav Through with wonderful faeiIitv.
aud reached open water on the second Of
August in latitude rs deg. Entered Smiths
SQUAD On The fifth o; August and the he At
cav Encountered heavy ice. From this
time lulih, the ship WAS constantly in ice.
Work d through it in north ea.leiiy d.
reciion ill the latitude offs degrees as
minutes was reached, when it was deter
mined TO go into winter qpaitrrs. For
This purpose returned south lew n,iies,
and OH The 10,b Of September, 1858, fast
anchor oft the westerly coast OF Greenland
and commenced preparations foI the vim.
ter. The vessel was housed over, gale,
stoves " ere put up between decks, AMI
provisions were landed TO provide for anv
contingency that might atise. Meanwhile
sledge was sent out with provisions 10
be deposited, 50 That rallies going out in
The spring might so father from the >hip
obtaining supplies from these d-pols.--
lection about four hundred miles, reach
iag latitude 80 degiees, and found that
large glacier formed the no,tll- estern
coast oil Greenland, Tor about 50 Mics
The parry travelled alnng it good por
ton OF the di>lshee. and returned aDoul
the middle Of October. OiheT small par
ties we've afterwards sent uut to make ,ni-
ye.s and oi,se,sai,ons regarding The in
dentalioh OF the coas.-the last ahou, the
latter pait OF November, hen, in conse-
qoeGce Of increasing cold aud da kness,
luther operations ws ere suspended tor thu
winter Ths sun disappeared On Tie
24lh Of October. and on The tirsi of De-
cember. darkness r-igneJ sop'eme. The
fell IN some instances 10 more
than sixty degrees belos zero, and me'-
cury Wal aimos, constantly frozen. How
ever, the party, now housed in their ship,
had no difficulty in keeping ~s,m by
grans Oh the Goals which the .hi? carried
ont. TIE sun reapprared on tue 9th Of
February, snd on The l2th of March,
~ hen the days had acquired much length
'ied.,nY sgs,a commented. ne only in.
.i!ent OF The winter hitch we shall men,
ion, was the loss Of nearly all the dogs BY
, spas"oiic complaint which carried of
II, leaving Oily three or Iour.
Tue tiIst sledse par,s (that of the i2h
IF Mar,il } was intended 10 carry provis-
ons sctoss 10 Smiths SQUAD TO the main
and, sid there make a deposi, for se-
qond party. ltd:d not succeed in its OBJ
lec!, but was obliged 70 return in conse-
queuce OF The extreme ronghuess of the
ice a9d the cold. They did not get more
than forty miles from the ship. All were
more or less frost bitten, and two CT their
ali--died IN consequence
Pierre Shube,t. the cook. sutf-i,ed an am.
battalion which he did not survive: jeff.
Baker, u seam-n, died OF teianus, caused
by The frost. Two Others lost their toes.
" hen about thirty miles iiom the ship Oh
Iatir ruarn' Mt. Sohtag, the llydrograph.
r.. who W., one ol the party, and two
others, set out 10 obtain Ieiet. The other
VI tae four who we're sbie 10 90 any thing
we,e lett to take care oil the more intense
Ga reaching the ship, DR..
Kane >etoui with a party to the assistance
el taose with the siedsr. anal bfou.h.
;hcm TO the ship. The sun remained
above the horizon after the 9Th Of April
On the 29h Of April, (loji,) party
accompanied by two sIedses, one dawn
by dogs aud the other men, sci OFT under
The direction ut DIR. Kane hmsrlt. TIT
dogs dad been ootaiped from some ESqui-
'nsux. who visited the ship early in ,he
>prine, but who had net been seen the
previous fall. The party under DR.. I ane
wc,e gone eight days. were obliged to re-
turn, III consequence of the illness OF DR..
X. vi no suffered an attack Of fever, from
which, however, he soon recovered. On
the 18th Of Alay, Dr.. Hays, the surgeon
Of The expedi,i,u SIT out with single
sledge and driver, end crossed the chan
nel. He encountered sery rough ice, and
suffered mnch fom snow blindness. He
was Obliged to return IN absu: two ~e-ks.
IN consequence of the failure OF his supply
OF provisions. The expedition was yet
not without result. About 150 miles Of
coas, were discovered, and chat Of IT
drawn. On his letuin he was drawn BY
his dogs more than sky miles, and all
they had TO eai was an old boot aid pal,
OF pair Of leather trousers. which they
deyoured with the greatest rsPaei's.
Another expedition, which, like the
othets, was undertaken principally to OH
tain some iiace OF Sir. John Franklin, nov
started ia tue same direction as the first
expedition OF the fall previous. 1t WAS
under the direction OF OiEe~r MeGairy
and Mr.. Bonsall, who Went out as Dagu~t-
reoty pist (whose apparatus, by The way
would not work IN those moi th-rn regions.
Tins party endeayoled to Sud the conaec.
ting lux between llceenland and the main
land OF North America, but did not, so
that i, still remains undecided whether
Greenland is an island or not. But they
discovered large bay, extending due
uor,h, terminating in the large glacier,
mentioned above. From this new chan.
MI ,xas d;ccovried along ~ h,ch tbox ms