The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-10-19

out. 1t was very necessary to have liquor il
cases of sickness, but none was used regu.
larly fore or aft.
HOW THE SHIP WAS FoRsAKEN.
We abandoned the Advance on the Goth OF
May last, having passed twenty months on
board the ship while she was ice-bound II
having been determined that the vessel should
be abandoned, we made preparations for de-
parture. The philosophical instruments, the
r record of the cruise, and the necessary sup
plies Of clothing and provisions were placed
IN the ships boats and on sledges, and on
the morning Of the oath Of May we left the
ship intending to make way down through
Melville Bay to the Danish settlement, dur
ing the summer. Our trip was made III safe
II ". We dragged our boats over the ice; at
night put them up for shelter, and spread d
tent over each Of them, and Of the seventeen
persons who composed our party we lost but
one Mr.. Ohlsen, whom we buried at Little
ton Island. He was a young man, probably
- or 80 years Of age, and has left family
DIR. Kane received the poor fellows diving
messages.
On the 18th Of August, without further
mishap. We reached the settlement Of Uper-
niyik, where we were Hospitality entertained
during the whole period that we remained,
upwards OF month, awaiting the arrival Of
/ the Danish ship, which usually makes that
port about the first of September on trading
voyage. The ship, the Mary Ann, from Co.
| penhagen, re manned in port for two weeks,
dischargng and receiving cargo and when
she was ready for sea, We embarked on board
of her for home. At Lievelv, on Disco ISL
and, We fell IN with the American receiving
vessels, the Arctic and the release, which had
been in search of US and had returned. run
nIng down the coast, looking for US. This
point is two hundred and fifty miles south of
Upernlyik.
Capt. Kane and some others, myself IN
cuded, went on board the Release and the
remainder on board the Arctic.
fAfF or THE ADVANCE.
From the same source we CLEANED the fol
lowing interesting statement:
The Advance had been frozen in the ice for
two winters. During this long, weary i'm
prisonment, fuel became short, and Capt
Kane was compelled to convert the floors, IN
ner panklng, spars, and finally the very
hoors 70 the cabins, in which himself and
officers lodged, into fuel.
AT length, losing all hope Of escape By the
breaking upot the ice, his provisions growing
short, and men sick, the boats were dragged
over the lee 10 the open sea, and with his fee
bic but brave companions, betook themselves
to the open sea in their boats. After suffer
ing ali but death itself. and the loss of three
Of his brave companions, including the car
penter Captain Kane reached Danish set
Element some time in June last.
OF the sixty dogs taken out by Captain
Name, all persisted but two, which he has
brought with him.
Prior to embarking FOR home in the Relief.
he was DESTROYS of ascertalnng what was the
E. = 4 l., IL.
ice he was unable to approach within some
twenty miles Of his ship, and il was deemed
imprudent 10 hazard his men, in their feeble
condition, in a Journey 10 the imprisoned ship
over the ice.
seal fisher was fell in with, when Cap
tain Kane by signs, inquired concerning his
ship. The ksquimeaux replied by signs.
Thrusting his spear into the lee IN an erect
position, he informed Captain Kane that the
ship was still in the ice.
In answer to further inquiry a. to her con-
diton, he was informed that the sails had
been taken off for tents, and the ropes for
fishing purposes by the natives. And, hold
ing the bowl Of his clay pipe between his
hands, with the stem erect, pointing IN the
direction Of the Advance, he crushed the bowl
between his hands, the stem still continuing
erect, meaning 10 communicate that one ship
was embedded IN the ice that her masts were
still standing, but her hull had been crushed
by the ice.
AN oPES POLAR SEA.
From one of the seamen who sailed in the
Advance, the following facts We're CLEANED;
Our further progress by the ship was in
tcrcepted BY limitless fields of solid ice Or.
Kane disembarked, and commenced the over
land journey north in his canine conveyanccs.
pNp nf NJ
and Labrador dogs harnessed to sledges, car
ryng, besides the forty weapons, &c. pro-
visions for several months, u monument, pre-
pared in this city, to be erected on the spot
where Sir John Franklin and party are sup
posed TO have persisted.
The party journeved north over ice and
snow, at the rate Of 60 miles per dav, amid
scenery described as awfnlly grand the
llmtless plain presenting to the eye one vast
barren waste. and save the dismal moaning
of the Arctic winds, silence everywhere pre-
vailed. At length, after incredible toll, fur
Their progress was intercepted BY ayast, open
sea, extending in front and on either side un-
til lost IN distance.
THE EsQrIMEArX WILL STEAL.
The distance of the winter quarters from
the nearest Esqumeaux settlement was sew
entv miles. Notwithstanding the distance,
however, the Indians MADE frequent VISITS to
the ships. They came over the ice in sledges
drawn by dogs and these animals made rap
id journeys-travelllng often as much as sey-
en- or eight knots an hour. The Esquimeanx
women were often on board the vessel. Both
men and women were oftentmes taken in,
lodged and fed, and they usually behaved
well, but they are arrant thieves by nature,
and will steal. everything they can lay their
hands on, without regarding It's use at all
The only articles of which they appeared TO
understand the pnrpose. were knives rones