The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-10-31
From Gfeen1and's Icy Mountains
The Arctic Navigators.

The Arctic Navigators.
We continne our extracts from tn,
intensely interesting accounts as render
ed by DR.. KANE's party, and the rescu
ing party under Lieut.. HARrsrEIN and
Lieut.. SMMs. A journal kept by ONT
of the officers belonging to the rescuine
party, in speaking of their voyage ou
last spring says:
| NO NIGHT.
Nothing moro of note occurred til
June ed, when we had no occasion fol
a light in the cabin, the sun setting al
liz at night and rising little after
IL o'clock midnight, (lat. SO deg. min
Ion. so deg Sc min. } this was about the
same latitude in which De Haven OBJ
served this phenomenon. June 23d,
very little ice seen, only one berg; at II
o'clock at night it was about as dark as
an hour after sunset at home; discovered
high land in the morning watch; this
was about Desolation land At meridian
on the 24th made Greenland, one hun
dred and fifty miles above Cape Fare
well; the old A cite cruisers among US
observed that there was great deal
more snow here than they ever saw be-
fore; several very beautiful icebergs hove
in sight, bearing every conceivable form
of architectural bcauty-one of them
being an exact counterfeit of Grace
church, New York From the oath of
June to the 4th of July we saw an i'm
mense number of whales and dovekies;
Capt. Hartstein, Lieut.. Fyffe, and other
officers went out and shot, in six hours,
200 pounds of doveki-s, "a kind of
duck,) and did not get then more than
one third of the number killed. July
I'd, the sun descended to within its disk
above the horizon, and then rose again.
July 5th, afternoon, made the Kron
Prince islands; Drisdo island in sight;
our officers and crew all we'll; anchored
at 6:3o in the harbor of Leiveley; the
royal Danish inspector, Mr.. Olric, came
off to US and rendered US the hospitali-
ties of all North Greenland; Leiveley is
a town of $50 inhabitants, composed of
ten or twelve Danes, and the rest half
breed Danes and full blooded Esquimaux
one of the officers, an old Arctic cruiser,
sent for his friends, aud two of them,
daughters of Broborg, Sophie and Marie
came on board and greeted him right
ht artily.
THE PARTY AND BALLS
We invited them to tea, aud after
spending the evening IN social converse
ton, they were escorted home by the Of
scers. Every night, sundays included,
while VIC remained there we had balls
and parties, and passed the time very
Imagine ball room full
Of Greenland bellies, dressed in seal-skins,
and breeches, ornamented
with gay-colored leather, and dancing
to the music of :nelodious fddles. July
10. the squadron left Lieveley, ard
stood for Waigat Straits for coal; saw
white whale dead on the beach; supposed
she had gone up there to give birth to
her calf, and was left by the receding
tide. The Release made Haroe Island
on the l4th of July, saw boat, which
We imagined contained DR.. Kane and
lis party. We stood for them, and
found the party to consist of Mr.. Peter
'on, venerable Dane, who has been
lere for many years as agsnt of the Dan
sh government, with some members Of
lis family and several Esquimaux. At
Haroe island we got some coal Of good
quality; it burns rapidly, aud is some
hing like petrifed wood, and may be
,ut with knife, and leaves very large |
lmsunt of ashes Cleared on the 18th,
md spoke couple of whalers, who told |
Is that they had tried to get through |
Melville Bay, but had to give up the at
empt on account of the ice, and they
hought it almost hopeless for US to
ry it.
WILL DANCE BUT NOT STEAL -
After taking in coal in the Waigatt
We advanced to Upernavik, the most
lorthern Danish settlement. This place
consists of somo half-dozen rude frame
louscs, and some twenty or thirty white
and about one hundred Es-
uimaux, who live in Winter in stone
Iuts, and in Summer in skin-tents. The
majority of them are half breeds, the