New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-18


- be,,b and a wesriDee. OF the bones that sh,ud
naturally attend the eruption which cover my body.
Ru have non, 81 the more fearful signs. can walk
With Uetgy offer get warmed up. | have no heei-
inc of fb. gums and better than sll thank God | am
tlort that hon Ibc dependency which the disease
uouri.h.s and feeds on. l s'eep sound and dream
pea-tuty-gencrHly about successes IN the hunt, or
d double ration of reindeer or pia mighH."
On Sunday The 18th Of February glimpse was
obtained Of the returning SUI.
"1o -day, flesstd be the great Author OF Light |
have once more looked Upon the sun. was standing
ch dee X. blinking over our pruop@t-, when tanllar
berg, vi ch had long been hid la shadow flashed out
il run. b.rth. ksew this berg ght well; It stool be-
tween Charlotte Wood fiOrd AID Lit lie Wlles MOnu-
neIt. Ore year and one day ago taveled t0Edd IL
Fl, IN Fern Rock To catch the sunshine. Then had TO
cub tie bills beyond, get The luxury OF bsskog IN
il bieEtness but now, though thesun was but stu
gle gree ahOv, the true horizon, was much ee-
vld by Ttrsciion that the sheen stretched across the
troul Of The ford like flaming tIngue l could not
on would not res-t the influence. Ii WA Sunday act
Of worship. | started off st even run, aud ciught
him Is be rolled slowly along the horizon, aud before
he sark. again tho fret Of my party to rgoice
al mediate in sunshine. Ii the hhd sun have
ttcr r1se for above the long night Of an Arc
tic win'eI."
1t was not until the Goth of May that the party
were enabled to leave the vessel, which was IRE
coverably Embedded in the ice, and take up the line
Of march for the settlements on the Greenland
coast During the intervening time they had not
been idle. On every respite from their incredible
suferiDgs by cold, famine and disease, the search
was continued for the object of the Expedition, bat
after VARIOUS ruitless attempts they were obliged to
re'iuqush all hope Of success. We hase no space
to de all the perilous journey to the Danish
settlements at which they arrived about the LIST OF
August
The Expedition under DR.. Kane, although not
succeeding in the great purpose for which II Was
dispatched, has contributed important and valuable
additions to the geography of the Arctic regions.
The highest point reached was nearly eighty-one
and half degrees of latitude, within about FIVE
hundred miles of the Pole In the different ex-
plcraticns by members of the party, the northern
coat Of Greenland was surveyed to its termination
in the great Humboldt Glacior-this glacial mass
was examined aod described rs far as it's nortbward
extension into the new land named Washington
large tract Of land forming the extern
sion nOrtLward of the American continent
was discOyered-and the existence ascertaincd
OF all open and iceless sea towards the Pole making
an area, with its channel, of over four thousand
miles. The discovery Of this Polar Sea is one of
tie most interesting results of Arctic exploration.
II bad long been suspected that such tract of
water was 10 be found in the vicinity of the Pole
and the suspicion was confirmed to s1mo extent by
actual or supposed discoveries. But hitherto no
satisfactory proof of the fact had be;n obtained
I be evidence which DR. Kane has had the rare good
fortune to collect is founded on facts Of immediate
Obsers alton. The coast Of this mysterious was
irsversed for many miles-the water was viewed
from an elevation of five hundred aud eighty fset,
presenting the same Imltless spectacle, moved BY
heavy swell, free from ice and dashing in surf
agalr st rock bound shore. In connection with
this discovery, several facts were brought TO light
indicating niIder climate near the Pole. Crowds
of marine birds, the advance of vegetable life, the
melted snow upon the rocks, and the rise Of the
thermometer iii the water, suggested the SUPPOSE
tOD of climatic meliOraion towards tho Pole, al
though DR.. Kane dec ines engaging in the discus
sion If the question.
In concluding our extended notice Of this work,
We cannot but repeat the expression of our sense
of the heroism energy and intelligence of the III
trepid chief OF the Expedition. His modes: MARIA
tive has certain autObiographica fascination, un-
consciously revealing the highest order OF manly
qualities while in the interest of its Incidents it is
almost superluous to say, it surpasses the most
exciting wonders of romance. vein of beautiful
humanity petvades its composition, and even in rhe
DE- -crbing of the most desperate scenes, lurking
humor often peeps forth, showing the impotence
Of uncOngenial circumstances TO depress ~ elastic
and generous nature. The ethical lesson of these
volumes is no less precious gift to the reader than
It's scientific instruction and picturesque delinea-
tous