Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1856-09-06

And the Doctor did it. ike spirited fellow, travelling
back and forth for what he could not take in one
journey, the did in the story who bad pack o.
corn goose and Welt to get across the river Over
ice, hummock the Lieutenant his way witt
his dogs, not bear seal nor hare wolf tC
feed them with, preserved meats which had been put
up with dainty care for men and women all he had Or
the rdvenou. tasees creatures, who would have been
more pleased with bubber came nks Land at last
but no game there; awful drifts; shut up III the tent for
whole day, and he himself 80 sick he could scarcely
stand There were but three of them in all and the
Captain Of the sedge not unnaturaly asked poor Pim
when he was at the worst What shall do, Sir if you
die 2: Not very comforting question
he did not die He got few hours sleep felt bet
ter and started againbut had the discourag, Of
finding such tokens Of open strait the last year that
he felt sure, that the ship he going look for
would be gone. One morning, he had been of for game
for the dogs unsuccessully and when he back
his men, learned that they had seventeen deer.
After them goes Pim:-fnds them to be three hIreS,
magnfed by fog and mirage, and their long ears an
swering for horns. This day they got upon the
Bay of Mercy No ship in sight Right across it goes
the Lieutenant to look for records-when at in the
afternoon Robert Hole something black up the bay
Through the glass the Lieutenant makes il our to be
ship. They change their direction at Over the
ice towards her He leaves he sedge and goes on
How far it seems At he can people walking
about, and pile Of and flag staff on the beach
Keep n PIN, shall get there2 At 5 he is
But just tten the very persons him who ought TO
PIN beckons, waves his arms the Esquimaux 10 in
sign OF friendship. Captain Mcclure and his Lieut..
aswell taking their exercise the chief business
Of those winters, and ut last him PIN is black
90 Erebus from the smoke of cooking in the little
Mcclure owns, not to surprise only, but t6inge OF
dismay Il paused in my advance, says he g doubt
ing who what it could be, denizon of this or the
other world" But this only lasts a moment PIN
speaks Brave man that he can. How his voice must
have choked, rs if he in a dream - am Lieu
tenant PIN, late Of Herald" Capt Kelett sis Mel
Vile IsIand-' Well chosen words PIN, to be sent III
advance over the hundred yards Of foe Nothing
about the ''Resoue" which would have confused them.
But ''Pim Herald" and ''Kellet, were among the
last signs Of England they had seen,-al this was in
telIgble Anexcellent little peech,-which the brave
man had been getting ready perhaps as one does tel
DESPATCH for the hours that he had been walk
ing the foe to her. Then such shaking hands,
such greeting. Poor Mcclure could not speak at first
One Of the men at work got the news on board and up
through the matches poured everybody sick and well
to the black stranger and TO hear his news from
England 1t nearly three years since they had seen
any civilized man but themselves.
The 2Sth of July, three years before, Commander
Mcclure had sent his last despatch the Admiralty.
He had then prophesed just what in three years be had
almost accomplished Ia the winter Of 1859 he had dis
covered the North West Passage. He had come round
into branch of it, Bankss Straits in the next
mer,-had gladly taken refuge the Bay Of Mercy III
gte,aud his ship had never left 1t since. Let It be
said in passing that most likely she is there In
his last dispatches he had told the Admiralty not to be
anxious about him if he did not arrive home before the
autumn Of 1854 As it proved, that autumn lie did
come with all his whom he had not sent home
before and those who had died. When PIN found them
all the but thirty under orders for marching
some Baffin's Bay, to the Mackenzie River on
their return to England. Mcclure was going to stay
with the rest, and come home with the ships, II they
could if not by selges to Port Leopold, and by
steam launch which lie had left there for Frank
lin in l8l9 But the arrival of Mr. PIN put end
all these plans We have his long despatch TO the Ad-
nirllty explaining them finished only the day before
PIN arrived 1t gives the history of his three years
lie from the word,-an exile crowded full Of effective
work in a record which gives noble picture Of the
man. The Queen has made him Sir Robert Mcclure
since in honor of his great discovery.
Banks Land, or Barring Island, the two names belong
to the same island on the shores Of which Mcclure and
his men had spent most Of the years more Is
an island on which they first of civilized to
land. For people who not very particular, the
measurement of it which gave before, viz that it is
about the size and shape Of Ireland is precise enough
There high land in the Interior probably the winds
from in shore are cold The crew found coal anl dwarf
willow which they could burn-lemnings, ptArmigln,
hares reindeer and musk oxen, which they could eat
Farewell 10 the and where often have wended
NV way DER il mountains and valleys OF snow
Farewell to the rocks and The hills I've ascend q,
The bleak ,rcric homes OF The bucs and the doe,
Farewell to the deep glens where oft has resouHdsd
he bunting's <, As she caTrOlled her lay,
To the hill and plain By the green sOrrel bounded,
TIN struca by the blast Of n cold winters day.'
There is a bit Of description of Banks lind, from
the Anthology of that country, which, 50 far rs We
know consists Of two poems by u seaman namel Mel
SON. one of Capt M;Clure's The highest temper
aure ever observed this gem Of the sea was 50
in midsummer The lowest G5 , below zero in
Jan 1885, that day the thermometer did not rise to
6Oo below, that month was never warmer than 10 :
telow, and the average Of the month was Az below
pleasant climate to spend three years III!
One day for talk was all that could be lowed, after
Mr. Pins amazing appearance. On the 9Th Of April,
he and his dogs and Capt. Mcclure and party were
ready to return to our friend the q Resolute" They
pcked up Dr. Domvi on the way, he had got the bro
ken slelge mended and killed five musk oxen, against
thew came along He went in the dog selge TO tell
the news but Mcclure and his men kept pIce with
them.-and he and Dr. Domyiile had the telling oE the
news together.
1t was decid d that the " "Investigator" should be
abandoned, and the 90 intrepid - and " "ReSo,u-e"
made room for her Glad greeting they gave them
too, as British seamen give More than half the
crews were away when the - Investigators partes
came in, but by July everybody had returned They
had found islands where the charts had guessed there
sea- and where they had guessed there was land
had changed peninsulls into islands and Islands in-
TO peninsulas. Away off beyond the 18th parallel,
Mr. McCInock had chrstened the ftrthest dot Of md
Ireland's eve if his native island were peerlng
off into the unknown there-a great islani which VIII
be our rthest now for years to come had been named
Prince Patrck's Land. in honor of the baby prince
who was the youngest when they left home. VIII he
not be tempted when he is man, 10 take crew like
another Maloc and younger sons of queens should
20 and settle upon this tempting god-chd! They had
heard from Sir Edward Belchers part of the squ dron
they had heard from England,-had heard OF every
thing but Sir John Franklin. They had even found an
ale bottle Of Capt Collinson's expedton,-out not
stick nor a straw 70 show where Franklin bis
had lived or died. Two officers Of the investigator
were sent home to England this summer BY ship from
Beechy Island, the heal quarters-and thus we heari
IN October, lS53 Of the discovery Of the North West
Passage.
After their crews were on board again,-and the
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