The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-23


actively engaged in the Medical Depart
ment Of the army from the period Of
his return home until some time after
the close OF the war. Since that period
he has been occupied with the preparation
ofthis work, and the elaboration and discus
sion of his discoveries. The work contains,
besides a discussion Of the important question
OF the open Polar Sea, graphic and complete
description of the Greenland ice. including
the formation and discharge of those vast
floating bodies OF ice called icebergs. upon
which subject DIR. Hayes has enioyed greater
facilities for investigation than any other ex-
plOrer-his journeys into the interior of
Greenland with that object forming a marked
feature in this volume, being of a character
previously unknown in Arctic explorations.
Indeed, no traveller besides DIR. HAYES has ever
succeeded in penetrating into the interior of
Greenland over the mer de gIace.
From the proot-sheets we select the follow
ing paragraph relative to the ferocity of the
Esquimaux dogs
Nothing could exceed their ravebous bunqer
The teroclty with which they tear into their
1000 exceeds anything that 1 nave eyer seen
ana nothing escapes their share fanps Tney
eat up their harness If not closely vyatcbed and
we are 0oneed to bring everything made of skin
mslde Jhe nut. Several OF the traces have dis
appeared down their rapacious throats 10
add TO our embarrassments, Jensen forgot one
nleht to cover over his sledVe (Knorrjs makes
Cne iOoI OF our NUT, and when we went
out III the morning, the sledge was torn TO
pieces, the lashlngs were all eaten and the
pieces OF the sledge were scattered over the
snow all around the camp. The brutes triel to
tear open our tin meat. cans with their wol8sh
4hn Ioe
OF skin.lln that was left some fur stockings
and made an end of KnOrT's seal-skin covered
meerschaum pipe, which he had imprudently
hung upon the upstander. Hemp lines now
make the sledge lashngs and traces and as a
consequence, the sledges are continually tum-
bling TO pieces, and the traces are constantly
breaking. Another dog tore open a seal-skn
to0acco-pouch shook out its contents and ate
1T; and another bolted our only piece
of soap. This looks bad tor our future
cleanliness, but thirty-two days, at these
low temperatures, have worn off the
sharp edge of fastdiousness. At first we had
always morning wash with a handful Of
snow; but latterly we are not so particular, and
we snail not grieve over the soap as much as
we might have done some weeks ago, The
WOtsh brutes fiji the air with the most hideous
cries. The spectral pack Of the Wild Hartz
huntsman never split the ear of beated ira
weller with more awful sounds than those whicn
come from the thrOats OF my wild beasts al
this present moment. The wretches would eat
us up if we gave them tine least chance. Knorr
stumbled among the pack yesterday, while
feeding them, and had not Mcdonald pouncad
upon them on the instant, l believe they would
have made meal OF him before he could rise"
Peterson & Brothers, who have Just pub
li9hed Lady Blessington's Country Quarters"
and Colonel Richter jones' "Quaker Soldier"
have received advance sheets of "Woodburn
Grange; Story of English Country Lite" by
VIM. Hewitt, which will Immediately be pub
lished by Charles W. Wood, Tavistocz street,
LondOn-who, by-the-way, is a son of the
distinguished and popular novelist, Mrs.
Henry Wood, author of EAST Lynne" Mr..
Hewitt is the husband OF Mary Hewitt,
poetess and novelist, and Joint author of the
Book OF the Seasons" He is the ablest
republican writer in England, and has
written in almost every department of litera-
ture-history, politics, spiritualism, poetry,
polemics, travels, science, and fiction.
HARPER's MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY.