Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

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He viii Pursue..The Vessels On
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by the Government.
From the New York World, a5th.
Captain G. F. Hall, the Arctic
explorer, lectured last evening at
Packer Institute, Brooklyn; before
the Long Island Historical society.
The object of the lecture was to ex-
plain the route which Captain Hall
proposes to pursue on this his third
voyage to the Arctic regions, and
the object he proposes to attain,
namely, to reach the North pole.
The first part of his address was
devoted to recapitulation of his
previous voyages, illustrating, as he
proceeded, by large map of the
Arctic regions, which was suspend
ed at the rear ofthc platform. This
part of the lecture he had often Civ
en- before, in previous lectures. He
lelicves his previous five years ex-
rerience of living in the frozen re-
gions peculiarly qualified him to
attain the object of the present voy-
age. He has stood on the spot
where rest the remains of the last
of Sir John Franklin's party, and as
he stood there he has asked himself
the question why he should have
been so healthy, while all who had
gone before him had perished with
the scurvy, ana the answer caine
quickly, because he was an ester of
Paw meat. God designed that DE
natives of those countries should
eat of the provisions of the country.
These were whales, seals and wal
russes in great abundance, and fish
can be drawn from the water by
the ton-as good Goldfish as can be
found anywhere. There was no
fear, therefore, of any scarcity of
provisions during the sledge jour
ney that he proposed to make.
THE PROPOSED ROUTE.
In the early part of 1871, or about
May, he will leave again, and will
never cease his labors until he has
put his foot upon the nineteenth
parallel of north latitude. He will
go first to Newfoundland, and stay
about a week to obtain some sealcrs
to make up his party, from thence
he will proceed to the western coast
Of Greenland, to procure some skins
and supply of stock fish; but he
will not, as he did last time, make
the mistake OF getting his dogs
there. There is too much of civiliz-
ed blood in the dogs of this region,
and they cannot stand the hardships
that the dogs born ard reared fur
ther west can. OF all the dogs of
the Arctic country, none re equal
to the dogs of King Williams
island. They can stand the depri-
walton of food better than any other
breed. They are bred to it. While
puppies, they are kept almost in a
starving state, and only fed when
they attain their full growth. In
consequence of this apprenticeship
to starvation, they can, at a pinch,
90 without food for two weeks. He
will proceed from Greenland across
Davis straits to the native place Of
the Esquimaux, and there obtain
some few dogs, about fifty in all.
From thence he will pursue the
route Of the English whalers; cross
ing Bafin's bay he will 60 to Smiths
island, and from thence westward
through Jones' sound, following
that about two hundred miles, then,
after getting that distance, from
what he knows Of the trend of the
land, he will turn to the north and
go as far as practicable before win
ter sets in. 1t may be that he will
not get higher than the parallel Of
78 degrees; of that he does not care,
but he hopes to get as far as 80 de-
grees. There he will winter, and
in the spring of 1872, with all his
preparations complete, he will start
on a grand sledge journey to the
pole.
HIS OFFICERS.
His sailing master has had thirty
years. experience on the sea, and
twenty of them has been passed in
the Arctic regions. The man has
full faith in him and the enterprise,
and American nayigators generally
believe that he will succeed. His
first and second officers have each
had ten years Arctic experience.
HIS VESSEL.
He will have steamer, brig
rugged, which he selected at Wash
ington after looking at great many
vessels; but it may be after all that
he will not take this vessel, for the
reason that he can get at a much
lower figure a Greenland sealer.
They have for many years been
building their vessels with especial
reference to Arctic necessities, and
it may be that such a vessel will
better suit his purpose. A vessel
for the Arctic waters must be of a
peculiar shape and peculiarly