Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-02-04

q southern wind causes this drift-ice 10
drive up towards this ice-aow, and vesssl
passing through is liable to be nipped, as
It is called-that is, caught between drift
and Hoe. Theh unless she il 50 shaped
that she will rise on to the top 0f the ice,
she must inevitably be crushed--nothing
that ever was built is strong enough to
Withstand the pressure. So this steamsf
If he takes her, thust bu strengthened BY
beams and cross.beams, and her bow must
be made entirely solid for 1t least ten feet,
90 that she shall be ram. Then the pro-
peller must be SO arranged that it can be
lifted out Of the water Instantly. BY US.
ing steam Captain Hall thinks the object
of the expedition can be most certainly
attained. No exploring expedition has
ever before had this ageut to aid them.
All his crew will be trained tn live as the
Esquimaux do, aud then they can stand
the cold; but they must eat
RAW MEAT. s.-...... p
And stick to train oil. He Captain HalD
has eaten in one day fifteen pounds Of raw
meat, washed down with two and half
pints of train oil. While men thus live
they can defy King Cold. A whale in
those regions is godsend, one whale be-
ing equal to GOO oxen, and affords the best
eating that Captain Hall has ever enjoyed.
10 fact, he has always enjoyed his food
better in the Arctic regions than anywhere
else; and even here among civilized peo.
pie the old longing for raw meat comes on
him SO strong sometimes that he goes away
to his closet, where no one can see him,
and has good feed of raw meat. And
there is virtue in it which is killed when
it is cooked. Captain Hall appealed to the
physicians of his audience in support Of
this assertion. Captain Hall next de-
scribed the process of building a snow.
house, aud extolled it as the most palatial
of residences, and to sleep naked in snow
house as the acme of bliss. All the Esqui-
maux he found slept in nude state, and,
said he, "as did tho Esquimaux so did l."
THE COOPERATION OF GOVERNMENT.
The President and Congress have aided
most literally. They have confidence in
him, and believe that he will plant the
Stars and Stripes on the pole, attaining at
last tho. object for which the world has
been laboring for three centuries, and if
happiest Of his existence. There was an
exhilerating feeling that could not be de-
scribed in the knowledge that one has
gone little further than any of his fellows
have done before him. There was one
sentiment that had stuck by him all
through his former voyages. It was.
=" Look out, be careful, keep judgement on
your side"
HIS ONLY ANXIETY.
When he shall stand on the North Pole
there is one thing which will trouble him,
and that is, how shall he keep his chro.,
nometers regulated how shall he tell
whether they are gaining or losing! Every
direction then will be South. There will
be no north, no cast, no west. The
north star will be directly overhead,
or nearly SO, and on the first day of March
the sun will just appear above the horizon
and 60 round and round, day by day, never
rising or setting, but gradually attaining
greater altitude, until finally It will 90 to
the height Of 233 degrees, and then grad
uouy SC1 lOWCIs uutH W Su0 Sou Va OCp>
tember it will disappear, to be seen no
more for six months. What object can he
sight to regulate his chronou,eters? He
has asked the question Of the best talent
in tho country, aud no man can answer
him. In the Winter Of 1872 he will be
where no sun can shine, but in . fine place
for people fond Of. eating, for it will al
ways be dinner time-always IL o'clock.
He is having his chronometers constructed
to mark the whole twenty -four hours. and
he thinks all chrouometers should be
made iu that way. or s'Na
HE WILL NEVER GIVE UP.
If he cannot reach the pole ~ he will
stay another year, and, it necessary, Eve
years. No man can tell the length Of time
necessary. It may be thirty months, aud
it may take Eve years, but his crew will all
be sbippcd4 for the greater time, and at the
end of that time he hoped to stand again
on that platform and tell them of it,
Captain Hall was frequently applauded
during the lecture, and at its close 4 vote
Of thanks was rendered him, and with three
hearty cheers for the success Of the expo.
dition tho audience dispersed.-N Y.
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