, 1872-12-06
THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
Lecture by Dr.. Isaac Hayes, in the Michigan
Avenue Baptist Church, Last
Evening.
An Interesting Account Of His Ex-
perience while Hunting for
the North Pole.

! Church, last evening, under the auspices OF the
Star Lecture Course. There was full house.
A map some twenty feet square, on which the
Polar country WIS delineated, hung in front of
the audience, and was used to illustrate the dis
course. After a multiplicity Of sweet sounds On
| the organ produced by the dexterous minipu1a-
tlon of Falk, the hardy explorer appeared he
looked as if he had seen forty summers and an
Arctic winter thrown in, ia q brunette, of medium
| height, Of vigorous and hardy frame, speaks
we'll, and delivers an entertaining and instruc-
| tive lecture.
| He remarked that there was mistake in the
| title Of his lecture, as he was not at the North
! Pole, and il he had been and spent SIX months
| night there, he would have tsmade night OF
| it" indeed. CLaughter.] He had reached within
| 40 miles Of the Pole, howeyer,-nearert than any
| other human being, unless Captain Hall, who
! was now hemmed in the ice, spending his second
winter there, had already waved the Stars and
! Stripes right over the Pole. He hoped
Hall had succeeded, and would return
next year to tell them all about it.
The various efforts to hnd northwestern
| passage we're explained. h1cClintock WAS the
first to go through, having entered by Behring's
without his ship, which had to be abandoned.
This WAS in 1858, when he recovered some relics
OF Sir John Franklin. The expectation Of fnd-
ing a commercial passage was abandoned after
Franklin. Kane was sent out to seek Franklin,
but did not find him. The lecturer was with
Kane. He went again in 1860 in schooner OF
$50 tons. They sailed directly for the Greenland
Coast The first sight of Greenland WAS chilly
The mountains we're covered with SNOW, but be-
meath the cliffs were patches OF yerdure which
gave the name to the country, and we're vel
come to the travellers eye. The inhabitants OF
Greenland sailed to the American coast and pro-
ceeded as far south as Boston, between 1001 and
1909. Greenland was vast reservoir Of ice,
The interior Of the country was a field OF ice
1,200 miles long and 700 wide. From this field
great rivers flowed. There were great glaciers.
Chunks OF ice slid off and etarted on Southern
voyages to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
in circumference and 315 feet above water, and,
as ice was seven times as deep below as above
the surface, it's total height was 2,520 feet. 1t
weighed 27,000, ,000,0 900 Of tons, enough to sup
b1ers for the entire United States for 8
century, and if it could be sold in New York it
would moro than pay the national debt. lap
p1ause.J In spite Of the ice Greenland was in
habited. There we're colonies, and Christian
churches, and in many cases the Greenland
Christians performed their duties well. His ex-
pedition pushed up Bahin's Bay, and got along
very nicely until they met the ice flowing south
ward from the pole. Still they worked north-
crowded them against the iand. They lay under
the lee Of . 200 foot iceberg. out Of
the way Of the storm. The wind changed
and the pool Of water in which
they floated was encroached upon by the ice.
and the vessel was lifted with the power OF
10000 jackscrews high and dry on the top Of an
iceberg. At that time the brave sailor8 we're
betting with each other ns to whether the vessel
would go up higher or go down entirely.
were launched once more in their natural ele-
ment. Two days after they got to land and the
vessel was put into winter quarters. The
shades Of night were falling fast. They built .
to work to keep themselves warm for the win
ter.
In this happy city they had q morning sun
every twenty-four hours, though some Of them
was only one sunrise in the year. but it was
long sunrise. In the same way the approach of
darkness took three weeks to come or, and for
three months after they saw no sunlight at ALL
month never setting. They also had the stars
and the aurora borealis. The latter Was an un-
explained phenomena. He thought it WAS
caused by electricity. Anyway, it was Of great
asgReeno'' asssfs ba7 Th" va4s ass' 5 @ght mics nes
away from the nearest outpost Of
civilization. They had to live in their own lit
tie world, but fifteen men did not make much Of
world The night affected their complexion,
@ spermaeeti mace S Candles. @ TAI I4pplause:5 they spent
the winter reading books, teaching, school and
printing the Heekly Ne.os, and lecturing; they
had fiddler, but the fiddler fiddled ont all his
tunes, and they had to threaten to break his
fiddle over over his head if he did not stop fd-
ding. Laughter.] They had famous snorer
on board. His snore sounded weird in the
silence and loneliness of the Arctic regions.
The fiddler played the snore on his fiddle, and
the Bnore was chronicled in the paper The
snorer got mad, and the Weekly Neaos growing
personal, had to be suppressed the first assault