The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-11-20
IFrom the Scientific Americana
Rescue of the Remaining Survivors Of
the P0laris.

The good news comes to us from Dun
dee, Scotland, of the safe arrival there in
good health of all the remaining sur
vivors Of the Hall artic expedition; con-
sisting of Captain Sidney o. Buddington
and twelve others After leaving their
encampment on the Greenland coast,
which they did in the latter part of June,
1873, in open boats, they sailed south
ward, encountering many dangers and
exposed to the severest hardships. They
landed at various points and searched
everywhere for cruising whalers. On the
Goth of July, 1873, they had the good
fortune to fall in with the Ravenscraig a
Scotch whaler, on board of which they
were Hospitality received and conveyed
to Dundee. They return to the United
States at once.
Captain Buddington reports that after
that fearful night which separated him
and his vessel from his comrades upon
the ice, he never saw them again. 1t was
with difficulty that the Polaris was kept
afioat that night, and they momentarily
expected she would go down. But they
finally reached the shore, where the ves-
sci was beached, and the party wintered
in a hut on the land, being supplied with
skins and walrus meat by the natives.
The incidents and results of this latest
and most eventful polar expedition may
be briefly summed up as follows:
On the goth of June. 1871, the steamer
Polaris, Captain Charles F. Hall, sailed
from New York on voyage of arctic ex-
ploration. In August, 1871, she had
reached latitude So 16|, the highest
point ever attained by any vessel Soon
after this the ship went into winter quar-
ters at Polaris Bay, latitude SO 38, and
Captain Hall organized sledge and boat
expeditions with view to further north
erly explorations. Soon after his return
from one of these expeditions, he was
taken i'll and died, on November s, 1871.
He was buried on shore, and there his
remains rest, near the north pole which
he so ardently endeavored to reach.
On the death of Captain Hall, Captain
Buddington, previously second in COM
mand, became master. On the opening
of the ice in August, 1872, Captain Bud
dington, finding further progress north
ward impossible, determined to return
home. and the ship started for the south
She was now unfortunately caught in the
ice, and drifted down helplessly for two
months, receiving injuries which caused
her to leak badly. Such was the con-
tinual crushing of the ice against the ves-
sci that Captain Buddington caused a
portion of the provisions and part of
the ships company to be landed on the
ice, expecting that all the others might
at any moment be obliged to follow On
the night of October l6, 1872, terrible
storm and utter darkness set in, during
which the Polaris broke away from her
icy moorings, leaving the hapless party
of nineteen persons on the ice. They
had provisions, boats and clothing. Next
day they saw the steamer but were them
selves unseen by those on board. Days
and weeks passed, and still the little
party waited for relief, clinging to the ice
cakes, exposed to the most extraordinary
perils, washed by the seas, drenched by
the rains. Their supplies of food were
swept away, but one or two guns were still
retained, with which they occasionally
succeeded in killing seals and bears, and
this preserved their lives. On the 3Oth
of April, 1873, after 81 months dreary
drifting, they were deserted upon the ice
by the British sealing steamer Tigress,
rescued. and safely landed at St, Johns,
Newfoundland,
The recent rescue and landing of their
former companions at Dundee completes
this remarkable artic narrative, which for
thrilling adventure and extraordinary
incident has no parallel in the previous
records of fiction or fact.