Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-05-16
BY TELEGRAPH
Halls Arctic Expedition.

New. Y DIX, May 10.
r a dispatch from ST. Johns. N |, p. dated
May 9th, suxs, The steamer Wallis arrived
from the seal fisheries This morning, bring.
ing news that the steamer Tigfess had come
into Robbers Bay, eighteen niles from here,
i having on board nineteen survivors Of Halls
Arctic Expedition. Capt. Hall died Of apop-
lexy and was buried on the shore. They
Lerected wooden cross to mark the grave.
He had recently returned from northern
sledge expedition in which he had attained
the latitude OF 81 deg. l6 min. He seemed
lin his usual health and had called the crew
into the cabin to encourage them with hopes
OF future rewards and stimulate them TO
renewed exertioa, when he was suddenly
struck downand expired. This party which
| had been landed from the Poaris, were ,lriv-
en- from her by gale, which burst her from
her moorings on October 10th, 1872. in lat
litude u s.. When they last saw the Polaris
she was under steam and canvass making tor
IIarstor cast SIDE OF Northumberland isiai.tl.
| She had no more boats left. OF the six which
she brought with her from the port Of New
| York two were lost III i northern ex. edition.
New YoRK, May IL.
DIR. Hays, the arctic explorer. in an i, ter
view reIatiyc to the future OF TIE Hall cx-
petition, expressed the opinion that the
Polaris was unfit for the service, and that the
injury to the vessel was caused by defects in
her building. Capt. Hall, said the doctor,
was GA miles from the North Pole. He has
proven what predicted long ago. that
Smiths Sound was M igabie and was the
true passage into the OPP npo!ar sea, which
he seems 10 have reached. Why he was
driven back, cannot tell--probabIy By DRIFT
ing ice fields or gales Of wind; but have
no doubt lie had reached the polar sea.
There is one remarkable fact about his ex-
plorations. lie had constant sinshlne all
the time, and the Survivors, who were DRIFT
ing down toe south waters, were all the
time without a ray Of sunshine. l cannot
understand. why the ship, when it was 50
near Northumberland Island, would draw up
before ice and discharge its cargo on it. l
think there wasa discussion Oh board. 1t
looks to me as though this pa ty had Diet r.
mined TO leave the ship. There is mystery
about this part of fhc report | cannot tathom.
think Hall has dnnc 4 glorious thing. Ii
las gone further north with his snip than
any human being ever did before him, al.
though others have gone as far in sledges.
Hall seems to have broken the icebergs OF
Smiths Sound, which baffled both prcyi us
expeditions. and succce led iii reaching the
point where both Ka.le and ella ned to have
seen the open polar sea, in latitude 50 deg.
81 min--tIle INST nor;h,rly latitude ever
reached by amy ship. His ship was 2I9
further north than Kane's ship. / cannot
understand why the survivors were left to
The niercies of the foe. unless there was some
difficulty on board the ship. AT the outset
there was some difficulty between Hall aud
3uddington, bit this was settled by the
Captain of the Congress. There was some
thing very mysterious in Halls death. L
would not like to shy that he waa killed by
one OF his men in a mutiny, but it oull al.
most look SO. Lave never known Of any
one dying i'll that region fapoplcxy, and
Capt. Hall certainly. did not i ok ike an
apopletic man. | thin!. there is strong
that the people on beard the po-
laris are safe. and that tue vessel will be back
here by Septembr. The men who deserted
the ship probably did SO because of uaIs
death. Ii; was brave and rcsolufe man.
and stout with the determination TO reaci,
the North Pole. lit would take him five
years to do it. He was one of the pluckiest
men lever saw. and wor Ill certainly have
stayed two years more to accomplish his pur-
pose, if death had spared him--death or
miuGer, don't kno" which.