New-York tribune., 1873-05-22
ARCTIC ADVENTURES.

formed part OF the crew OF the P0ars ana VINO "oro
taken by the Tgress of the ice-foe on which they
had made one Of the most extraordinary voyages on
record arrived at St. Johns Newfoundland on the night
of the 18th instant reporter OF The Nep York Herdd
has succeeded in obtaining from them detailed state-
ments regarding the mysterious Illness and death OF
Cant Hall and the adventures Of their romantic jour
| ney the substance of which Is as follows:
| CAPT. HALLS SICKNESS AND DEATH.
The steward, John Heron, makes the following staIe
| ment In relation to Capt. Halls Illness:
Can't Hall mad good health up to the time OF return
ing from the sedge expedition He was not SICK "ned d
said that heat Of the cabin affected him I me was
fortnight and talked YER very asse IbinS he was
paralyzed on side. Heard no one say So ~ Was Vas
| nv own opinion There nothing sudden aD0us MS
death He was attended by Dr. Bessells and bir Morton
who did everything in their power 10 aeslaVJ Ior mi
over the entire company and was the first dscouragR
circumstance which had occurred ~ con @ i'"
Cant TYSON in speaking Of Capt Halls death, says:
Hall sick 10 days AT the hrst ne was h d1ed'
and then derous. He was nsensibe when no th oIeh.
| He started from the ship sled expeditlon n9rIn
the 10th Of October He was absent h ON }he
sth OF November died, and was buried on tne nth
His grave bore southsoutheast ana aoous h oVo p0e ~
distant from the observatory in Poars Bay' % Tc Was
in latitude $40 49, longitude 6l' ~ on he shore we
erected board over ms grave Th an paI eom
| mand Of North Polar expedition
joe the Equmaux gave in his broken English the fol
| lowing version OF Capt. Halls attack:
| Very fond OF Capt. Hall. We was crushed In Ice
Didn't like Buddingt0D; always talking behind oacA;
| asking story all time. ships stern broken Blow hard
when drove from ship Couldn't get aboard. Some men
here lin St. Johns aud some In ship used 70 quarrel
went with Capt Hall purpose to go sledge TO Nortb @
| two eye and two ear. 1 tell Buddington come to go
North. He wouldn't et me CO. Bnddingt9n % al anu qd
| aud Hans and Chester 0he mattel We went my mnes
north OF ship on Ice and and fG1mG % H cas u hack 10
ship Hall told me wnen sick somebody give MN & sVe me-
thing bad lie sick two weeks. BuddlngtOl dd not
of think IL right; made me 1eei Dau
| Sick man good man, too. Throat sweiled sOmetmngi
could MT drink Said he burn inside. stopped up wth
| him eyery night with another man he sleep wake,
| he sleep. Hall was In cabin. talked 10 nan M
much. lie no talk TO others much as me. didn't see
Hall IN after he calne aboard from SLED came
ABOARD with hm in afternoon He looked well HAPPY,
aud spoke nice. The four OF us-al Chester Ans anu
| JOe-nad coffee when came ABOARD hau mIno ~ NY
own ROOM underneah ea9 noot @ hat ncbt M mT %e told
| me Hall very sick; youlllng eat something's ,neAIs
morning go see him aud say, Wnat matter Ter ne a.,
alone IN cabin. He say, " You pretty We'll JOeI say
Yes" He say, You drink bad coffee last ngnti say
"No" | ask him. " Did he drink bad cofeeP' He say,
something bad in coffee drink last night, making o
sick stomach bad" same morning he get very SICK
say he want TO my little GIRL and 10 her be think
would leave her but diSnt like After he get Detter
sick lie study hard. and say 20 me, ''rnat name B -
maxim me sick.' lJoe explained that he capt, HAD
here pointed TO O In OF the books, which no
read oui.l IL something about poison, tllnk.
After Hall die everybody Watching one another. me no
understand what they mean. All AFRAID sOmeDOuy put
| down poison water, bread. or somethlng IL looked
like was poisoned to me me all same a as
| Hans CHRISTIANS statement to the same effect.
THE WINTER AFTER HALLS DEATH.
During the remainder of that Winter the weather In
Polars Bay was very mild for that locality. Capt Ty-
son says that temperature generally Zero So lO
or l5s below About the latter part OF the first Winter
was one day $50 below March the coolest month,
| tho thermometer being below 4Oo throughout. There
was much moisture In the arr weather very foggy
ror,hoSshs seldom visible Tne lee constantly broke
| up and swept away south. There were many very
heavy gales OF wind. lie picked up pebbles the ice
| "A and two miles from tle MOUNTAINS, whence lne
wind mad blown them down. The cloudy weather. fogs
anu msts led him believe that there expansive
| ocean Immediately north or where tue ship was-an
ocean probably beset with drifting ice. They might,
he says have continued north and pressed into the
ocean through RoDesons Channel asthey had plenty OF
coal He thinks the land there. which separated them
from the Sptzbergen Sea- very Dut no attempt
| was made to cross 1t. which would have been very
great advantage In determining the character or the
locality beyond. They twice attempted to ma harDor
north, but could not. Capt. Tyson continued don't
The sailing master, Buddngton several times wanted TO
stop vessel aud To winter at Port Hope where
eyed it not possible from Buddngton's mlsrepre-
sentatons. Buddngton was next IN command alter
| Halls death, but lie kept discipline. Hail was
strict discphnarian. the did not like Hall at hrst,
Sa, G dpne S WA; tempered With love- aud that
| wnat he did was Tor the interest Of all
| THE GREAT CATASTROPHE.
Buddington abandoned the expedition altogether, and
started for home on Aug H. On Oct 10 the ship had
drifted from Latitude 10 80, where she
tered heavy gale from southeast, and was jammed by
heavy pressure OF ice and bergs. The ice lifted her
out OF the water that she only drew six feet and lay
on her beamends every low tide At the six water
mark she broke her stern, and started woodends. On
the gh OF the l5th fearing would be crushed, and
vessel being reported leaking very badly, an order
| was given to snift provisions from ship to Ice.
They continued landing for two or three hours when
the pressure ceased Tyson then went on board and
asked the sailing II the vessel King
than usual; he reported that she was not.
Tyson the pumps aud ascerained that she was
not making any water than she had been all Sum
He went ou the ice again Tne rescued party
the Ice alongside the vessel where the proys-
deposited; the remainder OF the ships
pany board The Ice commenced 10 crack, ana,
In few more, broke into pieces. TIE vessel
broke fasteuing aud was SOON lost to sight III
| the storm and dafkuess
been from the ship, Of which they succeeded In
securing fourteen cans OF pemcan, eleven and half
| bags of bread, ten dozen and two-pOund Of
meat and SOUP fourteen hams, small bag OF chOco
late, weighing twenty pounds some musk-oN SKINS
few blankets, numOer OF rifles and abundant ammuni
| ton. . -, , =. - A..
had she been properly moored that night. she would
have able to hold although Tyson says that he
expected her To 20 as soon as the pressure or ice
Heron says:-'I made a rush for the vessel and sung
out for u ne but they would not give mo one Chester
| and BuddIngtOn were standing on the gangway and
| could have thrown was with four others
the piece OF that had provisions on it, IL cracked of
| and went adrift. We got back to the man now In
boat, winch sunk under one OF the men, but We
tyson SAYS could have got aboard the vessel that
| night and been there now. but would not leave the
tbouSht he would get back to US next day, which he
could DONE The breaking away was caused by the
foe which the ship fastened drifting IN between
the land aud some bergs that ammed The jam
broke up the foe and the vessel broke away III was
about 10 O'Clock In the night; temperature about
zerothst evening had been nineteen degrees above
We did not more than onetenh OF the PROVISIONS
| that ON the ice"
| AN OCEAN VOYAGE AN IcE-FLoE.
Now began the drift from the 18th Of October S2 to
the SOth Of April Is73 six months, or l days. The
abandoned party had fortunately two boats, tho only
remaining boats belonging 70 the Poaris. The provi-
sions lasted until the end OF February when the party