New-York tribune., 1873-05-12

than Capt, PaTTy, VINO reaCicu INV ' q,
So As north of Spitzbergen. 1t was soon al'oi
his return from this expedition tna' Oap'.
Hall died on board the ship. one accoan. -,
says that he was struck down suddenly WIN
apoplexy in the act of encouraging DIS incn'
and while apparently in his usual ns'uSn
Another represents that he had been sicA ioi
two weeks. >r. y,
One more effort was made to reach the 10,
lar Sea. When that failed the Poii'riS S'aaso
for home. A few days later On August io.-3 80
she was beSet with ice and drlped 10 n''
az. Here portion of the crew lei' nor
There seems to be suspicion that they "o-
serted, but according to their own story 'ley
were employed getting provisions out upon ,'
ice, in the expectation that 'no 'nlp
must 20 to pieces In gale, "hen uio
broke ND and the POlaris was driven iro,i no'
moorings and disappeared in the aarAio'''
II is tho wonderful story oil the hino
teen persons left on the Ice Whlch .no
telegraph brought US on SATURDAY IUi
more than six months they drifted SOUTH
ward through the Arctic night. Occasion
allv they launched the boats they hau
with them and tried to pull toward
the Greenland coast but they were driven
back to the foe. A portion OF their proVls-
ions had been saved, and they eked them out
by killing occasionally seal or a ie" onuS'
SNOW huts gave them q little shelter. Tue
fat of the seals fed the fires and lights. me
ice upon which they 6oated was five miles IN
circumference when they were parted from
the shin on the 10Th of October. 1t was re-
duced in April to little fragment OF twenty
yards diameter, when they were pckeu up py
the Tigress, forty miles from the COAST OIL
Labrador. How terrible this Icy voyage
had been we may imagine by
glance at the map. They were driven from
the ship far up Bafiin's Bay, somewhere near
the entrance to Lancaster Sound. They were
rcscued well out in the open ocean. about the
latitude of Liverpool. Of the fate of the
Polaris. in which were Captain Buddlngton,
chief navigating officer, and thirteen others,
nothing is vet known. Her bow was some
what damaged, and she was making water,
but her condition was by no means desperate
and there is good reason to hope that she
may get clear of the ice during the coming
Summer. She had no boats left; but her
stock of provisions was abundant.
The records of the expedition, the scientific
| collections ana Ine JOuIIdio VI thO Oii'Oi' 90"
doubtless on the Polarls, and until she Is
! found we shall not know how much this latest
| Arctic voyage has added to the worlds store
of information. 1t does not seem probable
| that the results will prove commensurate with
the expenditure of life, suffering, and money
| We cannot believe that any Arctic voyage by
| the same route will ever justify the risk. But
whatever may be the practical value OF this
memorable expedition, Capt. Hall will be held
in honorable remembrance as true mar
tyr of science. He was not a man of scientific
education but he was one OF those sturdy,
strOng-willed, persistent men of action to
! whom the science of geography owes so many
of its most brilliant achievements. IL was
noble ambition which led him into the dreary
wastes where he Imet his death, and'we may
take some satisfaction in remembering that
although his chief purpose was not accom-
plished he succeeded in adding little to our
knowledge of the Polar coasts, and extending
by few miles our maps of region which no
human creature ever can inhabit. 3.