The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-21

be anticipated from venturing further, such as IL
incident q ali times 70 an expedition OF che kind.
yet they say that it ives their duty co pursue the
object for which 1t was instituted unmindrui Of the
danger, which was in fact not greater than pre-
viously. Before concluding TO retreat
HALL CALLED 4 COUNCIL.
consisting OF himself Captain Tyson, Chester tthe
mate) and Buddington, to consider which course
was most advisable. At this council Captain Tyson
strongly advocated Captain Halls views, and urged
the Improperly OF desisting. The brave and the
right cause was overruled, to which circumstance
1t is possible that Captain Hall owed his death.
II the vessel had continued on its course, as Cap
tain Hall desired and urged. the expedition would
in all probability have been crowned with success
and the dreams OF geographers and explorers been
realized; but an unaccountable timidity, the on
spring or craven cowardice or other i'm
proper motive, annihilated the hopes OF Cap
tain Hall. Buddington, from the position
which he occupied, was master OF the situation; he
said 'Thus far have you gone-you shall 60 no
further" and he was obeyed reluctantly Of course,
as a matter OF necessity. 1t is impossible to
anaIyse the motives which prompted Buddngton.
From his KIN owiedge OF the Arctic regions he must
have known that it was
. AS DANGEROUS TO TURN BACK AS TO PROCEED
and that II the vessel was to be frozen In she might
as well be frozen In at one place as another. The
fact that Captain Tyson supported the views Of
Captain Hall furnishes additional confirmation that
wrong. Great expeditions have often failed
through the ignorance, incompetence or obstinacy
OF subordnates, and 1t was so In this particular
instance. The blame If there is blame attending
the failure OF the expedition will cleave to Bud
dington unless he can, II still living, satisfactorily
explain what now seems to be his unaccountable
conduct. 1t is not too much to say that his
action blasted all the hopes OF his superior.
GREAT MANS END.
Although thwarted In his grand designs for the
time. the explorer did not abandon his investiga-
lions, but, in company with the Esquimaux men
and the mate, started upon the sledge expedition.
from which he returned to die. Captain Hall ap-
pears to have been the only one Of the scientific
department who ventured.
\ So died ana was buried Captain Han-buried,
like Sir John Moore, by ''the lantern dimly burn
ing" but unNghted by the ray Of the. assistant
moon In the bowling wilderness OF frozen Ice,
where the football Of man was never heard nor had
the sound Of his voice ever disturbed the suprem-
acy OF the raging elements. Dust to dustl Ashes
to ashesi The beautiful, though rudely rendered
strains of the Episcopal service for the burial Of the
dead consigned the mortal to his primitive source
in that implacable territory OF impenetrable rock
and everlasting frost was there neither sod nor
ashes to constitute the hero's sepulchre.
And the blasts Of Boreas walled his requiem,
ter darkness, relieved but by the nickering flame
of single fiambeau, proclaimed the gloom OF hts
melancholy end, unerring presage Of the uncer-
tain light now alone remaining to direct the prog
ress OF the survivors. Rest thee, then, undaunted
soldier faithful In thy futile fight against the freaks
and frocs OF tickle fortune, honored. though fruit
less farer in the former fate OF aultess, fearless
Though the tomb Of thy material remnant be not
enshrouded meath the green sward OF thy loved
and loving parent land; though thou sleepest in
company with the creeping and proving denizens
81 that icy, night-bound shore, yet shall thy name
49,
and the friends OF science and, save that the same
surroundings cannot deck thy grave and enshrine
it in their affections by those typical tokens, we
may say, with the poet, OF thou who art far from
the land:-
on, breathe not his name; let 1t rest In the shade
Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid;
Sad silent and dark be the tear that we shed
AS the night dew that falls on the grass DER his
head. t
AFTER HALLS DEATH.
During the remainder Of that Winter the weather
in Polaris bay was very mild for that locality.
Captain Tyson says that the temperature was
zero, or s, 10 or Is degrees below.
About the latter part of the first winter it was
one day So degrees below. March was the coolest
month, the thermometer being below 40 throughout.
There was much moisture in the air, weather
very foggy, aurora borealis seldom visible. The
ice constantly broke up and was swept away
south. There were many very
HEAVY GALES or WIND.
He concluded that II they did not find the North
Pole they certainly had the Wind Pole. The wind
went at the rate OF fifty and sixty miles an hour.
The scientific people could keep no account OF It,
1t often blew them nat down on the ice. He picked
up pebbles on the ice mile and two miles from the
mountains, whence the wind had blown them
down. The cloudy weather, fogs and mists led him
to believe that there was an expansive ocean i'm.
mediately north OF where the ship was-an ocean
probably beset with drifting ice. They might, ne