Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-22

the very foe on which they were !; other
wise they must have perished.
They all seemed tolerably well. Capt.
Tyson complained of swelled legs
and feet, but nothing serious is the mat
ter with him. When they left the Po-
laris all on board were in good health.
In reference to the way in which the
Polaris got away from the party which
was rescued from off the ice, Capt.
Tyson states that he felt little anxiety
at first, thinking she would soon come
to their relief
ST set my co1ors," he said, Gas she
steamed down along the shore, but the
vessel was soon lost to sight in bend of
the land, and behind what I took to be
Northumberland Island. The piece of
ice was on commenced drifting south
ward. AS the wind hauled to the north
east, opening little bay to the north
east of Northumberland Island, I saw a
vessel in the harbor there. Her sails
were furled.' No smoke was issuing
from her smoke-stack, that I could see
I then attempted to bring my boats
across the foe in an easterly direction,
hoping to find water and reach the shore.
L succeeded in dragging one boat across,
and took to the water and attempted to
reach the shore some distance below the
vessel. We were then drifting very
fast, and the gale was blowing fresh,
with great violence, from the north
east, and showing very fast and drifting.
I was driven back in the ice again and
compelled to haul my boat out. Night
closed on me, and carried us to the
southwest. In the morning we were
about thirty miles southwest of where
the ship went into harbor. A heavy sea
was running, which broke up my foe
piece, separating us from six bags of
bread and one boat. I saw a vessel un-
der steam and canvas, rounding the
point to the northwest. Thinking she
would come to our relief, gave myself
no extra anxiety, but soon we were
doomed to disappointment, and from
that time until the Tigress rescued us
we never got glimpse of the Polaris. !"
DIR. Hayes Interviewed-He Thinks Capt.
| Hall was Murdered by MutinOus Men.
| DR.. I. I. Hayes, the Arctic explorer,
in an interview with New York CORE
| spondent relative to the failure of the
Hall expedition, expressed the opinion
that the Polaris was unfit for the SER
vice, and that the injury to the vessel
Capt. Hall, said the Doctor, was 464
miles from the North Pole he (HalD
has proven what have predicted long
ago, that Smiths sound was navigable,
and was the true passage into the open
polar sea, which he seems to have
reached. Why he was driven back L
cannot tell !; probably by drifting ice
fields or gales of wind, but L have no
doubt that he had reached the polar sea.
There is one remarkable fact about his
explorations He had constant SUM-
shine all the time, and the survivors,
who were drifting down the south
waters. were all the time without ray
of sunshine. I can't understand why
the ship, when it was SO near the North
umberland island, would draw up be-
fore the ice and discharge its cargo on
it. T think there was dissension on
board, and it looks to me as though this
party had been determined to leave the
ship. There is mystery about this
part of the report that cannot fathom.
I think Capt. Hall has done a glorious
thing. He has gone further north with
his ship than any human being ever did
before him, although others have gone
as far in sledges. Capt. Hall seems to
have broken the icebergs of Smith s
sound, which baffled both previous. ex-
peditions.
He succeeded in reaching the point
where both Kane and claimed to have
seen the open Polar sea, in latitude
S2:16, the most northerly latitude eve1
reached by any ship. His ship was 21s
miles further north than Kane's ship.
can't understand how the survivors were
left to the mercies of the foe, unless
there was difficulty on board the ship
At the outset, at Drisco, there was som'
difficulty between Hall and Buddington
This was settled by the captain of thu
Congress.
There was something very mysteriou
! in Capt. Halls death. I wouldn't hk
to say that he was killed by one of tn
men in mutiny, but it would almos
look SO. I have never known of an.
one dying in that region of apoplexy
and Capt. Hall certainly did not lool
like an apoplectic man. 1 think ther
is strong probability that the people OF
: board the Polaris are safe, and that tn
vessel will be back here by September
! The men who deserted the ship prob
l ably did so because of Halls death. I'll
4 was brave and resolute man, and stou
g with a determination to reach the Mort
: Pole if it would take him five years t
s do it. He was one of the pluckiest me
I ever saw, and would certainly hav
stayed two years more to accomplish hi
!, purpose, if death had spared him
q Death or murder, don't know which.
!, Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian Ir
: stitute, thinks the Hall expedition fs
e from a failure, and has no doubt
t realized many of the objects in view
I sending it out.
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