The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-22
WHEELING w. VA. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 2s, 1873

me aick and my stomach bad. Same
morning he get very sick, vomiting. AZ.
ter i've days he feel better; wake up and
say he want TO see my little girl, and say
to her, he think no would leave here attel
he get better. He get four doctor
books to try and see what make him
Sick. he study hard and say to me
that name is making me sick. Joe ex.
plains that he Captain HAll here pointed
10 name in one Of the books which be
read out OF. Il was something about
poison, l think: Alter hall die, every
body was watching one another. Me no
understand what they mean. All afraid.
Somebody put poison in the water, bread
or something. 1t look like he was poison
ed 10 me ali the same. Buddington
didn't like to 60 to the cabin. He was
Quarreling all the time.
Hans Christians statement upon this,
though much brieier, Is to thesame effect.
The correspondent says the expedition
had passed what Kane supposed TO be the
Polar Sea, which now proved to be a
sound. Beyond this they penetrated into
Robinson's channel, and were there on
the last day OF August, 1871. Many i'm
portant circumstances unmistaka6ly In
dIeated the existence Of an unirozen
ocean beyond the channel. Wild weather
with fog and mists brought down by
norther,y winds could come from no
other source. Land was visible to the
north and west Of this body Of water lor
q great distance. Now was the moment
10 embrace the present opportuni'
ty, which was liable to be de-
ieated by tho slightest sudden
change in the continuance ol their hith-
erto successful adventure and the glorious
goal for which they had hRzzarded so
much. But here, on the eve Of an easy
victory, arose that fatal difference OF opin.
ion which blasted all heroic efforts and
prospects and rendered fruitless that
mighty energy and labor which had al
ready led him such distance over the
barren and unhospitable regions Of the
unknown north. Tho sailing master, Bud.
dington, had several times expressed his
anxiety TO go no further, and strongly
urged the necessity OF reLreating to win
ter at Port Hope, nearly two hundred and
fifty miles south oil their present adHAn-
tageous position. Capt. Hall determined
to proceed II possible, and would not con-
sent 10 this latter proposition. Budding
ton, however, persisted. Before conclud-
ing TO retreat Hall called a council, con.
sisting of himself, Capt. Tyson, Chester,
the Mate, and BuddingtOn, 10 consider
which course was most advisable. At
this council Capt. Tyson strongly aGvo-
Gated Capt. Halls views, and urged the
impropriety Of dcsisting. The brave and
the right cause was over.ruled, TO which
circumstance it Is possible Capt. Hall owed
his death. II the vessel had continued
on its course as Capt. Hall desired and
urged, that the expedition would, in all
probability have been crowned with sue
cess, and dreams Of geographers and ex-
plorers have been realized but an unac-
countable timidity Of spring, Of craven
coWardice or other improper motives an
initiated the hopes Of Capt. Hall. Bud
dington, from the position which he occu.
pied, was master Of the situation. He
said thus far have you gono you shall go
no further, and he was obeyed, reluctantly
of course, as a matter Of necessity.
It Is impossible 10 analyZe the
motives which prompted Budding
ton from his knowledge Of the
Arctic regions. He must have known
that 1t was as dangerous to turn back as
to proceed. II the vessel was TO be
frozen in, she might as well be frozen at
one place as another. The fact that Capt.
Tyson supported the views Of Capt Hall,
furnishes an additional confirmation that
the latter was right, and Buddington
wrong. The blame, II there Is any blame
attending the failure Of 1.-THE expedition, will
cleave to Buddington, unles he can, If still
living satisfactorily explain what now
seems TO be his unaccountable conduct.
1t is not too much to say that his action
blasted all hopes OF his superior. AL
though thwarted In his grand designs for
time, the explorer did not abandon his
investigations, but in company with the
Esquimaux men and the mate, started
upon q sIedge expedition, from which he
returned 10 die. Capt. Hall appears to
have been the only one Of the scientific
department who ever Ventured away
from the ship.