Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-22
BuddingtOn Determined to Send
Tyson and his Party to
He'll the First OPP
pOrtunity.
The MurderOus Mutineer Frus-
trated d-The Proposed Aban-
dOned Party Saved to Tell
The Story.
Statements of EsQuimaux Joe
and Hans Christian Con-
flrming the Dreadful
Deed.

Captain Hall had good health at th,
time of returning from the sledge expe
dition. He was not sick when he CAM
en- board, but complained soon after
ward, and said that the heat of the cabi1
affected him. L asked what he woulC
have, and was anxious to get somethinl
nice for him. He didn't care about apy
thing but a cup of coffee, and didn'
drink even that. He was sick a fort
night, and talked very little. He wal
perfectly delirious the last few days.
think he was paralyzed in one side
There was nothing sudden about his
death. He was attended by DIR. Bessil
and Mr.. Mnotor, who did everything il
their power to alleviate his sufferings
His death made US all very sad. Cap
tain Tyson, speaking of Captain Hall!
death, said: Captain Hall was sicl
fifteen days. He was insensible wher
he died. He started from the ship on s
sled expedition northward on the tenth
of October. He was absent fourteen
days and returned on the twenty-fourtt
of October to the ship. On the eighth
of November ne died land was buried OIL
the eleventh. His grave is four miles
south and southeast and about five hun
dred PAGES distant from the observatory
in Poiaris bay, which is in latitude 81 o3SH
longitude &c 54>. On shore we erected a
board over his grave with an inscription
giving his name; age, fifty years; date
of death and command of North Polar
expedition. All hands, except Cook,
attended the funeral. It was a dark,
dismal, cold, windy and disagreeable
day. The wind was mournfully howl.
ing, and the hearts of all were enveI-
Oped in the deepest sadness. | held a
lantern, and by the light of it the beau
tiful service OF. the Episcopal church
was read by Mr.. Bryant. Few of those
present at the burial will forget the
deeply affecting scene. Old sailors,
whose faces had been bronzed by sum-
mer suns, and frigid in arctic seas. wept
aloud. Captain Hall was universally
beloved, and his death, at a time
when the great enterprise promised
so hopefully, was felt by his sur
vivOTs to be an irretrievable loss.
Those thoughts were uppermost In
the minds of all, and when the funeral
party returned to the ship there was q
hushed silence attending the perform
ance Of every duty. Esquimaux Joe.
in a published statement, speaks in a
way of Captain Budding
ton, the sailing-masteT of the Polaris,
and says that Hall was poisoned, and
that Hall so expressed himself to him,
saying there was something bad in the
coffee which he drank on returning from
the sledge expedition; that it made him
sick, aud Hans Christians statement is
to the same effect. The prevailing inn
preston among the unfortunate nine
teen who were left behind was that Bud
dington had wilfully abandoned them
to their fate. He had been anticipating
the breaking up of the ice forsome time,
and if he had wished to have TYSON
and his companions on board he could
easily have represented matters TO them
in such y light that they would not
have ventured to be absent at so criti-
cal juncture, but no such intimation
was given to the men on the ice. The
vessel did not drift away so suddenly
that the men could not have been res
cued from their perilOus position. Ty-
son says: I" L could have gotten aboard
the vessel that night and been there
now, but would not leave the women
and children. My duty was on the ice.
and l thought he would get back to us
the next day, which he could have done.
The breaking away was caused by the
foe to which the ship was fastened
drifting in between the land and some
icebergs that were jammed. When the
jam broke up the foe and vessel broke
away. 1t was about nine or ten O'Clock
at night, with the temperature about
zero. That evening it had been nine
teen degrees above. Captain Tyson
thinks that the i'll feeling and bad de-
signs of BuddingtOn and a few
Others, who were his accomplices,
had continued from the first on ac-
count of Captain Halls determination
to so as far north as possible, and Bud
dington's determination, from fear or
whatever cause, that he should not.
After Halls death most of the Others
Were in favor of continuing and push
ing north, and Tyson says that Bud
dlngton several times expressed his de-
termination to send them, Tyson and
his party, on the road to he'll as soon as
an opportunity offered. He char
acterized Buddington as a great
scoundrel, tand declares that he pur-
posely abandoned them to destruction.
He gives Myers the character of being
energetic and qualified in his DEPART
ment, but thinks he was not sufficiently
aware of the condition of affairs at the
time of the separation, and the posi-
oillty OF getting them rescued, to give
any opinion upon it. The Germans, ac-
cording to his account, ruled the ship
alter Halls death, and there was neither
law nor system on board, every one
working entirely on his own account.
Captain Tyson did not speak fully as
to the death of Captain Hall. He ap-
peared to be deeply grieved, and was
reticent upon subjects connected with
his adventures that especially touched
his feelings, even his own sufferings.
No doubt Captain Tyson and Mr.. Nv
ers are in possession of information
which they are unwilling to commune
cate yet, but which will doubtless be-
come public at the proper time. In the
Esquimaux's story, Joe says, part
ly in answer to inquiries, and
partly speaking on his own
account, without being interOgated, and
is as follows: II am very fond of Cap
tain Hall; didn't like Buddington, he
always talking behind back, tell story
all time; some men were in st. John
and some in ship; they used TO quarrel;
! went with Captain Hall with the pur-
pose of going in sled to the north; after
Hall died BuddingtOn wouldn't 60; /
tell Buddington come to go north; he
wouldn't let me go; Buddington and /
quarreled good deal about it; went with
Hal on the last sled, and Hans and
Chester, the mate. We went fifty miles
north Of the ship on the ice and land.
We found muskOx tracks on the land,
which were nearly all gone when we
came back to the ship. Hall told me,
when sick, that somebody had given
him something bad. He was sick two
weeks. Buddington did not take care
OF him. / think it was not right; it
made me feel bad. The sick
man was good man, too.
his throat swelled; could not drink:
stopped up with him every night with
ah0ther man; Hall was in the cabin; /
talked to Hall much; he no talk to
others much as me; / did not see Hall
IN the tirst night after he came aboard:
was with him in the afternoon. he
looked well and happy, and spoke nice:
the four of us-Hall, Chester, Hans and
Joe-had coffee when we came aboard.
had mine in my own room: Hall
In the cabin and two others in the gal
Iey. At ten O'clock that night nv wife
told me that Mr.. Hall was very sick.
He ate something next
morning. ] go see him and say what
The matter. He all alone in cabin. He
,ay you pretty well, Joe? L say yes.