Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-29
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HlGHEB TRAN rHE AUsrEIANs
llr. HAYES. IN q letter % TIE Ner York "a
Writes: wy
The route 70 the Pole by way OF smith s,p,s
Was bret TIED by llr Kane, ana 10 IRA .tics hif
VAS fret demonstrated bv mvSt-f Cr,sslrg !,
smith Sound With dog sled gee over the See fro,S
l'r. kAue's winter quarters. 4 disrovtrel aul
reached Grinuel Isni. finding everywhere nesr
q. smooth belt % ice % the lsst winters freeF-
nc. prav'r, II. ~ 49,. -. center and eastern
SIDES 20 the Scaud were ohokcd with besvr AMI
hlmOst impossible hummOcks the west coast va
ehtiftly Tree when the previous winter had 80
~, -a.,l, isot iSlorted % Or Kane. and upon
Hluoh published the opinion that by huyyiny
We west coast free passage could h. ~
~ SueN We S"uh1. pom the strength o.
ms argument my expedition OF i>66 vas
organized but not having nv reasop a.
lack OF means he steam rover which 4 A.
$40, was unsole 70 reach the west coast i'm
we tteth OF heavy gales and drifting ice-relds
ana VS. fofcId into winter quarters win m,
little schooner badly crippled. on the easf so
~ ls,iluIe = !, In th's respect NV fortune
was exactly that OF DR.. Kane, neither of NJ
having steam power. From winter 1varte-s y
travelled north With d0g-sledces over 80 -.
iearly so mi!es, measured ~ the CROW 1ise
latitude - my highest determined t.,sifi,r, a.,
s0lsr altitude being ~" &c on GrinuelI sDs
Beyond tbis msce g0Oa pull north ward. IN
having no Srlsr altitude could not IN nv nos
ton beyond II 3 with accuracy. Carf Han
trsversed Smith Sourd In the steamer PoIaris
without difficulty, A. lad lCng before preIirtsI
S9tld ne dome Anc passing over the route which
] had passed over VITA cog slcdgCs, he reach Il
the open water Which had GIFTED. lis hishesf
Latitude " a. - 1r.-somp twenty i've ~ tlfrtv
miles neaEer The Pole than mine. But ne Wss
there m August, q most open month While
Z sac there in Nay, ht.UTe tbaBfug had fairly
st IN. lie vas in aship, and d la \ dog sIefre.
bot the 0ueu sea n ~ 90 both cur ewes the same
and, az believe, m both cascs illlmitable g.
ceEt here sut there ohsrrurted NV io,se
drifting fields e. 'Ce. The highway 20 tie Pole
was. believe, Cpen "a Captain Hall. aud hal
De lived Relieve BE would have reached H. 4
believe the same thing could have been dome
~ nv Old commander, Dr. Kane. ~ AUGUST
l~'b, aud ty myself IN f,to, Lad either 81 us
been blessed with steam. ant 4 believe. A. 4
have repeatedly asserted publicly that ia
sound can lie uayi GatCd with stram power auv
year, AID in proof OF this We may cite the fac.
t0at captain Hail experienced no diHtrnIfv
" hstever in the POlaTis which A. III .f rsre
but pleasure voyage, steamed IN six dav.
frOE peTnayik To the highest point ever
reaNned 10y any vessel. and even tie Land Ia
sighted beyond must, think have been s1,'-,-
thing Further north than lattude ~ . which
seems q have been the northsrnulosf point-
ARE sienns-keen by the galleut officers OF
OF the TegetthOf For iH ISL trscai the ont
line OF the land, which I named Cane Union. on
the west Hfe timperfectly traces, 70 y true,
owing 10 the great Difficulties OF the sItuafioni
20 LATITUDE = 70 and Captain Han must have
seen land 6eFond this.
So ] must think the American GriaueU Land
y. SeA nave DtSh HiRhted "A uttt TURNER north
than The Francis JCSep Land OF Messrs Paver
and Weyprecht. / take some pride n thinkinv
this, as IL is not only an American 4 .rOyery bnE
my own, and has been trayeTsed tv no other
white man except my one companion IN Ts5I
sid my three companions in 1851. 4 think
may eth therefore, claim she discovery of ths
Eost northern body OF land On the globe. for on
the Greenland side Captain n an did not extend
the surveys OF Dr. Kane (Which terminated
sbOut latitude ~ 80 80 far north a. hs sighted
beyond my own surveys on the opposite side. 4
have said this much in order that might show
some grounds for asserting my belief NIth vou
that Smiths Sound h. s'the most, OF only. avail
able route TO the Pole"