The New York herald., 1875-10-31
run ARCTIC rnIp

PORTSMOUTH. Oct. 1G. 1876.
The Arctic ship Pandora, commanded by
Captain Allen Young, with Lieutenant Lii
Iingston, Royal Navy, a. second in authority,
has Just arrived from her exploring voyage in
The Arctic seas She touched at Ivigtut,
south Greenland, July 30, having met
with ice of Cape Farewell, In a strong
wind, without accident Proceeding close
10 tue coast views Of magnificent scenery
were revealed and skotched by our artist
We reached Disko August 7, and found the
Alert and Discovery already gone north,
while the Yalorous had gone southwark. We
stopped here for twelve hours. and then pro-
seeded up Waigat Strait 10 Coal Cliffs Kud-
ik, where we took in forty tons of coal
Twelve hours after we experienced a
dense FOG to the northwest, and gale
up Waigat Strait We moored the
ship 10 an iceberg which capsized
In the night with considerable risk to the
ship We visited the interesting settlement
Of YuyarsusGk, where We bought dogs and
embarked a number Of Esquimaux women to
assist in coaling. We reached Upornavik
IN the 18th, bat only stopped one hour, in
order 70 send Lomers ashore 10 buy more
dogs. The Governor came aboard and in
formed us that the Alert and Discovery left
there July %. lie considered the season
favorable for navigation, owing to the prcya-
ience of northerly winds during the spring.
We bore away from Upornavik under sail
with a strong south wind and heavy rain
threatening gale, and on the evening of the
10th arrived of Cape York. make tho fol-
lowing extract from Captain Youngs journal
regarding the passage through Melville
Bay
1--WE continued through night under cam
Sass, and next morning after leaving Uper-
navik could just distinguish Horses Head
through the fog, while focks Of looms con-
tinually crossed us in their flight % wcst-
ward, from which / inferred that tho middle
ice was not far in that direction. Passing
through n long chain Of iceborgs, running
North and south aground, w arrived hi the
afternoon at the Duck Islands ON the 10Th
we were deserted by every living thing II
was foggy during the night with occasional
snow showers, but a. nine o'clock A. M We
had
RREAK ~ TuR SAY
and great glacier was before a., with Capcs
Seldom, Lewis and Walker IN sight and
here and there a few icobcrgs, but not a
single piece Of Zoe ice. A boat was sent
away to collect some loose pieces from a
berg for fresh water, a. We were quite
ont of that necessary element We had =
glorious night with a clear, brilliant sky
and temperature Of thirty-hvc degrees
We seem rather to be in the Atlantic on
fair autumnal evening. and could scarcely
believe we were in the much dreaded Mel
Vile Bay. It is astonishing how great i tho
uncertainty OF navigation In the Arctic seas.
il was near our present position that ~
this time of August 1876, We were In the
Fox so hampered by the Ice that finally wo
drifted into the pack, and yet now We have a
clear sea and are steering direct for Cape
York without even having q distant view Of
the middle ice. We saw nothing here sayo
an occasional petrel-not bird nor whale
nor any other living thing and the contrast
between this iceless sea and brilliant sun and
the absence Of all animal life was most strik-
ing. We passed through a quantity Of loose,
broken up ice, off Cape York, and
some enormous icebergs, but o dense
fog, which had prevented our seeing any
distance toward shore, made 1t impossible
TO communicate with tho natives, as had
intended doing. The temperature fell 10