The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-22
New York and Canada Railroad.
The Latest Arctic Expeditions.

The London Times of June 90 has the
following 1.-THE screw schooner yacht
Pandora, Captain Allen Young, which has
been fitted out at Southampton for pri-
vate expedition to the Arctic circle, steamed
round from Southampton water on Friday
evening, and was berthed alongside the
iettes in Portsmouth Dockyard, The pur-
pose of Captain Young in coming to Ports
mouth was to bid good-by to his former
superior officer of the Fox, now Rear Adj
mral McClintock and present admiral su-
perintendent of Portsmouth dockyards, and
10 receive the advantage of an inspection
by HIM Of his vessel. The Pandora was
originally built in 1861, as navaldespatch
vessel and was purchased from the gov
ernment for polar expedition. She does
not greatly differ from the Discovery either
as regards shape, size or rig and though
somewhat worn in places, the weak parts
of her timbers have been strengthened by
a number of sheathings of American elm,
while her boilers and machinery generally
have been thoroughly renovated. She has
been well provisoned and equipped for her
adventurous cruise, which may possibly
last over eighteen months, though it is ex-
pected she will return earlier. She carries
some of the sledges which formerly belong
ed to the fox, and others have been con-
structed by Mr.. White of Cowes, who has
also supplied her with six boars, the exact
model of those built by the same gentleman
for the Alert and the Discovery. While her
bunkers contained upwards of 100 tons of
coal, her decks are crowded with barrels of
pork and provisions, and her hammock net
iings and every conceivable space above and
below have been converted into magazine
stores. She is also well provided with sci
cntific Instruments, sounding apparatus,
guns for seal hunting, boats and harpoons
for whale chasing, etc. The Pandora car
ries out once more to the region Of perpe-
tual ice the organ originally the gilt of the
prince consort, which has frequently done
its part to while away the tedum of po-
lar winter, and which last performed ser
vice in the Fox during its successful voy-
age in search of the Franklin Expedition.
The ships company of the Pandora con-
sists of thirty-two souls, all told, and many
of the crew are familiar with the special
work which lies before them. The cap
tain has earned for himself an hon.
orable reputation as an arctic explorer, and
has given his name to polar headand.
Mr.. Toms was out with the captain in the
Fox; the captain of the hold and the cook
have battled with the ice before, while the
interpreter is the veritable Esquiman Joe
who followed Hall, of the Polaris, up to
II deg. 16 north, and who believes that
more information of the Franklin expedi-
ton is to be obtained by further investi-
cation of King Williams Land, which the
Pandora will attempt. The Pandora sailed
from Portsmouth at four o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon"
On June 20 the Times says, "There was
to sail from Sunderland Dock yesterday a
small sloop named the Whim, bound to
the arctic seas and zone; it is under the
command of Captain Virgins, of the mer-
chant service, and is manned by five able
seamen. The little vessel is twenty-seven
tons register, with spencer and square
sail on the mast proper, small spencer
sail at the stern, and the usual jibs There
is saloon in miniature about six feet long
by fye feet wide and five feet deep, and
the usual forecastle for the crew. Captain
Virgins commanded an expedition to the
arctic seas last year. and he is of opinion
that valuable field for investigation and
trade is open to the philanthropist and
commercial adventurer. among the scat
tered people who occupy Samoyede Land
and northermost Russia generally, and he
and his crew go out in pursuit of further
Investigations in the direction indicated"