The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-10-05
MEMORANDA.

RRPoEr OF WHAIIse AND TRADING scHR G NJ wARp.-
Lea Honolulu April Id for the Arctic Ocean, and had
pod weather to Fox Islands Went through Segaum
Straits April 9th, and made the Ice May I'd. lat 37o n
long I79e W.: found plenty of ice in Behring Sea. June
3dgot through tie ice to Cape Nayerene; saw plenty of
chored in PIOver Bay and saw plenty of whales working
Sere OF East Cape, Jufy I4th went in between the iee
and land al Cape Lisbon; passed Icy Cape July 22d. On
coming from the sOuthxard. Aug LIST were on Point Bel
were OF Refuge Inlet; on the 18th anchored OF Point Bar
row, and lsyed in there 20 days; saw no whales. The
feet went as far as IS miles east OF Return Reef. and saw
nothing there; had seen but three whales UP to Aug 2sth.
The brig W H Allen and bk Florence were stove by ice
between Refuge Inlet and Point Barrow, and were sunk
total wrecks. Left Is vessels at anchor at Point Barrow
to the South at that time; I come out from Point Barrow
between the land and ice in II feet Of water; saw ice
Point Hope TO the South, head Of st Lawrence Bay,
across Behring Straits; wOrksd through the ice to Plover
Bay. and spoke the schooner. left Plover Bay. Sept sth
for Honolulu; come through 172 Passage Sept 18th, and
down. BESJ wHITSEY.
REPoRr OF EMMA c BEALE. BAILEY. MAsrEE-Left San
bafaing winds and thick fog. From thence to lat. p n
had hshs neTthesly Pin as and y e@ d.2s. Then light north
REPORT OF CITY OF NEW YORK, CoBB. MAsTER-Left
Sydney september 18th at 8 p m, with % cabin and 50
bags mail. Cleared sydney Heads at 4IO p M. Three
kings Islands soesn ~ N1ngs 9 su III Ee ePti y me
Arrived at Auckland nth, at 322 m. Running time, 1
sengers. 10 tons cargo, and mail Left same day at 45O
prentIv bsd two THURSDAYS. Did not sight the Navigator |
Islands as usual, course being too far to The eastward. |
Have experfenced dne weather, the prevailing winds be- 1
ing from the east Arrived at Honolulu September 30th,
at IL 80 = IA Time pilot To pilot, ID days 10 hours. Bring
? cabin and 2 steersge passengers, s. tons OF cargo, and 5 \
has mail. Are due in San Francisco October 10th. Ex-
Exchanged signals with fuIl-rigged Peruvian ship under
fun sail, at s q m this date, bound to the southwark. fF
5 4 BEARDsLEY, Purser.
REPORT OF sCBR LOLITA, CAPTAIN DEXTER, PROM THE
aRCrIc-SaiIed from Honolulu March 10th, and steered
10 the westward to long. 17709 east then took westerly !
and tnorthwesterly winds, which lasted through I'D
Passage. Passed through April 10Th. On the 18th made
the ice in lat. 81 so north, E7.30 west long. Found plenty
Of ice. From thence worked TO the eastward to st Paul's
Island: then to the north. On May 10th arrived az Plover
shore all clear of fee. Found the natives very
hem quantities of bread, as they were in a starving con-
ON June I'd was at st Lawrence Bay. Bay full of
Ice Natives boarded us on the ice; found the natives
also very poor. June 18th saw quite q good show of
struck three; lost two by the ice; saved one,
which made % barrels Of OIL. Worked north as fast as
me ice would permit; found the natives all along the
verv moor and destitute. July 4th started walrus-
found them very scarce; took 200, making us 25 bar
of oil. July 10Th Francis Fuller, second othcers
lied with kidney complaint; buried his remains at st
raur-ence Bsy. August 9Th was at Cape Smith in COM
= the ice cleared away. On August I'd brig w III Allen
a. stove and sunk by the ice, near Point BARROW; crew
lI saved. Captain Gilley ON board the. Onward. August
nh L2rk Florence was stove and sunk by the Ice near
soinf Paryov. crew all saved. Up 70 August I'D but one
had been seen: bark Mercury struck and lost
ne Therewas plenty of open water TO the castor Point
earrow and shfEg had been IS far as Camden Bay and
eeturn Reef. but sadtng no whales, had returned TO the
,oinf. The foloHipg T. 3 report Of the feet, as far as l