The Newtown bee., 1880-10-13
IN TIE ARCTIC REGIONS.
Lieutenant SchwatIxa s Long Journey Search of Relics Of sir John Fran lin. .

tI, II, has given Q New York reporter aii in- teresting account of his long journey over snow and ". Lieutenant Schwatka said:
 "The records of Sir John Franklin's expedition we have not found, but we have discovered, as I think, sufficient evidence of their destruction and of the final fate of Franklin's men. We have given q decent burial to their remains and brought back number of relics. l can show you some of the smaller ones. picked up near Erebus bay"
 Rising, Lieutenant Schwatka un- screwed a wooden box that stood upon the table. It was filled with different articles carefully labeled.
 "Here is a tourniquet," he said, h1nd- ing out a rust instrument. Thel were tarnished brass buttons, piece of measuring stick, the bit of an auger, the bowl of a spoon, and a number of broken and rusty pieces of iron belong ing to various implements used by Franklin's party.
 "These are onlya few," said Lieuten- ant Schwatka; "the other relics will arrive tomorrow night, including the prow of a boat found near Wilmot bay. All the things left by Franklin's men have been broken up, and many of them stolen by tn Esquimaux. These relics will be sent to the British admiralty. Now there is one thing about which want to speak. The London Stdaddrd and some other English papers have questioned the propriety of my bringing home Lieutenant Irving's bones for burial. The advisability of doing this was the only point about which hesi- tated during the journey. On my way up the coast collected the bones for in- Na..x nN,N NI,a,.a 1a,, A.. ..O turn, after long consultation with my companions. decided to bring them to England. was decided in doing this by my own feeling that 1 should like to have any bone in my body brought home by any nation for interment in my native country. l am sorry to see that portion of a nation should take such exceptions to what another nation does conscieniously with their bravcst dead, for believe Sir John Franklin's men were the bravest Englishmen that ever lived.
 |" In my opinion, then, this expedition has settled the fate of Franklin's men. The journey has been carried out on sleds, and we have gained subsistence from the country through which we passed. This is something new, be- lieve, in Arctic explorations, and by some is held to have given a very valu- able preced mt. For my part, l think experience of comparatively little value in Arctic travelling. What is valuable is . mans own energy, determination and pluck.
 Geographically, something has been accomplished, as the admiralty charts have been discovered to be widely in error, sometimes being fifteen or twenty miles out of the way. It would be pos, a4fl Ia IN k.s
 the country through which we passed. This is what l think has been accom- phshed. or course there were many details in our sled journey of 3,0O0 miles which are pernaPs interesting in them selves. There were three white men besides myself in the party and thirteen Inuits in all, for when the Inuits travel they always ake their women and chil- dren. Our journey was to be on sleds, and we followed the habits of the Esqui- nlauX as nearly as possible. In addition to heavy T derclothing, we wor, what was practically two complete suits of fur clothing. This was made of rein deer skin, one suit having the haiI turned out and tue other thin. The inLer pair ot trousers is called 'lwopals', and the outer kok lins.' We wore long stock B jugs, Jas lektls,' coming up above the Knee. The cap is attached to the outside coat, the whole being called 'coute- lang The cap fits loosely around the face. The shoes were made of the skin taken from the head of the reindeer.
 The sleds were perhaps fifteen or eighteen feet long, The Innners are ol wnalebone and the sides are inclined out n little. This is done by the use of wha.e cask slaves for cross pieces, and makes the sleds run more easily. ca these cross pieces the provisions and luggage are carried wrapped up in deer skin, and lashed in place by sealskin thSngs. l started from Depot island with forty-twO dogs. There would be perhaps fifteen to sled. They are driven by means of whip with very long lash, always long enough to reach the leading dog, although he may be thirty feet away from the sledge.
 Our sled loads amounted 10 be- tween 900 and 5 900 pounds when we started. We were spendidly armed and carried plenty of ammunition, Then we took good deal in the way of provisions, such as hard bread, pork, compressed corn betf, oleomargarine e, coffee and tea, and other articles. We had also some walrus meat; but we were determined to depend chiefly on the game in the country that we passed through. This is where the expedition differed from most Arctic explorations When we left Camp Daly, April 1, 1879, we had pretty fair idea of the experience we would have. for we bad made some preliminary sled journeys, and had habituated ourselves to living m Esquimaux igloes' or snow huts. There was considerable risk when sleCging overland of finding hills so high that 1t would be impossible to get the sleds over them; and then there was some danger of not finding suffi- eionC game. Our first days journey was only ten miles, and for the first month we averaged about eight miles daily. All the distances are in my note book.
 We were encouraged" Lieutenant Sehwatka continued, "hy coming across some reindeer Atril 5, and Iaolooah, one Of cur Esquimaux, killed two white does; another killed one. This was re- assuring as to the prospect for food, and go long as we could get plenty of fresh meat there was no danger of scurvy. In travelling everything was taken on the sleds instead ot using portage; that is, sending a part of the load ahead with the men and following with the rest. And forbade riding on the sleds ex- cept when going down a hill. Some hi is that we came to were SO steep that we were obliged to lower the sleds. When the temperature was low these sleds ran very easily. We threw water over the runners which froze, and made D surface of ice over the whalebone. At night we built little huts, or 'igloes , of ice. banked up with snow, the open ing or door being very small. In one corner was our fire, which was 8 rather peculiar one. A bemispherical stone lamp was used, containing oil and bits of moss, and little fires were built around and on the sides. If it became so warm in the hut that the snow melted and dripped, and the air became too close, we made a small hole through the top. This hole was also convenient sometimes to fire the Coston signals through when the wolves came around