The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-03-22


next morning found in hut = waist
belt that had been made ON board the
Jeannette and these were good indica-
tiOns that one or two of belongs party
had slept in the hut on Nov. 10. Pro-
visions runuing short decided to 60 to
upper Belun in order to renew them. l
reached upper Belun On the 11th, hav-
ing stopped at Q deserted hunting sta
tion Of Col. Acota and also having visit
ed eight huts on the route. COnsidera-
bic stale fish and deer meat were found
at Col. Acota's, but no signs of the .huta
having been visited by belongs party.
On nv arrival at upper Belun natives
brought me DeLong's record dated Oct.
lst, and learned that Others had been
found. I sent to . neighboring village
for them and the next morning the re-
cords dated Sept. I'D and 18th, and
Winchester rifles were brought
to me. The only provisions to
| be obtained were deer meat
and fish, there being q scarcity Of the
latter, the natives having to send two
hundred and fifty versts for their own
supply.
November 18th obtained four days
supply ut fish, and with fresh dog teams
and natives stated for B0lOkha hut, in
which Record No. : and q Winchester
rifle were found. 1 slept there two
nights and found both nuts filled with
snow.
On November l4th I followed the east
bank Of the Lena to the coast and fol-
lowed the coast about three miles to the
east and found cache which hal been
made by Lieutenant De Long Septenl-
bel -, 81. made i thorough search
and gathered up everything, the sletls
being too heavily laden to carry 1t all.
I searched both east and west Of the
cache for distance Of five miles and
east distance OF one and u half miles
of shore and saw no signs of the party.
The ice was very much broken and was
showed up in masses to within twenty
five feet Of the cache. returned about
midnight to Upper Be!un.
November 18th turning stormy was
obliged to wait there two days to rest
and feed the dogs. During this time /
overhauled everything found in the
cache, and the following il correct list.
viz: One box containing refuse medical
stores; one box OF small articles Of mess
,ear; one box for navigation books and
Sexta mt; one. .boX chrOnClneter; two tin
cases containing four log books; two
condemned; one lot Of old clothing worn
out: one Winchester rifle; one repeating
rifle and other articles. There was no
letter found in the cache, hut the
following record was found in the navi-
CATION box:
ARCTIC EXPLORING STEAMER
JEANNETTE, LENA DELTA,
MONDAY, September 10.
The following named fourteen persons
belong to the Jeanette, which was sunk
BY ice June II, 'Sl. in latitude North 10
Is, longitude, 1852, landed here on the
evening Of the 18th inst, and will pro-
ceed On foot this afternoon to try to
reach u settlement on the Lena River:
(Signedl GEO. w. DEI0NG,
Lieutenant Commanding.
Tie following are the names Of the
rer.0ns: First, Lieutenant Dc Long;
Second, Surgeon Amber; 81, SURGEON
NJ. Il. Collins; 4tsl, Surgeon w. +. e.
Ninderman; jth, A. 0oetz; 9Th, A. H.
Tam; 7th, Alex. -; Sth; H. H. Er-
rickson; 9tn. H. H. Koch; 10th, G. w.
Boyd; 1lth, w. Lee; l:,th, n. Juerson;
18th, L. P. Nords; 18th, A. Dressler:
Whoever finds this paper Is requested
to forward it to the Secretary Of the
Navy With note of the time and place
at which it was found. Copies Of the
above in six languages followed.
On November 18th I left Upper Belun
with fish for ten dAys' food and with
three dog teams driven by three natives.
discovered the place 1T which De
| Longs party crossed the Lena and
traced the party toa place called Sixter,a-
neck, which place I wished to
search for the hut in which Erickson
! died but there was q storm raging and
the natives insisted ON returning to o.
thcr Belun or Upper Belun because there
| Was q lack Of food and the dogs refused
to work. We had only raw frozen fish
| to eat and 80 determined tn return to
Rclun and arrived there Nov. 9th In q
| terrible condition. feet, legs. hands and
! face badly frost bitten, having been ten
.lays in continuous storm, remaining
two days and one night ina hole in q
| snow hank without shelter Of any kind:
! From NV knowledge Of the country and
and the evidence of NOrOs and Nidcr-
man. arl convinced belong and par.
ty are somewhere to the westward OF the
| Lena and between Sixteraneck and
Bu:cour which arc) separated by an ex:
| tent If about 80 versts Of . barren an'
dcsolste regio1 devoid Of subsistence
TO search that region q large force will
Ike required, with authority from
| the Russian officials Il therefore came t.
this place to communicate with the
'nited States and Immediately with the
aid Of the authorities to organize search
ing parties. In the meantime the com
mandn,ant is searching with all the force
his station offers. The governor o.
this province has sent an order through
out the entire region from Lena to kolg'
ma to search for and render assistance
TO both parties that are missing. l an
now completing my arrangements and
will start north in a few days, the Gov
General Tehoiriff in charge, rendering
every assistance in his power. BY nex'
mail will give you y full statement ex
planning the organization and plans
adopted for the search. When Danen
hover reached Belun transportation
south was furnished for only six men
70 he took four of the weakest OF thu
Darty and and reached this place Dec
Il. the remaining six arrived yesterday
The general health Of the whole party Ii
excellent but Danenhower's eyes are
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