Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-09
THE JEANNETTE'S VOYAGE.

Lieut.. Danenhower Gives . Detailed De-
scriptian Of tho Trip to the Arctic
Life ON Board the Observation-Disclosures
lions and .Discoveries-The Return.
PARIS. Feb. s.-The following dispatch
from Lieutenant Eisenhower, dated Irkoutsk,
February 4, has just been received here:
DeLong's party Is between the stations Bul.
over, Bolinio and Sfstsrouck Austalons. In q
narrow wilderness eighty miles long. devoid
of habitatiuns and game. Jerome J. Collins
volunteers to stand by the dying seaman Hans
Erickson, and let the others of DeLong' party
push south. The new search builds huts and
goes over every inch Of region which Is
pleughed by head drift ice every spring.
LIFE ON THE JEANETTE.
We visited Nordenskjold's winter quarters
and found he was safe before we entered the
ice near Herald island. The general health of
the crew during the twenty-one month's drift
was excellent. No seurvy appeared. We
used distilled water and bear and seal meat
twice week. No man was served out. d.
vine service was regularly held. We took
plenty of exercise. Everybody hunted. Game
was scarce. We got about 80 bears, $50 seals
possible observations were made during the
drift, the result showing northwest course.
The ship was keeled over and heavily pressed
by the ice most of the time. The mental strain
was heavy on some Of the ships company.
The result Of the drift for the first i've
months was forty miles The was acycloldl
movement of the ice drift during the last six
mouths, very rapid. The soundings were very
even. They were eighteen fathoms near Wran-
CELL Land, which was afterwards visible, sew
enty-five miles distant. The greatest depth
found was eighty fathoms, and the average
thirty-five. The bottom was blue mud, and
shrimps and plenty of algological specimens
were brought up from the bottom. The sur
face water had temperature Of twenty de-
grees above zero. The extremes If tempera-
ture were: Greatest cold, 50 degrees below,
and greatest heat A degrees above zero. The
first winter the mean temperature vas 80 de-
grees below zero; the second n'er It was 80
degrees below. The first summer the mean
temperature was 40 degrees owe 20. The
heaviest gales showed a velocit, ri dry miles
per hour. Such gales were not frequent.
Barometric and thermometic 1uc uato1s
were not great. There were disturbances d
the needle coincident W tn aurorss. Winters
growth of ice eight feet Heaviest Ice seen
twenty-three feet. Engineer Schoch's heavy
truss saved the ship November 81 from being
crushed. Telephone wires were broken BY
of the lee. TIE phOtogr aphic COL
lection Was lost with the ship Lieut.. Chips
2 900 auroral observations were also lost. The
naturalists notes were saved.
DISCOVERIES.
Jeanette island discovered May Ia, In lati
tude IS degrees AZ minutes north, longitude
1853 degrees 5e minutes east. 1t was small and
rocky and we did not lsitit. Henrietta island
was discovered and visited May "a, in latitude
n degrees minutes north. longitude 1877 de-
grees 81 minutes east; It is an extensive
island Animals scarce; glaciers plenty. Ben
nett island, lies in latitude 76degrees 50 min
utes north, longitude 14S degrees 20 minutes
east. 1t is very large. On it found many
birds, herns, driftwood and coal, but no seal
or walrus. Great tidal action was observed.
The coast is bold and rocky. A cape on the
south coast was named Cape Emma.
THE RETREAT.
We drifted back during the first week Of re-
treat twenty seven miles more than we could
advance. The snow was knee deep. We had
to 20 thirteen times over and over the track.
seven times with loads. Lieut. Chips boat
did better than ours (Melville's) during the
afternoon OF Sept, 10, 1881, the three boats
having got clear of the Ice of seminovsky
island at noon that day. About dusk he was
about thousand yards off our weather quar-
ter and lowered sail as If rounding to. We lay
to for 81 hours under triangular drag.
Nothing was seen of Lieut.. Chlpp's boat at
daylight. He could not get back to the island
in the nor theast gale He was unable to carry
his share of provisions.
I observed a strong easterly current near
Lena delta. There were masses Of driftw0od
between the Siberian islands.
lack C,lafe mind ia not wholly alieDated.
BE has not been violent for twelve days, but ID
happy and harmless. Getting home may
restore him.