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The Jeanette Survivors.

The following dispatch from Lieutenant
Danenhower, dated 1rkutsk, Siberia, ls printed
by the New York Herald:
Dc Longs party is between stations Buleul
(Bolinoi y aud Sisterouck lust Olonsk p, 10 .
narrow wilderness eighty miles long, devoid OF
habitations and game. Jerome j: Collins, the
Herald correspondent, volunteered to stand by
The dying seaman, Hans Erickson, and let the
others of De Longs party push south. The new
search builds huts and goes over every inch Of
tho region, which il plowed by heavy drift ice
every spring. We visited Noidcnshjold's win
tor quarters and found that he was safe before
We entered the leo near Herald station. The
general health of the crew during the twenty
one months drift was excellent. No scrryy
appeared. We used distilled water and bear
and eea! meat twice o week. No rum Waa
served out. Divine service was regularly held.
We took plenty OF exercise. Everybody hunt
ed. Game was scarce. We got about thirty
bears, $50 seals and six walrus. No fisho whales
were seen. All possible observations were
made during the drift, tho result showing q
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 five months was forty miles. There
was o cycloidaf movement of the leo. The drift
during the last six months was very rapid.
The toundings were pretty even. They were
eighteen iatIoms near Wrangell Land, which
were often visible seventy-ive miles dis.
tant. The greatest depth found WAS
eighty fathoms and tho average thirty-fve.
The bottom was blue mud. Shrimps
and plenty Of algological specimens were
brought up from the bottom. The surface
water had q temperature Of twenty degrees
above zero. The extremes of temperature OF
tho air we're greatest cold, ffty-eight below
zorro, and the greatest heat, %forty-tour above
zero. The first winter tho mean temperature
Was thirty-three below zero. Tho second winter
it was thirty.ninc below zero. The first sum
mcr mea n temperature WAS forty degrees above
zero. The heaviest gale showed a velocity OF
about fifty miles an hour. Such gales were not
frequent. Barometric and thermometric fuct-
uations were not great. There were disturb.
ances Of the needle coincident with the auroras.
Tho winters growth OF ice was eight feet. The
heaviest ice seen was twenty-three feet. En-
gineer Schock's heavy truss saved the ship on
November 81 from being crushed. The tele-
phone wires we're broken BY movement Of the
ice. The Photographic collection was lost with
the ship. Lieutenant Chipp's 2, 900 auroral OBJ
sei vations were also lost. The naturalist's
notes have been saved.
Jeanette Island was discovered May 16 in
latitude 7G deg. At min. north, longitude 1853
deg. so min. east. 1t was small and rocky,
and VIC did not visit it. Henrietta Island was
discovered and visitod on May "a, in latitude
II deg. 8 min. north, longitude 1877 deg. 80 min.
east. 1t is an extensive island. Animals are
scarce and glaciers plenty. Bennett Island
lies in latitude 76 deg. 80 min. north, long. 14S
deg. 20 min. east. 1t is very large, On it we
found many birds, old horns, drift wood and
coal, but no seal or walrus. Great tidal
action was observed. The coast was bold
and rocky. the cape on the south coast was
named Cape Emma. We drifted back during
the first week OF the retreat twenty-seven miles
more than we could advance. The snow was
knee deep. We had to go thirteen times oyer
and over the track, seven times with loads.
Lieutenant Chipp's boats did better than ours
tMelville's) during the afternoon of September
10, the three boats having got clear of the
ice off seminovsky Island at noon of that day.
About dusk he was q thousand yards
off our weather quarter and lowered
sail as if rounding to. We lay to for twenty
four hours under q triangular drag. Nothing
was seen Of Lieutenant Chipp's boat at day.
light. He could not get back to the island in
northwest gale. He was unable to carry his
share of provisions. I observed q strong easter.
" current near the Lena delta. There were
masses OF driftwood between the Siberian
islands. Jack Coles mind is not wholly alien
ated. He has not been violent fer twelve days,
but is happy and harmless. Getting home may
restore him.