Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-03-20

When the two men started the party
was at n halt on the north bank OF the
Large, a western branch OF tho Lena.
The two men ascended that branch
about five miles to make
q crossing, and then travelled
southwest to a port known by the name
OF Two Crosses, and situated ON the Lena
bank. After fourteen days of intense
suffering and slow progress, they reached
Bsloour, and were found by three natives
who supplied them with food and trans
ported them to Belum by deer sleds,
arriving arr 5z.,, at ,sil that place septem;.
Belun took good care of them. Hegave
them material and they wrote long
dispatch addressed to the American
minister at st. Petersburg, which the
commandant took with him to Bukoff.
Danenhower Immediately sent it to me
by special conveyance to get
here with an order from
the commandant at Belum to furnish me
with an outfit, and appointing Bansulk
as a rendezvous, at which place / met
him and the remainder of the party. On
November 5th had an interview with
the commandant, who ordered Danen.
hover to proceed south with all the party
except j. III. Bartlett, first class fire.
man, who was to remain at Belun to CON-
municate with me. All started north
that evening to the relief of DE Long
having with me two natives and two dog
trains with provisions for ten
we reached Bulcour. Found two de-
serted houses and traces of two men.
Examined q small hut where two men
had slept and where number of sleds
were slowed and slept in a snow-bupk
those nights. Visited the huts at
Astoleria, reaching Motra1 after mid.
night. The next morning l found III the
hut waist belt that had been made on
board the Jeannetta, and these were
were good indications that one or two of
Delong's party had slept in the hut.
On November 10th our provisions
were running short and 1 decided
to go to Upper Belun in order
renew them. Reached upper Belun on
the lltb, having stopped at the deserted
hunting station OF Cathconla, and also
having visited eight nuts on the route.
Considerable stale fish and deer meat
were found at Cathconla, but no signs
OF the huts having been visited by De
Longs party. On my arrival in
Upper Belun natives brought me De-
Longs record, dated October LIST, and
learned that others had been found. I
sent to neighboring village for them.
and the next morning records dated Sep.
tember 22d and 26th were brought to me.
The only provisions to be obtained we're
deer and fish, there being scarcity of the
latter, the natives having to send 25O
versts for their own supply. Novembe el
18th obtained four days supply of fis h.
and with fresh dog teams and a native
there that t. night A'''Anai and found o1up1
both huts filled with snow. On Nov
l4th we followed the east bank of the
Lena to the coast. Followed. the coast
about three miles to the east, and found
cache had been made by Delong Sep.
tsmber 18th, 1881. I made thorough
search and gathered up everything. The
sleds were too heavily laden tc
carry it, I searched for 8
boat, both east and west of the cache, fol-
distance of five miles each and to a dis
tance of one half mile off shore, and
saw no signs of it. The ice was very
much broken and was showed up il
masses to within twenty feet o
the cache. I returned abou
midnight to Upper Belun
The next day. November 18th, turning
stormy, was obliged to wait there two
days to rest and feed the dogs. During
this time l overhauled everything OBJ
tanned in the cache and the following il
a correct list, viz:
One box containing refuse medica
stores.
One box of small articles in the mes
, gear.
!, One box of navigation books and sex
tant
One box chronometer.
Two tin cases containing four 10,
books.
Two cook stoves.
Seven old sleeping bags, condemned.
One lot of old clothing, (worn out).
One Winchester rife.
, One repeating rifle and other articles
There was o list of the articles foun,
in the cache and the folio ing recor
found in the navigation box:
j. Arctic exploring steamer Jea~ ette
Lena delta, Monday, September. 10Th
3 leSl.-The following named fourtee
} persons belong to the. Jeanette. whic
+ was sunk by ice on the l2tl
! Of June, 1881, in lat,tud
Y degrees. 10 minutes; longitude, is
degrees. Landed here on the evening g
the 18th inst, and will proceed on foo
to try to reach the settlements on Len
[Signedl
GEO. W. DELoNo, Lieut.. Comdy.
Lieut.. DeLong 2, Surgeon Amber
/ Mr.. Collins 4. w. F. @. Ninderman ;
| Gartz 6. A. g. Sam Z, Alexy s, S. 3
Erickson 8. II. II. Koh 10. G. w. Boy,
II, w. Lee l2,N. Jurson l3, X. B. Nora
IA. A. Dressler Is.
Whoever finds this paper is requeste
to forward it to the secretary of the nav
with note OF the time and place at whic
it was found.
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