The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-16
Tho Loss Oh the ,ieahnette.

The following dispatch from Lieutenant
Danonhower, dated Irkutsk, Siberia, Is printed
by the New York Herald:
De Longs party is between stations Buleur
(Bolinoi . and Sisterouck (Ust Olonsk y, IN
narrow wilderness eighty miles long, deyoiu % on
napltatlons and game. jerome >: CoIilns, the
Herald correspondent volunteered to stand By
the dying seaman, Hans Erickson. and let the
others of De Longs party push south. lhe new
search builds huts and Eoss over every inch OF
the region, which is plowed by heavy drift ice
every spring. We visited NordenskJold's WIN
ter quarters and found that he was safe before
we entered the ice near Herald station. The
general health Of the crew during the twenty
one months DRIFT was excellent. No scurvy
| appeared. We used distilled water and bear
| and seal meat twice week. No rum was
served out. Divine service was regularly held
| We took plenty OF exercise, Everybody hnnt-
ed. Game was scarce We got about thirty
bears, $50 seals and six walrus. No fish whales
were seen. ALI possible observations we're
made during the drift, the result ehowin6
| hortiwest course. The ship was keeled over
and heavily pressed by the ice most of the
| time. The mental strain was heavy on some oil
the ships company. The result of the dritt for
the first five months was forty miles. There
was a cycloidal movement of the ice. The drift
| during the last six months vas very rapid.
The soundings were pretty even; They were
eighteen fathoms near Wrangell Land, wbish
|
taDt. The greatest depth found was
eighty fathoms and the average thirty-fve
The bottom was blue mud. Shrimps
and plenty of algological specimens We're
brought up from the bottom. The snfdce
water had a temperature Of twenty degrees
above zero. The extremes Of temperature OF
the air Nefe-Sreatest cold, ffty-eight below
zero, and the greatest heat, forty-tour above
zero. The first winter the mean temperature
was thirty-three below zero. The second winter
it was thirty nine below ze'o. The first sum-
mer mea temperature was forty degrees above
zero The heaviest gale showed velocity OF
about fifty miles aiS hour. Such gales were not
frequent Barometric and thermometric igct-
uations were net great. 1lsre were disturb
enres of the needle coincident with the aurorHe
The winters growth of ice was eight feet. The
heaviest ice seen was twenty-three feet. En-
gineer Schock's heavy truss saved the ship OF
November 81 from being crushed. The tele-
phone wires were broken by movement OF tht
ice The Photographic collection was lost will
the ship. Lieutenant Chipp's 2G0O auroral OBJ
servations were also lost The naturalist'E
notes have been saved
Jeanette Island was discovered May 16 in
latitude 76 deg. AZ min. north, longitude 15S
deg. 90 min. east. 1t was small and rocky
and we did not visit it. Henrietta Island wal
discovered and visited on May "a, in latitude
II deg. 8 min. north, longitude l57 deg 81 miu
east. 1t ic an extensive island. Animals are
SchlCe Gnu SlaCIeIs plentS. DchhotV ASieu'
lies in latitude 76 deg. 80 min. north, long, 1i'
deg. 20 min. east. 1t is very large, On it w
found many Birds old horns, drift wood ant
coal, but no seal or walrus. Great tida
action was observed. The coast was bolt
and rocky. The cape on the south coas. wa
named Cape Emma, We dlifted back durn
the first week of the retreat twenty-seyen mile
more than we could advance. The snow wa
! knee deep. we had to go thirteen times owe
and over the track, seven times with loads
Lieutenant Chipp's boats did better than our
: .NIelville's) during the afternoon of Septenbo
~, the three boats having got clear of tn
ice off Seminovsky Island at noon of that da!
About dusk he was thousand yard
off our weather quarter and lowere
sail as if rounding 10. We lay to for twenty
four hours under triangular drag. Nothin
was seen of Lieutenant Chipp's boat at da!
light. He could not get back to the island in
J northwest gale. He was unable to carry h
share of provisions 1 observed strong easter
: ly. current near the Lena delta. There wei
=, masses of driftwood between the Siberia
islands Jack Coles mind is not wholly aliel
: ated. He has not been violent for twelve day
but is happy and harmless. Getting home ma
restore him.