Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1882-05-18

polar continent. Notraces Of any human
visit we're found except the record of
the revenue cutter Corwin's visit short
time before. The Rodgers returned
southwark and went into winter quar-
ters at st. Lawrence Bay, where it
seems the ship has now been destroyed
by some strange accident. There had
been ample preparations made for
searching the land in the spring, and
the supply OF provisions was very large,
so that the loss is considerable. The
officers and crew, thirty-seven men in
all, are at Tiapka, small settlement
near Cape Serdze, northwest of the har-
Dor where they wintered. The list COM
prises Lieutenant Robert M. Berry,
commanding the expedition, Master II.
S. Waring, Master g. f. Putnam, En-
signs Hunt and Stoney, Meredith Jones,
Surgeon. Assistant Engineer Zane and
PAY Clerk w. IL Glider Glider is an
experienced Arctic traveller, was with
Schwatka in his expedition, and wrote
the story Of it; and now has the added
experience of walk of between 1900
and |, 400 miles over Siberian wastes, to
Verkhoyansk, whence he sent the
courier who met MIR. jackson at Ust
Vilui place on the Aldan River, q
branch of the Lena. Terkhoyansk is
400 miles north Of Yakutsk, and half
way between that town and the coast of
the Lena delta where Melville is search
ing for De Longs and Chipp's crews.
The party of the Rodgers are no doubt
in distress at Tiapka, and the Navy De-
partment has sent the steamer
Corwin to the relief of Lieutenant
Berry and his party. Thus we
send out one expedition to re-
lieve another, and third to succor the
second, and who shall warrant that we
do not have to follow this with fourthP
The United States is exceptionally I'M
fortunate in Arctic explorations of late,
but those that succeed find little to re-
pay the expenditure of money and life
in the work. The fact that Nordensk-
jold has actually succeeded in getting
through from the Atlantic to the Pacific
is interesting, but it is frutless achieve
ment and must remain fruitless, for no.
body pretends that the passage is even
possible except under the most favora-
bic conditions. There ought to be an
end to this foolishness. There is small
likelihood that there will be, however
The new international scheme of col
onies will get into full opera
ton this year, whose object is
the scientific study at central points of
the currents, tides, etc., in the hope
that by combining many observations
Arctic explorations may be entered up
on inteligently, Systematically, and
with some assurance of safety. We
cannot think this q reasonable expecta-
ton, but the colonies certainly involve
a minimum of danger and waste. The
first work on this plan has been Amer
lean, although the late Austrian eXplor-
er, Weyprecht originated it. Two par
ties from the United States have spent
their first winter at respectively Point
Barrow and Lady Franklin Bay. This
year Russia has already dispatched its
corps of observers to the Lena delta
(Which Melville saws is under water
from June to mid-autumn), and will
probably send another band to Nova
Iembla. Austria has started its colony
for Jan Mayen Island, barren rock be-
tween Iceland and Spitzbergen. To the
last-named island Sweden will send its
colony; Norway places q corps of OBJ
servation on one of its northernmost
points; Denmark will establish a party
in Greenland; and England will make
one post at the mouth OfMackenzie and
perhaps another further north. -Spring-
Fetd Mass. Republican. ..r..Et-