Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-05-18
The Search for De- long. ?

The brief dispatches as to finding the re-
mains of Captain De Long and his party give
no intination as. to the particular locality
where the bodies were found II is known
that whenthe boats or the Jeannette parted
company Mal vilIe's wont lko the cas- tsof Cape
Barlin, in the Lena delta, pnd De Longs far
to the west. They both landed on the same
day, September II, but at points near
" two hundred miles apart The Mel
willie party proceeded inland about fifty
miles, were rescued by natives. and kept at a
fungus village until November g. They then
went south toward Bulun, point I'M COM
mtinication with Yakutsha before Melville
reached Bulun, he heard OF the arrival of
Noros and Nindermau, two of. De Longs men,
at Bulco,ir, IA hundred versts north of Hulun.
He went TO Kumark Surka, a pointmidway be-
tween Bulcour, and Bulun, to meet them, and,
after hearing their report, set QUITS search for
De Long. Neros and Ninderman had left the
De Long party IN astarving condition on the
9TH of OctobeE and did rpot reach Dploour UNI
til the 25th. On the 9th of October sBeLong
believedlthat he was soniy about Twelve miles
from Kumark surka:4 but as tho tive sailors
were nearly three weeks in reaching that
point, and were much confused sas to their
wanderings in snowy desert their story gave
little idea as to his Whereabouts. ~
i Melville followed the direction as marked
ont BY Ninderman and Norps, am, 'striking
DeLdps'strai followed it until thrsvn Off by
the crossing of che rivers a. ESister&1ek, near
where II is osed DeIQnga was on the 9th of
October Melville had made this search with
two natives and two dog. trafnss Tho
natives refused to go further, and
Melville returnedgto Rulbn. went from
there to- Yakutsk,s eand,. after con-
sultation With the auth9rities ofeAhized other
fexpeditionssan and conlinued the search. AS this
search was to extend over 4 Stretch of inhos-
pitable country 300 miles long by 100 miles
wide and us the date of Mnlsine, g dispatch
locates him only I'll the delta 1T IL not easy to
say where he found the remains OF he Long,
and his men. I
There IS adispesision 10 censurc Melville on
thres points: IvFor notproceeding ~ once to
roing north IL the iliarn nrSnrs6f the lena IN.
stead of south Of it I'm lie first ex.
petition. 3. For abandoning the seatch and
returning to Rulun, and leaving Il then
to natives while he went sosYakutsk.&&s
Lieutenant Danenhowcf is made in tho
Herald letters to give countenatic, 10 these
Complaints but it Is doubtfsA IL no did. II ia
easy work to torture tho dependent re-.
mark II sick aus voIn-oxf ITO cen.
sure of cofiradc. ana 4 lo6& S much as
though the correspondent had d6ncE this.
The bodies fouAd witass that of CAPTAIN
DeLong are those OF Jcromet J.YCollips.
mcteoroiogisf Of the JcRrnrttc, nj. James
N. N. Amber, SURGEON United stafcs Navy;
Walter Lee, George w. lloyd. Henry r..
KnAck.s Gail Ausa,st. Gorts Adolf Drcssler.
Nelse Ivcrson. Alexia, an Indian, and All Lorn.
Chinaman. Hans Erikson, one of tho pnrtv.
diou early IN fOctcbef. LteMsenant Coipp and,
his boats crew have not been heard Of since
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