The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-02-18
The Missing Crew of the Jeanette.

NEW YoRK. February :.
The following dispatch from Lieutenant
Danenhauer, dated Irkoutsk, February 4, has
just been received here:
"De Longs party is between the stations
Of Bueur (BolinoiD and Sisteroucl tUsto-
leonskD, in narrow wilderness eighty miles
long, devoid of habitations aud game Jerome
j. Collins volunteered to stand by the diving
seaman, Hans Erickson, and let Others of De
Longs party push south.
1.-THE new search builds huts, and goes over
every inch of the region, which is plowel by
heavy drift-ice every spring.
1--WE visited Nordensljold's winter quar-
ters, and found he was safe before we entered
the ice near Herald Island
The general health Of the crew during the
twenty-one months drift was excellent. No.
scurvy appeared. We used distilled waterand
bear and seal-meat twice week. No rum was
served out. Divine service was egulary held.
We took plenty Of exercise. Everybody
hnnted. Game was scarce. We got about
thirty bears, two hundred and fifty seals ana
six walrus No fish or whales were seen
" All possible observations were made dur
ing the drift, the result showing a northwest
course. The ship was keeled over and heayi-
ly pressed by ice most of the time. The men
tai strain was heavy on all of the ships com
pany The result of the drift for the first five
months was forty miles. There was cvcloid-
al movement OF the ice. The drift the last
six months was very rapid Soundings were
pretty even. They were eighteen iathoms
near Nrangell Land, which was often visible
seyenty-five miles distant. The greatest depth
found was eighty fathoms, aud the average
tmrty-iiye. The bottom was blue mud.
mi nm L r,l.. III, L. 4
were brought up from the bottom The sur
lace water had temperature Of twenty de-
grees above zero.
1.-THE extremes of temperature of air were:
Greatest cold Is below zero and greatest heat
"A above zero. The first winter the mean
temperature was - below zero; the sec
ond winter 80 below zero. The first
summer the mean temperature was 40 degrees
above zero The heaviest gale showed a
velocity of about fifty miles rer hour Such
gales were not frequent. The barometric and
thermOmetric fluctuations were not great
There were disturbances of the needle CO.
incident with the auroras. The winters
growth o. ice was eight feet; heaviest ice seen
twenty-three feet. The engineer states that
a heavy truss saved the ship, November 81, from
being crushed. The telephone wires were
broken by the movement of the ice. The
Photographic collection was lost with the ship.
Lieutenant Chips 1000 auroral observations
were also lost. The naturalist's notes were
saved.
Jeanette Island was discovered, May 16.
in latitude az degrees AZ minutes north, longi-
tude los degrees So minutes east. 1t was small
and rocky and we did not visit it,.
Henrietta Island was discovered and Wis
tied, May "a in latitude Il degrees minutes
north, longitude 157 degrees 81 minutes east
1t is an extensive island. Animals are scarce,
but glaciers are plenty.
"Bennett Island lies in latitude rs degrees
80 minutes north, longitude 14S degrees 20
minutes east. 1t is very large. On it we
found many birds, old horns, driftwood and
coal, but no seal or walrus. A great tidal ac-
ton was observed The coast is bold and
rocky. The cape on the south coast was named
Cape Emma.
I'VE drifted back the first week of the re-
treat twenty-seven miles more than we could
advance. The snow was knee deep. We had
to go thirteen times over and over the track,
seven times with loads.
Lieutenant Chipps boat did better than
ours (Melville's) during the afternoon of Sep
TENDER II, the three boats having got clear of
the ice off Semnovsky Island at noon that
day. About dusk he was 100 yards off our
weather quarter, and lowered sail as if round
ing to. We lay for twenty-four hours under
triangular drag. Nothing was seen of
Lieutenant Chipp's boat at daylight He
could not get back to the island in a northeast
gale. He was unable to carry his share of the
provisions.
~ observed strong eastery current near
the Lena delta, There were masses of drift
wood between the Siberian Islands
Jack Coles mind is not wholly alienated.
He has not been violent for twelve DAYS, but
is happy and harmless. Getting home may
restore him."