Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-09
THE JEANNETTE.
COM, belongs PARTY TRACED.
DESPATCH from Danenhower-Details of th'
Cruise and Drift Of the Vessel
Careful Observations Made.

Despatch from Danenhowsr-Detallso of tho
Cruise and Drift of the Vessel
Careful Observations Made.
The following despatch from Lieutenant
Darenhower, dated Irkutsk, February
9Th, has just been received in Paris:
'.DeLong's party is between stations
Buleur (Balinsi) and Sisterouck (Cstol-
ansk), in narrow wilderness, eighty miles
long, devoid of habitations and game.
JeromeJ. Collins volunteered to stand by
the dying seaman, Hans Erickson, and let
the others Of belongs party push south.
The new search builds huts and goes over
every inch of tho region which is plowed
by heavy drift ice every spring.
"We visited Nordenskjold's winter
quarters and found that he was safe before
we entered the ice near Herald island.
Tho general health Of the crew during the
twenty one month drift was excellent.
No scurvy appeared. We used distilled
water and bear and seal meat twice a
week. No rum was served out. Divine
service was regularly held. We took
plenty Of exercise. Everybody hunted.
Game was scarce. We got 30 bears. 25C
seals and 6 walrus. No fish or whales
were seen.
"All possible observations were made
during the drift, the result showing a
northwest course. The ship was kceled
over, and heavily pressed by the ice most
Of the time. The mental strain was heavy
OH some pats of the ships company. The
result of the drift for the first five months
was forty miles. There was a clycloidal
movement of the ice. The drift during
tho last six months was very rapid.
''The soundings were pretty even
There We're eighteen fathoms near Wran
CELL Land which was often visible seventy
ty-five miles distant. The greatest depth
found was eighty fathoms, and the aver
agc thirty five. The bottom was blue mud.
Shrimps and plenty Of algological speci'
mems were brought up from the bottom
The surface water had temperature OF
twenty degrees above zero.
'Thc extremes Of temperature Of the
air were " Greatest cold, 5S below zero,
and the greatest heat, Al above zero. The
first winter the mean temperature was 3:
below zero. The second wiuter was 3!
below zero. The first summer mean tenn
perature was 40 degrees above zero. The
heaviest gale showed 4 velocity Of about
fifty miles an hour. Such gales are no,
frequent. Barome;ic and thermOmetrit
fluctuations We're not great. There were
disturbances of the needle coincident with
the aurolas. The winters growth OF ice
was eight feet. The heaviest ice seen was
twenty three feet Engineer Shock.
heavy truss saved the ship on November
81 from being crushed.
The telephone wires were broken bj
movement Of the ice The photograph.
collection was lost with tine ship. Lieu
tenant Chipp's two thousand auroral ob
scrvations were also lost The maturalst's
notes have beer saved.
"Jcapnette island was discovered Ma J
1G in latitude 76 degrees AZ minute:
north longitude 15S degrees 56 minute!
east. It was small and rocky, and we die
not visit it. Henrietta island was dis
covered and visited on May "a in latitude
- degrees s minutes north longitude
151 degrees SO minutes east. 1t is All ex
tenSivc island. Animals were scarce and
glaciers plenty.
. Bennett Island. lies in latitude 7G dc.
gIees IS minutes north; longitude 14t
degrees 20 minutes east, 1t is very large
On it We found many birds, old horns
driftwood and coal, bat no seal or walrus
Great tidal action was observed. The
coast was bold aud rocky. The cape or
the south coast was named Cape Emma
eve drifted back during the first week
of tho retreat 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 will
loads.
"Lieutcnant Chipp's boat did better
tLan ours { Melville's) during the after
noon Of September 1s, the three boats
having got clear of the ice off Semin0Osky
Island at noon of that day. About dusk
lie was q thousand yards off our weather
quarter and lowered sail as if rounding to
We lay to for twenty four hours under :
triangular drag.
Nothing was seen of Lieut.. Chip.
boat at daylight. Tic could not get back
to the island in northeast gale. He was
unable to carry his share Of provisions.
observed a strong easterly current near the
Lena delta. There We're masses Of drift
wood between the Siberian islands.
Jack Coles mind is not wholly alien
:.;ed. He has not been violent for twelve
days, but is happy and harmless. Getting
home may restore him."