The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-09
ARCTIC EXPLORERS.
NEw1 OF THE JEANETTE cREw.
Supposed VI NA.r..bsuh Of D. Lsns'. rsrt,-ra..r.
.StlDs Log Of Lln Oh shipSOlrd-TAs WsA.
dsrS Of tie Waters and P.saIIlrittss Of
the Climate Of Ii. Far North.
NEw YoRK, February s.-yia French.
Atlantic cable to the Herald:

NEw YoRK, February s.-Via French.
Atlantic cable to the Herald:
PARIS, February 8.
The following dispatch from Lieutenant
Danenhower, dated 1rkutsk, February 4,
has just been received here; De Longs
party is between station Baliaa and Sis
terock, Ustolousk, in narrow wilderness,
eighty miles long, devoid Of habitatioa and
game. jerome ]. Commins volunteered to
stand by the dying seaman, Hans Erick.
son, and let the others Of De Longs
party to push south. The new search
builds huls and goes over every inch Of
region which is ploughed by heavy drift ice
every spring. Life on Jeanette: We Wis.
tied Nordenskjols winter quarters and
found he was safe before we entered the ice
near Herald island. General health Of the
crew during the month Of drift excellent. No
scurvy appeared. We used distilled water
and bear and seal meat twice
week. No rum was served out.
Divine services regularly held. We took
plenty OF exercise. Everybody hunted;
game scarce. We got about thirty bears,
twenty-five seals and SIX waIrus. No fsh
or whales seen. All possible observations
were made during the drift, the result
proving northwest course. The ship was
keeled over and heavily pressed by the Ice
most Of the time. The mental strain was
heavy on some Of the ships company. Re-
suit OF the DRIFT the first Eve months, forty
miles, There was cycloidal movement Of
ice drifts in the last six months and yery
rapid. Sounds. pretty even, they were IS
fathoms near Wrangell Land, which was
often visible seventy.five miles distant,
The greatest depth found was 50 fathonfs,
and the average 95. Bottom blue mud,
shrimps and plenty Of algalgical specimens
being brought up from the bottom. Sur
face water had temperature Of 20 degrees
above zero. The extreme OF temperature
Of air was: Greatest cold, 5So below zero;
greatest heat d4' above zero; the first
winter the mean temperature was 33o be.
low zero; the second winter 39' below zero;
the first summer the mean temperature was
40' above zero. The heaviest gale showed
u velocity OF about so miles an hour, but
such gales were not frequent. The baron.
eter and thermometer fluctuations were
not great. There werc disturbances Of
the needle co-incident with the
auroras The winter'sgrowth OF ice eight feet
The heaviest ice seen was twenty-five feet,
Engineer Sch0ck's heavy truss saved. The
ship on November 81 was crushed. Tele.
phone wires broken by the movement OF
the ice. Photographic collection lost with
the ship. Lieut. Chipp's 1900 aurora[
observations also lost. Naturalist's notes
saved, Jeanette Island discovered May
IL, in latitude 76' AN north longitude,
and 1859 5GW east, It was small and
rocky. Did not visit It. Henrietta
Island was discovered and visited May "a,
in the latitude 770 s. north longitude, 1872
S2> east. 1t is m extensive island, ami
mails scarce and glaciers plenty. Bennett
Island lies in latidute 7Gd So north lopgi.
tude l4So 2O> east. 1t is very large. Omit
we found many birds, old drift wood and
coal, but no seal or walrus. Great tidal ac-
tion is observed. Coast is bald and rocky.
The Cape on the south coast was named
Cape Emma. We shifted back during the
first week. We retreated q miles more than
we advanced. The snow was knee deen.
We had to go thirteen times over and over
our track, seven times with loads. Lieut.,
Chipp's boat did better than ours. Dur.
ing the afternoon Of September 18th,
the three boats having got clear
Of the Ice Oft Seminosky Island at noon
that day. About dusk he was thousand
yards of our weather quarter, and lowered
his sail us il rounding to, We lay to
for twenty.fopr hours, but nothing
could be seen OF Lieutenant Chipps
boat at daylight. He could not get
back to the Island in the northeast
gale. He was unable to carry his share Of
the provisions. observed u strong east.
erly current near Lena Delta. There were
masses Of 1Fiitwpod 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.