Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-13
THE JEANNETTE.
TWO YEARS IN THE ICE.

Conjectures OF the Vessels Achievement, III
the Arcttc-Arrival OF u Portion of the
"haleboat's crew at Yakutsk
\ telegram from Irkutsk, dated Wed.
nesday, noon, says that according to an
official letter dated December Is. Lieuten-
ant Daneuhauer, with five sailsrS, had
| reached Iakutsk, via Nerkho Iansk. The
other six persons rescued with Engineer
All the arrivals are comfortable lodged
and supplied with all they need. As soon
as they feel disposed to continue their
with money and all the necessaries for the
journey.
Captain De Long and the persons with
him had not been discovered up to noon
on the 10th of November, the date of
Lieutenant Danenhauer's departure from
Bolonenga for Yakutsk. Perhaps about
the last idea likely to occur to those who
went with succor would be that there vas
any reason why they should hasten to
transmit an account of how they found the
shipwrecked navi gators. 1t is probable
that when the natives, who Went to the
assistance of De Long, found him they
simply set down and gave their care and
attention To taking care of him and
his comrades and restoring them
to good condition. They likely built
houses 1T the spot fox their protection
because, as they found them in all like!i-
hood unable to so ahead ut any but the
very slowest rate, and as winter weather
was already upon them, that was the only
plan that led the way to safety. Even il
several weeks were given to nursing tho
survivors into health ana strength they
would yet come on very slowly when able
to move, and it may thus appear that.
measuring things by Siberian standards O.
activity, it would have been unreasonable
to suppose that news could have reached
BOlonenga by the time Dancnhauer left
that place. Six weeks is not 4 great while
for any difficult writer journey-least OF
all at the edge of the Arctic ocean
For more than twenty months ii the in.
dieations given Of the history of the expe.
dition shall prove accurate, the Jeanette
was beset in the ice and moved at the
sport of the winds or under the influence
OF the laws of the currents that affect the
ice. She was caught in the ice twenty
seven days from the time she was last
seen, near Herald Island, and never got
free. Arctic navigators have already spec
ulated upon this as the possible secret of
her disappearance and OF her failure to
leave record at Wrangcll Land.
We know the icy conditions that Barry
in the Rodgers found to the east
ward and nOrtheastward Of Wrangcll
Land and the currents he observed there.
De Long was caught in that ice, it must
be supposed, and swept to the northwest
by those currents. AS he left no record
on Wrange!l Land he, OF course, never
reached it and did not reach it for this
reason. Through the winter of 1879 and
the summer and winter of 1890 he was |
the prisoner Of the Arctic forces. and if |
there is such thing as Il circulation of !
sea currents across the Arctic Circle.
moving the ice by 4 great revolution ore !
way or the other, he did not experience |
the operation of its forces, unless it be
that he finally got into the line of that !
movement at the last when it's gigantic !
elements destroyed the ship.
The experience of the Jeannette seems,
iccoldiny to our present information, to
be 4 remarkable repetition of that of the
legethott, which was caught in the ice ut
:he outset of her polar voyage in 1872. The
iegethotf dritted on an ice foe for two
org and dreary years. During, the Jean
iettc's drift her crew 10 iOubt prepared
uoH'ti'tH tuoloHShly lor TIE very trlalS
which awaited them OH the abandonment
If their vessel, and being forearmed for re-
rcat i'll their boats it is reasonable to in
CT that they took precautions which will
nahle them to endure their detention on
he Siberian coast until the succur dis
atched to them can bc realized. judging
rom the experience of the Australian.
;arian expedition i'll the Tegctllotf the
hlef source OF anxiety for those of the
eannette's crew who may now be on the
'i6erian coast lies i'll the danger of scurvy
nd other diseases in the spring.