The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-05-07
DeLong and His Comrades Literally
Starved to Death.
The Two Who Escaped Live on Moe
casins and Sole Leather.
Eleve en- Men in all Meet Their Hor
rible and Untimely Fate.
The Last and Greatest Blow t
Future Arctic Elk plorations.

correspondent had an interview Will
Louis 2. Noros, under date of Irkutsk
March 2. He says they landed at
point near the northwest branch of tn,
Lena, but which t~heir.captain found il
impossible to enter on account of the
shoals. DeLong therefore determined
to land at a point from whence they
could see this northerly outlet, but
more to the east, and presumably Real
the point marked Sagasta on the map
Two miles from the beach, he says,
the captain ordered those of the men
who could walk, to get out and drag
the boat nearer in shore. The captain,
doctor, Erickson and Boyd, all disabled,
stayed in the boat, which the others
were enabled to drag a mile further
toward the land, when they too waded
to the shore. The others, who had left
the boat with the first lot, had made
A FIRE ON THE SHORE.
This was on or about the 10th of Sep
TENDER, and the landing OF articles was
completed on the 18th. There the par
ty stayed tive days to recuperate, all
the men being badly frost bitten, in
Guiding the captain, the doctor alone
being in a comparatively good condi-
ton. Noros and Ninderman were in
the best condition among the men
The journey south vas then commenced,
the burdens being equally distributed
the captain bore his own blankets and
some records. The burdens borne by
some of the others were heavy. Some
complained of taking them further, but
the captain insisted. The party Their
travelled south four days, On the way
two deer were shot by indian AleIei
The party sat down and had a good
feed, Belongs motto being, Moro:
says, ito feed well while they had it.
Noros thinks they made twenty miles
in the first ten days, and that they had
reached a point near the one marked or
the map as Tcholbogoje. The four next
days brought them to the extremity Of
a peninsula, and after some delay in
waiting for
THE RIVER TO FREEZE,
they crossed the river to the west bank,
on or about the first Of October. The
width Of the river there was about SOC
Yards. Before crossing they got anoth'
er deer. The captains intention wa!
to make for the place called Ssgasta
On the way Erickson died. His toes
had been amputated by the doctor dur
ing the retreat. After crossing tn,
river, he INT night pulled off his nit
tens, and one Of his hands became fros'
bitten, and the circulation could not b,
restored in it. He died and was buried
in the river. Then it was hat the cap
tain decided to send Noros and Min
deman ahead. The food had beer
quite exhausted, and the party were e1
listing only on brandy. Noros thinks i
was Sunday when they left. The cap
tain had held divine service, the mel
seated on the bank of the river. Afte,
service he called the two men, and tolt
them he wanted them to push ahead
and that he would follow with his par
ty. "If you find game, then return t,
US; il you do not, then 60 to Kumai
Surka." were his last words. Noroi
thus describes
THE PARTING.
The captain read divine service be
fore we left; all the men shook hand
with us, and most of them had tears II
their eyes. Collins was the last; h
simply said, "Noros when you get t
New York remember me-" The
seemed to have lost hope, but as we LEI
they gave US three cheers. We toll
them that we would do all that W
could do, and that was the last we sa,
of them. Such is Noros' story of tn
last seen Of Capt. belong and his sui
fering party. Noros continued: Whe
we left the captain said that Kuma
Surka would be our nearest village
Snow had fallen to the depth of a foe
to a foot and a half.
From questions then put to Noros
gathered the following description
the place of leave taking: The rive
was about 500 yards wide, and the plac
was near where the mountains on Ii
western side ended. There was OF
spot which remained distinctly in
, pressed upon his mind, namely: a hig
%conical rocky island, which rose up o,
: Of the river, and which was called o
tava or Stalboy. Hew he got the nan
. is not quite clear, but the rocky islar
/ is marked in his memory, and it boi
+ about east by north from the spot whei
THEY LEFT THE CAPTAIN.
The rock, he says, is just at the Ell
!, of the mountains. The mountains cor
mence with that rock. After leavir