Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-04

have proved to be erroneous. have they uot?"
les. Petermann supposed that WraDgell
Land was an extension Of Greenland, con-
tinental body OF land, while we have proved
its insularity."
From your recent experience d YOU at
tach any weight to the theory Of al open
polar ssa?"
4 have seen no ground to base such sn
opinion upon / have some views on the
subject, however, which l hope to formulate
Tor a more careful public expression than
would be possible Just DOW"
DO you, in the Light OF the results thus
far reached, regard the discovery of the pole
as practicable?"
Il think that with repeated efforts some
thing can be accomplished toward it. Ny
experience OF three months of boating and
siedging leads me think that Markham's
Latitude, the highest so far reached (sbout
400 miles from the pole), can be surpassed.
nave plan OF my own, but would not care
to go into that at present"
You were very kindly treated by the
Russian government and the imperial
family?"
Very kindly indeed. The Grand Duke
Alexis Kept me three-quarters of an hour
answering his questions. 1t was, perhaps,
curious feature of the interview that | ad-
dressed him simply as Sir not as Your
Highness.' l thought the formal appellatio
was unnecessary between naval men on such
an occasion, and he did not seem to take il
at all amiss. At the interview which l had
with the emperor and empress a. CATCHING l
was very much surprised at the out-of-the-
way corner of the palace in which they APP
peared to be slowed away, at the uupreten-
tiousness OF the apartment, and more than
anything else, at the empress real and
cordially-expressed sympathy with the fate
| OF belong"
THE JEANETTE WAS SEAwoRTHY.
On point which has caused some discus
sion, Lieutenant Daneuhower said to a lib
uRe reporter: 1.-THE impression that the Je-
annette was uuse aworthy is all wrong. Her
modei was described as peculiarly fitted for
Arctic exploration, and l don't believe that
better ship or 8 stronger hull ever entered
| the Arctic ocean. The London Staad1rd SAID
| that We left her adrift, which Is a lie We
left her after her hold was full of water
She had been frozen in the ice twenty-one
months and was lying clear over on her
beams, exactly as is represented in the pic
ture published in the London Illustrated Netrs
| She was tilted so that We couldn't even crawl
about in her except by the help of life
lines, aOd We were camped on the ice along
side. We knew thst after the ice broke
up We would be helpless on board the
ship. Hou can get an idea OF The situation
| by imagining this carpet here to be the
Arctic ocean; here's the Jeanette at my
ieet. Now do you suppose that you could
ever get her, say 20 the corner yonder, with
all these figures representing the floating
ice? She was bound 10 90 down. We had
prepared TO abandon her long before june
. 10,-lSS1, when she was let down into the
, water by the separating ice as smoothly as
-. though she was being launched. Orders were
not given TO leave her, however, until after
: she mad twice been closed in upon BY the ice,
and we saw that she wouldn't 'lift' belong
I was the last man on board OF her. The next
night We heard the crEsh as sse went down.
, I don't know whether DeLong saw her sink
or not. l didn't: we were not in condition
to sit up and watch for such q spectacle.
Next morning we took an account OF our pro-
visions. We had $500 pounds of pemmican,
1900 pounds of hard-bread, plenty of tea,
some canned fowl beet-extract ana a GUAM
tity of alcohol"
"What is pemmicssr"
"Psmmican is an article OF IooS nut up IN
cans by Il man in Baltimore, winch Is much
used by the men of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany. 1t is meat pulled into shreds, mixed
in fat with sugar and raisins. It's very
gond-as good az fruit-cake"
What was the condition Of the men at
this timer"
"Ahont one-Gusrter of them we're sick from
! tin poisoning, which had first shown itself
7 about a month before. 1t came from the
| caused a severe collie or cramP in the bowels.
We slowed our provisions and three boats on
| five sledges, and started on June 10th, trav-
cling by night and sleeping by day, to avoid
| being blinded by the snow. Chipp tainted
from weakness the first day and l was on the
sick-list because OF my eyes. Melville stayed
| by me most of the time on the march, help
| ing me out of the assures fell into. The men
| took one sled forward at a time, so that
they had 10 go over the road thir-
teen timer, and walk about twenty-six
miles to advance two. Then the ice kept
| drifting, as it had when we were with the
Jeanette, and it went north faster than we
| walked south. We saw land July 18th. Ii took
Us long time to reach it, but we camped
there for some time, when finally we made
landing. On August 4th W re able to
launch the beats, and in them we got along
| faster, sometimes ten miles a day, but we
! we're in continual danger of having them
crushed by the ice, and once the whaleboat
| TO which l belonged, and of which Melville
had been given command, was nearly
swamped. After a rest from September 9th
to the 18th in camp we started again, and
got into the gale which separated the boats.
We saw the coast of Siberia on September
18th, after we had been in the storm los
hours, but we did not succeed in making H
landing until the next day. On the 10Th We
met the natives, who gave us food and helped
us out of our difficulties"