Connecticut western news., 1882-05-03
AWAY UP NORTH.
Fhe Voyage of the Jeannette-Dan-
 enhoWer's Narrative.

ANA1 UT NOh1hs Fhe Voyage of the Jeannette-Dan-
 enhower's Narrative.
 From his conversation with Lieuten- ant Danenhower the Herald correspond ent has written out the narrative of the | Jeannette's first year in the ice. It is story of absorbing interest, graphic in it's simplicity and filled with the varied picturesque detail of incidents that | crowd upon the memory of one who so many months later endeavors to recall l the daily life of an eventful time; how they lived from day to day; how from hour to hour they stood ready to take their chance in a desperate final fight | with the elements what they thought; what they saw and said; the confidence that grew in one another by standing shoulder to shoulder in moments of inn minent peril the attempt in the face of ever present death to extract knowledge for scientific uses from observation of the phenomena of nature; the specula- tive conversations on the play of the forces that had them in an unrelenting grip-all this is told now for the first time in the words of one who was part of all that happened.
 On September the Jeannette en. tered, with the captain in charge in the crows nest, lead of open water that was supposed to be the lead between the Siberian and North American packs, and which it was assumed might be fol- lowed to an open polynia in high lati- tude. Through much new ice the ship rammed her way, but at four in the afternoon had become immovable. There she was secured for the night, with fires banked. That night was ex. ceedingly cold, and she was frozen in. As soon as her position was fully ex- amined she was found to be in the mid dle of vast accumulation of foes frozen together, the whole about four miles across as if, indeed, in that unluckily cold night the ship had become the nu. cleus around which the moving foes were arrested for sufficient period to be congealed into one mass. Herald Is- land was in sight at distance of 21 miles, but when, some days later, an at tempt was made to reach it it was found to be inaccessible because of open water within few miles of the beach. It has often been subject of comment that no cairns were found by Captain Berry on either Herald Island or Wrangell Land, and this has seemed the more remark able since it has been known that the Jeannette was for five months within sight of one or the other of these points of land, and it has been argued that if in cairn on one of these islands there of the Jeannette down to about the period when the drift carried her far be- yond that limit to the northwest, it would have been an inevitable indication for all efforts at rescue to be made on the Siberian coast. MT. Danenhower gives on that point the simple explana- tion as above, that on the first attempt to land water was found, and when it was discovered that there was an ir. regular drift movement there appeared no equivalent advantage for sending 8 party to so great distance from the ship that she might be carried beyond their reach before they could return.
 From this critical period of the im- prisonment of the steamer, only four days later than the time when she was last seen by an Arctic whaler, the story is mainly continuous record of the magnificent resistance of the gallant little ship and the good conduct of her company. Lieutenant Danenhowers s recital in detail of the sensations of the days when the strain on her seemed ? such as might from moment to moment
 rend her to ribbons is made more pa.
 thetic by the remembrance that he all
 the time was down below, shut in $
 darkened berth, standing this trial alone
 in silence and solitude. Perhaps it was
 due to this that the impressions were 5 made so wildly. In the theory that was argued between Danenhower anG 5 Chipp of the Arctic ice we may get a least an imagination Of its force. They conceived of the polar world as covered ' with one continuous cap of ice, whicl - reyolved around the Pole under the in fiuence of the Arctic winds, and, as thu ice cap swept around, it's outer edg' . plowed away the continents or island u in it's path, or by accidental changes il ,. currents or winds the cap itself wa /. shattered by the fearful force of it's owl ;. ' movement. In the outer edge of tha ice cap the Jeannette was caught, am :, her fate was sealed from the momen '- she was so caught because she coul'
 only be freed by force that woul' crumble her up with the crumbled ic ' and would pulverize the rock of Git ? raltar if it were there.
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