Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-09
ANOTHER STORY.
traveller Of Siberia Tells Story About
the Jeanette Grew.

Washington, d. c., January T.
kprge KEENAN, of this city, who has
tveled extensively in Siberia, and
Ia is probably the best authority in
la country upon the geography of
Fctic Asia, speaking of statement
3egraphed from Boston that the bod
of the crew of the Jeannette's
bond cutter has been found
an American artist in the
HID of Khatango, long narrow
I'M OF the Arctic ocean south and
N of Tailmar peninsula, says the
kry strikes him as very clumsy in
htion. KEENAN, adds the mouth of
4 gulf Khatango, is more than three
mildred miles in an air line
N more than five hundred
Hes following the coast from the
ice where the boats of the Jeanette
Harated. Lieutenant Chip knew
nv well that Captain DeLong in
hded TO land at the mouth of the
INA, and it is hardly supposed he
bud deliberately and voluntarily go
hee or four miles farther westward
hd land in the edge of the Faimur
minsula, the dreariest, most desolate
hd least known part of the entire
birth Siberia coast. OF course he
ipht have been blown there against
i will, BUTT is in the highest degree
hprobable. If one should
NJ sight of q small boat
NV miles off Sandy Hook with gale
|bwing on the shore, he would hardly
I pect to find that boat on the coast of
buth Carolina, but this, perhaps, is the
hst of the stories and improbabilities.
he artist said to have discovered
lieutenant Chipp's party on the coast
Khatango went there according TO
Is letter for the purpose of finding a
tother-in-law eXiled to the Szerma
lines. / do not think there is mine
Russian settlement of any kind
|ithin four hundred miles of the
|outh of the Khatango Gulf, in any
|rectien. The nearest inhab-
bible places are Yerzaick,
hd Khatangsk, both four hundred
lilies inland. A few Samayades wan
Erin the summer over Toondra, which
rs along the Arctic Ocean in that
but in the winter, even they
|tire to the interior and leave the
|hole region uninhabited. The
louth of the Khatango Gulf lies in
|titude IS degrees, almost as far north
the winter quarters of DR.. Kane,
hd it could be reached mt season
hen West says he went there only
h well-equipped arctic expedition
he letter telegraphed from
|oston, besides being sus
details is full of alb
hrdities and inaccuracies. The pres
hce of man in the north can be dc
bcted at II distance of half q mile or 81
h peculiar strong odor.
rThe men represented as being afrai(
b not live within 500 miles of Kha
lingo Gulf and it is next to impossible,
hat traveller in that region should
|wer learn their name. All the details
f finding the supposed survivor o
Tic second cutter strike me rs simpl,
meposl erous. According to TIN
gleged record found in Bible sup
bsed to belong to Kuchete one, a
east, of the crew lived until the secont
II March 1882 in other words an mex
erienced,sailor thrown on an uninhab
Ftti ptiiinSutb III iltlUuuG ~ WltnOu
pod or proper clothing and shelter
wed through the Arctic winter NTH
purse Of which the sun was continu
|hsly below horizon for nearly on
hundred days. If Captain belong
|arty could not keep themselves aliv
bnger than a month in the Lena Delt
L the beginning ofautumn, it is hardl,
reasonable to suppose one of Lieuten
int Chepps' crew lived through tn
Einter six months on a still more bar
en- coast, and at a point two or tire
|egrees farther north. The loss o
|he Jeanette had been known months
|n every Russian settlement of north
|rn Siberia. If the bodies of the whit,
|nen had been found on tn
Eulf of Khatango last spring
IS reported by this letter, the Russian
authorities at Yerzaisk would hav,
been informed of the fact before mid
hummer, and we should have had new
promptly by telegraph. Neither Sec
|etary Frelinghuysen nor Secretary
chandler have been informed with re
gard to the alleged finding of the
bodies of the crew of the Jeanette
|econd cutter.