The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-04-11
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ACCOUNTS OF THE .HoMEwARD JOUR-
EEY AND sIB ERIAN HOSPITALITY. a

| 2o New York world, March % 81 h5S'
| Ensign III. T. HINT e. S. N, of
the Rodgers search expedition, and
Frank A. Manson, Herbert W.
Leech, James III. Bartlett and John
Lauterbach, the last detachment of
the survivors of the Jeanette ex-
pedition, arrived yesterday on the
steamer Westphalia from Hamburg.
The men are all in excellent health
and spirits and show no outward
indications of the terrible ordeal
through which they have passed.
Ensign Hunt, who has charge of
the four men, said; "There were
seven in the party when we started
from Bulun. The others were two
natives-Aniguin, an Indian hunter,
and Thornam, an Interpreter. We
left Bulun, which is at the mouth
of the Lena River, October % and
travelled. day and night on two
sleds drawn by deer teams. The
journey to Verkhoiansk required
ten days. From that point we were
ten days in making the journey to
Yakutsk, from thence nine. days to
jViteem and from that point two
days in making the journey
to Kivinsk. Here the party sep
arated. Eeech was sent ahead with.
Lauterbach and at Kivinsk with
Manson and Bartlett to oversee the
medical treatment Of Aniguin, the
Indian hunter, who was taken sick
with. small -pox We remained at
Kivinsk until January. s, when
Aniguin died. Our Journey to
Irkutsk occupied four days, which
was fast travelling, the usual time
being six days.. The next stage et
our journey, to = Orenburg, sn the
Russian boundary, occupied twenty
four days. From this point we
came by railroad to st. Petersburg.
We remained there week and then
took q small steamer for Hamburg,
whore we embarked on the West
phalia for New York. ''sa5 f1sst3 ~
4 At the Continental. Hotel a re-
porter of. The World saw M.a Leech.
He said that on board the Jeannette
the men AL had a good time I even
when wedged in by the ice. They
had liquor in moderation and to-
bacco in abundance. at almost
broke my heart 2 he said, "to have
to leave so much good tobacco be-
hind in the Jeannette to take with
us only a pound a man.. We made
that last as long as possible, and
then we took tea leaves from which
tea bad been made, dried them and
smoked them It Twas a poor sub
cstitute for tobacco, but by long odds
better than nothing. When we got
among the natives Of Siberia we oc-
lcasionally obtained some native to-
bacco. We got it in leaf form It
had never been cured and was
strong enough to knock a horse
down, but you bet we enjoyed it. "
Mr.. Leech spoke very highly of
the hospitality shown them in ST. 3
IBERIA by. the natives and the Rus
slams. "I never metsuch hospitable
people, he said. ''Whether civilized
or savage it was just the same.
They made us welcome to the best
they had, though when we first got
among the natives that was moth
ing better than rotten geese geese
that had been killed three or four
months previous and kept in a froz-
en- condition for future consumption.
Oh, they were not SO bad, when
you can't get anything else. But
the natives Ought to start a TIM can
ing estab blishment' o = Mr.. Ieech had
both feet frost bitten in the boats.
One If the crew cut off half Of one
toe with jack knife, but. could not
amputate the bone. 9 That Job was
reseayed for a. Russian doctor In. 81
IBERIA, who completed the operation
with an instrument which, Mr.
Leech said, slooked very much Ike
a huge pair Of sheepsshears, and
when after much 'squeezing, the
bone snapped # thought my leg
had gone. But my feet don t atro1ble
me much now" io ssf'a,2a So q n3f
ssHow did you ever eometO run
for the legislature, anyhows?Siasked
Charles eO'Bear of Myer Hudgine,
a newleynelected memberllofa the
Missouri Legislature and who lis
Austin forghis health.nBHI +
did iG to bring disgrace onmy uncle.
He treated me badly when / was a !
boy, and j tooka fearful VOW that / s
would ahnmiliate him, and L have
done it.ys aWhat business bis your
uncle engaged in r. she ID making
slrunA in the. 0hio renifanfiarv1, =,