The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-17
Story OF tho Jeannette Expedition.

Mrs. De Long mas EDITED the book OF
her husband in relation to the voyago OF
the Jeanette. 1t Is an interesting story
! and Ill 1t ID Long thus speaks of his com
panions: "Chipp is as he always was and
always will be-calm aud earnest. He
has always something to do and Is ALWAYS
! doing 1t in that quiet, steady and sure
manner Of his. Elc smiles rarely and saws
very little, but know where he Ia and
! how reliable and sure he is in every re.
spccL." Dancnhower Is ''the same az
ever, does his work well and navlgatcs
correctly" Melville ls '.as bright as a
dollar and as cheerful ns possible all tho
TIME. He sits on my left at table and
helps me- to carve aud serve out. We broke
pump rod two days ago. Some engineers
would have wanted to stop ship q
lew days for this, or, perhaps, turn back.
| NOT h>; he SAYS all right; we will run
without pump rod, hey, brother; and
when we get IN will make you a new
pump rod or fifty of them.' believe he
c)ulu make an onglne out of Il few barrel
| hoors If he tried hard. lie IL one of the
strong points of this expedition. lie and
DT. Amber are much alike in some lg.
| spects. The Doctor Is al would have
! nm, bright and cheerful under all Circuln-
stances. Dung our bad weather he was
| around all the time, cheering up Collins
| ami Newcomh, holding up the Chinese
| cook when necessary, and facing tho music
like man. He aud Melville have chris.
| tened Newcomb 'Ninkum.' and OCCASION
| ally hear one of them sing ont on seeing
an albatross, Here, Ninky, qulckl Come
and catch gooscl'" Mr. Collins suffered
great deal from scasickncss hut he soon
got all right. collins IS the same Collins
getting OF puns all the tlmc-somc of
them good and some Of them wrctchcdly
poor. For while we steadily refused 10
! see his puns. aud would all look at him as
lnnoccntly aud mqnlrinGly as babies men
he got one OF, asking him to explain 1t
TWO or three times over, until he finally
exclaimed that our inielects must be
weakening IN proportion as we increased
our distance from San Francisco. Now,
however, we let hlni pun away, praise the
GOOD ones and condemn the bad."
During the early part OF tho voyage they
had pleasant enough time, between Mel
ville's high spirits and Collins puus. Sing
Ing seemed TO be one o. the amusyments.
that Captain De Long proposed getting up
choir, with Collins at tho organ.
The Jeannette left San Francisco in
July, IN October she was seized by the ice
and held fast. Here begins the tragedy.
The record of each day ls one of alternate
nope and dependency. The mcrcsl straw
WAS clutch"d nt 0lly to break in their
hands. y here Is n wonderful suncncss
III our du,y life, wrucs the G ,mm under,
land can "a Yet device no efii ncnt way
of ch"n 9tng The mon 'tony" Ga Christ
mas Eve, ''in order that sOmo little con
vivlaE'y and good feeling might be o2ca
stoned or encouragcd,' Captain DE Long
served out 'nrec quarts OF wh,skcy among
the men and Melville 'msxcd a tlue COM
pound iron. Irish WhiaMay nr4s .nten by
Paymastor Cochran, and those ait l>incd
IN drinking merry Chrls,mas to the ab
sent onos. ''At last Christmas Dav
dawnei-;hc first pa sod aoonrI the Jean
nette." ''inis is The drearlest day have
over experienced IN my li(e," says the
journal, ''an;i it IL certainly passed IN the
drear.cst pAI; ct the world.' And yet he
will not 'mp!ain, tor up to that time they
have had no scilOIs msh ,p. They tried
TO bc l0,'y, hut did not make any SUCCESS
OF It until: hlnner, when, fore and aft, thcy
had such Il ptApd banquet that they were
tor TIM" l,ited out of and beyond the
contemplation ot their surroundings.
Eve: c:ythingIn their rooms was frozen hard.
The frost III the lower drawer Of Captain
DE Longs bureau was 50 solid that he had
| 10 work with hammer and break the ice
| before ho could get PAIR of pantaloons
ont. The rooms were often literally hung
| with ice, which while it stayed solid did
no harm, bit which when it melted and
| drinced down ON the slccpers was as bad
| fol the health rs tor the comfort. A chase
alter bear was a iavorIlc break in the
~ Ch ltgn W., l.,, ut, "a
/ IN pursuit Of one, revolver IN hand, one
day. but aver be had gone Il mile and a
| half over the ice and snow hr relinq,Iishcd
the chase. Even after they are shot they
manage TO run away and die in some spot
| where they cannot be found. 1t seems
necessary, says Captain Do Long, 'to fill
q bear 81 full OF shot lhnt he ca mot carry
| it To induce hlm to give mp the ghost near
| tho ship"
| 'Scpt' mhcr D, 1880 One ye,r on the
ICE! And we are only 100 miles to the
| nOr;h%ard and westward OF where
We entered it," Another Christmas
| day has come aud they arc still fast
| In the ice. but they socm to be In bet
ter spirits than they were the year before.
Ga Christmas Eve they had minstrel
entertainment in the dcckhousc. Notwlth-
standing the drcarlnCss OF their surrOuud-
! ngs they managed TO crack jokes ami to
laugh at them.
On the last night Of the year they had a
jOlhficatlOn. lut alter that their case be-
| came too desperate for any fun, and il was
not many days before the Jeanette had
| to be deserted. 1t is astonishing how well
Captain d. Long KEEP. up. He seems
| never to have had an hodr Illness, and
was thus cnabl0 to write his record. Soon
we come to the last stages OF this sad
! chronicle. These have already been pub
| lshcd to the world. The closing lines of
this book are peculiarly striking, coming
from tho hand Of one who has suffered 30
severely IN the cause Of Arctic rcsearch:-
'IDc voyage of tho Jeanette IS ended
The scientific results obtained were far leg
than had been aimed at, but wcre nc.
| insignificant. Something was added to
| the stock OF the worlds knowledge; q
slight gam was made in the solution Of the
Arctic problem. Is it SAID that too h,g |,
a price In the lives Of men was paid for
this knowlegc7 Not by such cold calcula
| tion Is human endcavor measured Sacrl-
flee ls nober than ease, unsclhqh life ls
| consummated In lonely death, and the
| world Is ricncr Dy :siis gift OF suffering"
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