The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-01-04
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Eaes.eas's Report Foand Beside ri
Dead Body. sEas1e raBtIe
u asIFSGToS. Dec. % = Del .ong's r
pork. found bssiae his dead body, ha
been male public. Il makes tiairt,
thousand wersis Of details Incident I,
i.the cruise from the departure from ssa,
Francisco in 1879 10 January |. Ii
| principal feature is an elaborate accoun
of belongs Views in regard 10 The ex
| petition. He considered it good ilrlq
meat - head fer Ntangesi Land. Iii
Idea was that the country was aaapsed
los support Tor the first winters cam
palgn He embodies the story Of how
the land Was sighted aad how hs EXPECT
cd 10 reach 1t, and graphically deecribes
now, ON Tue next day, the Jeaanette he.
came beset In the lee never again 10 bf
relieved. and says the party was com
PEELED TO make virtue of NECESSITY and
stay where they were.
Sometimes ali night aud sometimes
day aad night from January Ia 10 Feb
fnaFy 4, Swectman and Niderman stood
down ia the fore peak,
IcY WATER FLOWING AROUND
them nearly IN their knees, working
faithfully until the work was ACCOM-
pltshed. and the good results of that
work were evident in the gradual re-
duetlon ot the water coming into the
ship Snd the ability 10 control the leak.
amid such Tuinohs expenditure of fuel
as had been necessary Therefore, il is
Tor these reasons I have had the honor
TO recommend these men 10 you for
medals OF honor - AN appreciation of
lhelr Aerole conduct under the most
trying circumstances. Captain De-
Longs record Of The winter and SUN
mer OF 1850 Is, tor the most part, mo.
notonous record OF storms, ice move
ments, constant anxiety, and
ALMOST uNBRoKEN DISAPPOINTMENT
IN short, an Attic summer drew 10
close without setting the Jeanette free
and another winter approached De.
Long evidently began la revolve ia his
mind The question whether it would not
be better to abandon the ship and make
Tor the northern coast of Siberia over
the ice, than risk a second winter in the
pack. Under dale Of September 20,
1880, ks says, dislike naturally 10
dwell on the idea of abandonment of
the ship. We have come through so
much, II gives me hopes Of surviving
more as long as enough Of ihe ship re-
mains to shelter us. Sticking hv that
fragment Is preferable 10 camping on
the Ice and can conceive of no greater
EoRIoRN HoT'E.
than the atiernpt To reach Siberia Isty
24Q miles dist4bt) over The ice that sur
rounds us, and with winters cold sap
ping ones life at every step. OF course,
II We We're 10 lose our ship we would
make an effort To gel there, but our
chances Of success would be extremely
problem attic. The last entry in the rec
ord is dated December 81, 1880, and is
as follows: The minstreis are ringing
in the new year in latitude 73 dogs. As
min. north, longitude III dogs. % min.
east. During the past sixteen months
We have drifted 1900 miles
far enough il il had been
in a straight line, - carry us
TO AND BEYOND THE roIE;
but We are only geo miles northwest OF
where we were first beset. We have
suffered injury and danger has often
confronted US. We have been squeezed
and iammed, tossed and tumbled. We
have pumped a leaking ship for year,
but we are not yet dagbted and are as
ready to dare everything as ever we
were, and we face the new year firmly,
hoping 10 do something worthy of our.
selves, of Benefits enterprise and of the
dag above Us. In less thaa ten months
after these words were written, the
deannette was at the bottom OF the
Arctic ocean aud DeLong lay dead in
the Lena Delta