Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-29
GARLINGTON'S ORDERS.
THE SUPPLEMENTAL INsTRUC-
TIONS NOT RECEIVED.

Fuller Particulars of the Probably Fa-
tai Cruise Reported by Commander
Wildes-No Stop Made at Littleton
Island on Account of the Original
Orders
WAsHINGTON, Sept. 28.-The Secretary
Of the Navy has lust received from Com
mander Frank Wildes, of the United
states steamer Yantic, full report Of the
cruise Of that vessel up the western coast
ofGreenland last summer, while serving in
the capacity OF a reserve ship for the
Greelys Relief Expedition, under COM
mand Of Lieutenant Darlington. The re-
port is dated st. John, n. F., Sept. II.
and covers with great fullness of detail
the movements of the Yantic from the
18th Of June, when she sailed with the
Proteus for Godhaven to the 11th Of Sep
tember, when she returned alone to St
John.
The main points of the report have been
anticipated by telegraph, but Commander
Wildes' concluding observations are worth
recording. They are as follows: Sir
Allen Young, one Of the highest living
authorities on arctic matters, saws that
all projects connected with arctic nayi@a-
ton must necessarily be very speculative
and 1t is out of all human foresight to
anticipate events in those regions The
truth OF this we have experienced to its
fullest extent, and | earnestly represent
To the department the inadyisabiity Of
again sending a vessel north of New
tOundland unless built and eUIined
to encounter heavy ice and provision
ed and clothed TO spend an
arctic winter. From the latitude of Cape
Farewell nOrthward it is impossible to
say where ice will be met, and thick
weather prevails to such an extent that
with the utmost care vessel may become
involved. Had the Yantic been of this
description there was nothing to prevent
my forcing passage into the fast ice
about Cape \ 1Ork and remaining there or
of maintaining our position until the ice
opened or moved off the shore. | Dur-
p0sely put this vessel on several occasions
into the edge Of pack to ret
some idea of how she would
behave, and the result was not encour-
aging. The damage to the screw rudder
and rudder post was greatly to be felt"
All vessels which cruise in these waters
carry heavy iron two-bladed lifting
screws, as we'll as spare ones and a spare
rudder. Commander Wildes forwards
with his report the original records left by
Lieutenant Darlington in two cairns, on
his way north before, and on the way
south after the wreck of the PrOteuS.
1ueSe records indicate that Lieutenant
Darlington was acting under instructions
originally furnished him by the Signal
Bureau, and that he could
not have received the supplemental
instructions which have been given to the
public since the news of the loss Of the
PrOteus. BY his first instructions Gar
lngtOn was required to proceed north as
last as possible, and not to stop to deposit
stores or the framed house which he car
rled If the way was clear for him, but to
land these articles on his return, should
his expedition prove failure. The sap
elemental instructions directed him to
land the house and stores at Littleton Is
land on the way north, as means of pre-
caution. no matter what the conditions
were. Lieutenant Darlington does not
appear to have ever received these sup
Elemental instructions, because he passed
by Littleton Island without stopping, and
shortly after lost his vessel with all the
reserve stores and his shelter hOuSp