The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-18
in February and before tho sun returned only
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in February and before tho sun returned only
500 pounds of meat we're obtained.
This year minute shrimps, seaweed, sassafras,
rock lichens and sealskin we're resorted TO for
food with result as shown by the number OF
survivors. The last regular food was issued
May l4tb. Only $50 pounds of meat being left
by Darlington compelled me to sent in Novem-
Der four men to obtain one hundred and forty
four pounds English meat at Isabella. During
the trip Ellison froZe solid both bands and ieet
and lost them all, surviving however through
our terrible winter and spring until July 18th.
The survivors owe their lives to the in
domitable energy of Capt. Schley and Lieut..
Emery who preceded by three and accom-
from Upernavik through Melville
Bav into the north water at Cape
York with the foremost whaler. They gained
yard whenever possible and always held it..
Smith Sound WAS crossed and the party res
cued during one of the most violent gales we
have ever known, and ths boats were handled
only at imminent risk OF swapping. -Four of
us were then unable to walk and could not
have survived exceeding twenty-four hours.
Every care and attention vas given as. We
saved and will bring back copies of meteorolo-
gical, tidal, astronomical, magnetic, pendulum
and other observation pendulums. The
Yale and standard tn rmometers, 46 photo
graphic negatives, collection of blanks and
Photographic proofs, Eskimo relics and other
things were necessarily abandoned. The The
tbs remains here five days probably. y.
(Signed) GREEDY, Commander.
A Costly II onsr- Lieut., GFeeIy's ExpISrR-
tions Extend Farther Than Ever Before
Reached.
WASHINGTON, July 19.-Gen. Hszen, Chief
Signal officer, this afternoon received the fol-
lowing telegram from Lieut.. A. W. Greedy,
dated
ST. JOHNS, N f., July II. Z
For the first time ia three centuries, Eng
land yields the honor of having reached far
thest North. Lieut.. Lock wood and Serges Mt
Brainard May 18th, reached Lockwood Island
lat. 49, "a, long. "A g. They saw, from 1000
feet elevation, no land north or northwest, but
to the northeast of Greenland Cape Robert
Lincoln, lat. SO "a, long. So. Lieut.. Lockwood
was turned back in 1883 by open water on the
North Greenland shore, the party barely es-
Gaping drift into the Polar Ocean. DR.. Pavy
in 1882, following the Markham route, was
ad rift one day In the Polar Ocean, north of
Cape Joseph Henry, and escaped to land,
abandoning nearly everything. In 1882,
made spring, and later summer "trip into
the interior of Grinnell land, discovering
Lake Hazen, some go by 10 miles in extent
which, fed by an ice cap of north Grinnell
land, drains the Ruggles river and Weyprecht
ford into Conybeare Bay and Archer ford.
From the summit of Mt. Archer, 5000 feet,
the contour of the land vest OF the Conger
mountains convinced me that Grinnell land
tends directly sonth from Lieut.. Aldrich's
and Ssrgt Brainard succeeded in crossing
Grinnell land, and so miles from Beatrix
Bay, at the head of AFcher's ford, struck the
head of ford from the western sea, Temporal
rly named by Lieut.. Lockwood, Greedy ford.
From the centre of the ford, in lat. 5000, Ion.
Is 30, Lieut. Lock v God saw the northern shore
termination some 20 miles west, thu Southern
shore extending some fifty miles, with
Cape Lock wood some 20 miles distant, and
apparently separate land from Grinnell' g land.
Have named the new land Arthur laud. Lieut..
Lockwood folio Eed, goiFg and returning an
ice cap averaging about Is feet per-
pendicular fsee. 1t follows that GrinneIl land
interior is ice capped with belt of country
some 60 miles vide between the northern and
southern ice caos.
In March, 1884, Sergeant Lang, while hunt
ing, looked from the north west side of Mount
Carey to Hayes Sound seeing northern coast,
three cspes, westward al the farthest seen by
Mares in 1876. The SQUAD extends some 20
miles farther west than is shown by the Eng
fish chart,but possibly is shut in by land which
showed up across the western end. The two
years station duties, observations, all the ex-
p]orations and the retreat to Cape Sabine we're
accomplished without loss of life, disease, seri-
GUS accident, or even severe frost bites. No
scurvy was experienced at Conger, aud but
one death from it occurred last winter.
(Sgned) GREEDY, Commanding.