The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-07-31

on them toa6uHtaln~ lHa4e ntirefS s he channel
between Gaped6abine and Iittleton Island did,
not close on account Of violent gales all winter,
30 that the $40 rations lat that point could not,
be reached All Of Greely's records and IN .
6truments brought by him from Fort CONFER
are recovered and are on board From Hare
Island to Smiths Sound Il had 4; constant and
furious struggle with ice; ins impasaable foes.
and patience. No opportunity Sadyancssa
mile escaped me, and for several hundrsd niles
the ships WERE forced their Way$ from
lead TO lead Hhrough ice yafy ing III thi1tness
from thtss tas5x fest sHa Wien much
ls ssss s sWs6ty sons
days ii sIyl !, 4 u two ad-
Sc fleet, and continued Is cape Saline. Re-
turning sshyen. days ,laten W. sfall III with
land, andsnnounSed asssiys rsssus, thaE tfsy
might lpt delayed ii fishing
grounds nor Be tempted into the dangers Of
Smith sound in view Of the reward Of $25, goo
offered BY congress- E Z Returning across Mel
n, sot, Devils Thumb struggling. through
heavy ice Commander Coffin did admirably,
to get along 30 far with q transport 80 early ID
the season before an. opening had occurred
LIEUT. EMORY, with the sBeaf, has supported
duty Of relieving Greely. The Greedy party
are very much improved since their rescue,
but were critical Id the, extreme when found,
and for several days after. Forty eight hours
delay in reaching them would have beer. fatal
the coolest for years. Smiths sound WAS not
open when we left Cape Sabine. The winter
about Melville bay was the most severe for
twenty yearassI This great result is snirely due
Ito the 4nWeafying enei gy Of yourself and the
.sesreis 9 ~ me ssRediton
lsisnedl oItlaander.
~ & Hsssa 1EUJ GREEnR kEPoRTs / l'sS
General Haven, chief signal dficer, has re-
eesXsd shs s9 NH sslsg5an 81 81, ~.
in three centuries England Yields the honor
Of reaching the farthest north .-Iieut: sLock-
wood and Sergeant "a rainard, May IS, reach
ing Lockwood 4slhnd, latitude. IS min. "a Bea,
longitude a min 8 sec &: They saw, from
or northwest but to the north east Green,
Land yet extended, lost to view, in Cape Rob
ert Lincoln, latitude IS min. IS sec, and Ion
gitude SO min. Lieut. Lockwood was turned
back In 1883 Gbya OPEN water ION the north
Greenland, shore. barely escaping drifts da
following the Markham route, was adrift
one day in the Polar ocean north of.
Cape Joseph Henry, and escaped to- land,
abandoning nearly eYerythi 18S21 made,
u the tgring ana, iateE Sin, NE SUMMER trips
Lake Hsssn, some sS bys 10 miles 81 extent,
(which u fed BY the Ice cape Of north Grinne1
LAND, drains Rpgglss river and NSeyprecht ford
into Coney beare bay and Arehsr lord From
taina convinced one that Grinnd Land tends
directly south from Lieut. Alatich's farthest
point res6heds III 1876 tn 1853 Lieut. Lock-
WOOD sndsSargeant Brainsrd succeeded in
crossing Grinnen Land, and ninety miles from
Beanteanx bay, head Of Archer'sS ford; struck
rarily named by Lockwood, Greedy Ford Il u
: From the center OF the ford, in latitude 30
min so sec, lbngi tude IS min 30 sec, Lieut.
lockwood sAW ther northern shore termination,
some twenty s al sst vest sH tha sshstiore
wood some seventy miles distant psparently
separate land from Giinnsn Land Ne have
named the new land ArthuraI and, Iieuts
lockwood following, going and fetnrnfng on
the Ice, feppdz that the cape aver ahbut
st foiioys ss SSi e ssors Ice.
ssapped PIE! d belt q u Esountr aons sixty
1884, Sargent il 80 50, hls hunt,
Ing, Looked from ths; notthMess siSaof Mount
coast three capas westward sofg the furthest
seen by Mares tn 1876 s, The sound attends
some twenty. miles further west than shown
by the Hnglah char but - ,oasiBi shut in
by land which showed up across the western
lions, all explorations, and retreat to Cape.
Sabine, were accomp lished withou loss OF HES
disease, serious accident or oYsn severe fr6stsi
bites No Bcurvy WAS experienced at 9onger
and but one death from: 1T occurred Last
winter Isignedl aREEI
a 1T ss.gt75 Commanding.