The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-18

| through heavy ice. Commando
Coffin did admirably to get along g!
far with the transport so early il
the season, before an opening hat
occurred.
Lieut.. Emery, with the Bear, has
supported me throughout with grea
skillfulness, and unflinch1ng read
ness in accomplishing the great
duty of relieving Greeley. The
Greeley party are very much i'm
proved since their rescue, ont were
critical in the extreme when found
and for several days after. Sixty.
eight hours delay in reaching them
would have been fatal to all now
living. The season north is late
and the closest for years. Smith
Sound was not open when I Lett
Cape Sabin. The winter about
Melville Bay was the most severe
for twenty years. This great re-
suit is entirely due to the unwearied
energy of yourself and the Secretary
of War in fitting out this expedition
for the work il has had the honor
to accomplish.
(Signed) w. S. sCHLEY,
Commander.
Washington. II For the first
time in three centuries, England
vie DIS the houor3 Of farthest north,
Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant
Brainsrd, on May 18Th, reached
Lockwo d Island, latitude $50 "a,
longitude 40 05'.
They ssw from 1900 feet eleva-
ton no land north or northwest, but
to the northeast G:eenland yet ex~
tended, lost to view in Cape Robert
Lincoln, latitude So m. 50 s., longs
tude IS m. Lieutenant Lockw0 sod
was turned back in 1888 by open
water on the north of Greenland
shore, and the party barely escaped
drifting into the Polar Ocean. Dr..
Pavey, in 1882, in following the
Markham route, was rift one day
In the Polar Ocean north Of Cape
j oseph Henry, and escaped to land
abandoning nearly everything. In
1882 he made spring and late sum :.
mer trips into the interior Of Grin
mel Land, discovering Lake Hazen
some sixty by ten miles in extent,
which was fed by Ice Cape of North
Grinnell Land; urainss Ruggles river
and Weyprecht Fiord into Cony~
oeare Bay and Anchor Fiord. From
the summit of Mount Arthur, 5000
'eet, the CONTOUR of the land west of
Q niger Mountains convinced him
thst Grinnell Land stends directly
south from Lieutenant Aldrlch's
-arthest in 1876 In 1888 Lieuten-
mt lockwood and Sergeant Brain
lrd succeeded In crossing Grinnell
Land, and ninety miles from Bear
lteux By, head of Auchor
fiord, struck the head of a ford
rom the western sea, tenn oorsriIy
FAMED by Lockwood "Greely |
siord From the center of the
lord, latitude so min. 80 sec., longi, |
ude 70 min. so sec.. Lieutenant
lockwood saw that the northern |
bore terminated some twenty miles
vest and the southern shore extend |
ID some fifty miles, with Cape
lockwood some seventy miles dis
ant. Apparently it is separate
and from Grinnell land. They
AIMED the new land Arthur Land.
lieutenant LOCKWOOD folio wed the
ame route and returned Ice Cape,
Vhich averaged about $50 feet Of a
perpendicular face. 1t follows that
land interior is ice capped
nth a belt of C, untry some sixty
lIles wide between the northern
nd southern ice capes.
In March. 1884, Sergeant Long,
7hile hunting, looked from the
orthwest side of Mount Corey JoI
Layes sound, seeing on the northert L
past three capes westward of the
arthess seen by Mares in 1876
he sound extends twenty
lilies further west than shown by
ne English chart, but ia possibly
nut in by land which showed up
cross the western end. The two +,
ears station duties, observations,
Il explorations aud the retreat. toll
ape Sabine were accomplished
Tithout loss OF life, disease, serious !
ccident or even serious frost bites.
10 scurvey was experienced ai
oDger and but one death occurred }
Ist winter. (Signed.)
GREEDY,
Commanding.
A second dispatch from Greedy is [
3 follows: II
ST. JOHNS, II. /
'hief Signal Office, Washington:
Brainerd, Bierderbeck, Cornell,
'redericks, Long and myself, the
Die survivors, arrived to-day.
LAYING been rescued at-the point OF
cath from starvation by the
slief ships Thetis and Bear,
une 22d, at Camp Clay.
orthwest OF Cape Sabin. AM!
re now in good health, but weak.
esrgeant Ellison, rescued, died July
th, Cross died last Saturday, Chris,
Rice, Lockwood, Jewell s
nd Edwards in April, Ellis, Yves Is
m, Whistler and Israel in May, II
lislsngbury, SAILOR, Henry, Binder II
'avey Gardiner and Schneider in
une. We abandoned Fort Conger Is
august 9th, and were frozen in a l.
'ack off Victoria Head August 20 th Il 8
bandoned the steam launch Seq
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