Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
POLAR LIFE.
Two Trips to Cape Beechy-A Big Wolf killcd
Beautiful Arctic Phenomena The SUNS
Farewell-The Stars at Midday Cold

Two Trips 10 Cape Beechy-A Big MOlt hlllc0
Beautiful Arctic Phenomena The SUNS
Farcwell-tThe Stars at Mldday-Cold
Weather.
While the first exploring party sent
out by Lieut.. Greedy was on the way
to Lincoln bay, he was encouraged by
the open water in Halls basin to send
boat party, under Scrgt. Brainard,
to Cape Bcechy. The story that fol-
lows of their trip, and of camp life in
the polar regions, is taken from Scrgl.
Rice diary:
This expedition to Cape Bccchy en-
countcred the greatest difficulties and
experienced remarkable escapes from
beng crushed between the ever NOV
ing and changing ice-lloes that threat
encd to close in on the party. When
Mount Beaufort, II few miles short of
our destination, was reached, it was
found impossible to return by water
because of the crOwding ice. Consc-
quently the boat in which the party
had come was hauled upon the lee
foot, where it remained until August
of next year, and so the return to the
station was made by land. The time
in which the round trip was made was
from Aug. 81 TO Sept. 3, inclusive. On
Sept. lj party met pack of nine
teen wolves, but the animals. although
apparently hungry, would not come
within rifle shot. BY Sept. 20 ii was
concluded that, as the temperature
was but 10 degrees below zero, the
party was in the midst of an Indian
summer The increasing cold, how
ever, soon drove the members Of the
party indoors, although the outdoor
work was still prosecuted vigorously.
The working party were banking the
house and piling and covering up the
provisions and cOmmissary stores.
The scientific corps were hourly OBJ
serving barOmctGrs, thermometers, and
tide gauge; Watching the vagarics of
the magnet, and making photographs
BY Sept. %, wolves had located them
selves near the station, their prey being
musk oxen. A wolf weighing eighty
one pounds, and having ''long white
fur, sparscly intcrminglcd on the back
with black hair" was shot almost
from the door of the station, where it
had doubtless been attracted by the
pangs of hunger. The animal meas
urcd five feet nine inches from nose to
tip of tail, and stood thrty-thrcc inches
high. 1--WE wcrc.' writes Scrgt. Rice,
"struck with the great resemblance TO
our dogs, and could readily accept the
theory that the ESquimaux dog is only
Il dOmcsticatcd wolf. The tracks of
both are similar, and the only differ
cncc that we could detect was in size. y
On Sept a Lieut.. Lockwood, with
-four men, went with provisions to de-
partmcnt "B, near Cape Bccchy, and
three days later returned with Il see
tion of large and wcll-prescrycd
piece Of driftwood, thirty feet long and
ten inches in diameter, that had been
found in st. Patrick's bay. The Fab
rcnheit scale showed the following
thcrmomctric scale for September:
Mean temperature, 1919; maximum 30,
and minimum 1914. October opened
with cloudy, drcary weather, and ON
the second day of the month the thcr-
nbange in tomnornturc ,f 90 Lrgrrrs
from . degrees above to 1873 below.
On Oct "a beautiful halo accompa-
MED the sun all day. and in the even.
XIII 'nhrnnmnn, wrrc of frrnmcni or.
rnrrcnrr Jurinr thc autumn u Durinr
Ills lima ,Ir tnmnnrnturn nutsiLr wnS
9i and u Jrrrcrs md Jnrin~ Orrnbrr
cnrsiJrr,hIn snnw foil thou~h his did
nnl nr,ynnt small r,r,ir. frnm hrinr
nm the hunt ntnImnst All thc timc io Cane
RairL and tbc Bcllnws for musk.ux
mnot Mnupt Ovitus was also assembled.
tLnmrh this w,s ,ttrndnd with much
JiHirnI,y ns II riscs ,bnvr thr snow
vallcvs anJ cjin's . GOO feet There
wns 4 ,yrilc. Snrot Rico something
,wfnI in thr imnrrssivc scene nf desc.
iation snrcod ornund No sign of an.
imaI mr. yrrctablc life hare. dcsolntc
nnJ I chootic. "a worlJ unfinished Inv thc
hnnJ of its creator. and such siicnccl
I am surc that ordinary ouict would
boyc becn nm unroar comnarcd 70 that
which surrounded MS Eugene Arnm
shonld hnvc hccn tronsnorfcd NV thc
nnot to snch onI,cr IN Give full ninv to
his studv nf n rmiltv conscience !" All
his whiIo tbc sun bod bccn Gradual
iv curtailinr its licbt and on Oct. If
i diSannonrrd for ISG dnvs and in de.
scrihinG this change thc diary rcods
"Wc ali mshcd oHt ot noon and surc
onourh odd Sol, onlv showed nort of
bis Jisr for n fcw mnmcnts snrinkling
the m conJ snow with silver and crvs,
t"Is taL and W y, on ,,nt Ia1iIy hack in n
honn,ifnl @ M glow Of warm ROSY coIors
II t"r,' wos "ro . 7nf tbo fow gInrioms nicturcs
romchsofcd " tbn Arctic snionrpcr hnt
onc which carried with Il foo many
n ohadows ns wn thourht of tbo niobt nj
tho montbs % wboncvSn tbr rccrea6t sun
i'arna Imo n,ou nmJ !, nro,, with onr nhson,
,u",u1 s,;onS, "'I -, bon," frhon " sucnaoJoJ a
antt ,.E"u, n,;Str St u Uoari,, tm;i;rht mora;nc
son' so, hnSrS 'nS T" intar ;ntn IarlmosS % % M
n,"h au" law Ion ,bo % tw;linht donroasoJ until
o"un i I"I n .u. twSn' ,'n;Sson Ir anotrr"s Conoi
la, and Alpha Geminorum twinklet
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