, 1884-07-18

readiness in accomplishing the great duty
Of relieving Greeley. The Greeley party
are very much improved since the rescue,
but were critical in the extreme when
found and for several days after. An
eighty-six hours delay in reaching him
would have been fatal to all. The living
season north is late and the closest for
years. Smiths Sound was not open
when I left Cape Sabine. The Winter
about Melville Bay was the most severe
for twenty years.
(Signed), ScHLEY, Commander.
General Hazen, chief signal officer,
received the following telegram:
ST. JOINS, n. f., July l7.-For the
first time in three centuries England yields
the honor of reaching the furthest point
North. Lieutenant Lockwood and. Sergeant
Brainerd, May IS, reached Lockwood
Island, latitude IS minis. "a sec, longi-
tude a IN. ) S. They saw from 200 feet
elevation no land north or northwest,
but to the northeast Greenland is extend
ed and was lost to view in Cape Robert
Lincoln, latitude IS M. So s., longitude
IS m. Lieutenant Lockwood
VAS TURNED BACK
in 1888 by open water on the north
of Greenland shore, the party barely
escaping the drift into the Polar
ocean. DIR. Pavey in fSS2 in following
the Markham route, was adrift one day in
the Polar ocean north of Cape Joseph
Henry and escaped to land, abandoning
nearly everything. In 1882 | made a
Spring, and later, a Summer trip into the
interior of Grinnell Land, discovering Lake
Hazen, some sixty by ten miles in extent,
which is fed by the ice cape of North
Grinnell Land, drains Ruggles river and
Weybrecht Fiord into Conybeare Bay and
Archer Fiord. From the summit of
Mount Arthur 5000 feet of contour land
west of Conger mountains convinced me
that Grinnell Land tends directly south
from Lieutenant Aldrich's farthest
in 1876. In 1883 Lieutenant Lock
wood and Sergeant Brainerd succeeded
in crossing Grinnell Land and ninety miles
from Beauteux Bay, the head of Archor's
Fiord, she struck the head of n ford from
the Western Sea, temporary named by
Lockwood Greeley Fiord. From the
center of the ford, in latitude So 80,
longitude 7S>, 80, Lieutenant Lockwood
saw the northern shore terminated some
twenty miles west and the southern shore
extending some fifty miles, with Cape
Lockwood some sev~enty-six miles distant,
APPARENTLY SEPARATE LAND
from Grinnell Land. | have named the
new land Arthur Land. 1t follows that
Grinnell Land interior is ice capped, with
a belt of country some sixty miles wide
between northern and southern ice capes.
In March 1884, Sergeant Long, while
hunting, looked from the northwest side
of Mount Carey to Hayes Sound, seeing
on the northern coast three capes west
ward of the furthcst seen by Mares in 1876.
The sound extends some twenty miles
further west than shown by the English
chart, but is possibly shut in by land
which showed up across the western end.
The two years station duties, observa-
tons, all explorations and the retreat to
Cape Sabine We're accomplished without
loss of life, disease, serious accident or
even severe frost bites. No scurvy was
experienced at Conger, and but one death
from it occurred last winter.
(Signed) GREELEY,
Commanding.
\ SECOND DISPATCH.
A second dispatch from Lieutenant
Gereley is as follows;
ST. JOHNS, July II.
Chief signal omeer. Washington
Brainerd, Bierderbick, Connell, Fred
erick, Long and myself, the sole survivors,
arrived to-day, having been rescued at the
point of death from starvation by the re
lief ships Thetis and Bear, June %, at
Camp Clay, northwest of Cape Sabine.
All are now in good health but weak.
Sergeant Ellison was rescued, but died
July S. Cross died last January, Chris
Hansen, Linn, Rice, Lockwood, Jewell
and Edwards in April, Ellis, Raston,
Whistler and Israel in May, Kislingbury,
Sailor, Henry. Binder, Savy, Gardiner
and Schneider in June. | abandoned
Fort Conger August 8. Frozen in a pack
off Victoria Head August %. Abandoned
steam launch September il, eleven miles
northeast of Cooked Hat Island. When
on the point of landing we were three
times driven by southwest storms into
Kanc's sea. Finally landed September
% in Baird inlet Learning by scouting
parties of the Porteus disaster, and as no
provisions had been left for us from Cape
Isabella to Sabine, we moved and
ESTABLISHED WINTER QUARTERS
at Camp Clay, half way between Sabine
and Cooked Hat. An inventory showed
that by a daily ration of four and one
third ounces of meat, seven ounces Of
bread and dog biscuits, and four ounces OF
miscellaneous the party would have ten
days full rations left for crossing Smiths
Sound to Littleton Island. Unfortunately
Smiths Sound remained open the entire
Winter, rendering the crossing impracti'
cable. Game failed, despite daily hunt.
ing, from early in February. Before the
sun returned only 800 pounds of meat
were obtained this year. Minute shrimps
sea weed, sasafras, rock lichens and sea
skin were resorted to for food witt
results as shown by the mum
Der of survivors. The last regula,