Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-07-25
Nesoyer,d From Arctis Periiia.

discovered and rescued by Lieutenant
Stiiles aiia hts party 6f tescuers, who
sailed for Tie ii0rth last May ON the
ftiission they accomplished: Gteely's
party Stated btit TO iiiake explorations
In the north III tire sprihg 6f 1881; and
1t arpeats that they spent the winters
III 'Si-'S2, and 'SS and until the fall of
'SS in higher latitude than atis explor-
ing PATTY 6tet ala befdfe: And this WAS
Accomplished without the loss III Hfe.
But when the party attempted to make
their way sSdth thet MET with bad
luck, and ~htts they SApected to 6nd
protisi5iis stored fof them of Cape Sa-
bins; Iii Sniith's Sound, there was no
ft1od except q small lot left BY an Eng
iisfi exploring party fiji 1878, eight years
before, But tie party .catiped there,
ana tfioiiyh seventeen Of the twenty
five e$pl0tefs perished, the remaiftder
Of the party managed to live, though
their sufferings were very great.
A cdtaensed fepott bf their suffer
iiigs; feE0tSrS, ETC., Is given below;
boiled down from official reports:
The survivors of the Gfeely party
numbered seyen instesd u eight as pre-
siotisiy reported; sra theft names are:
Idettetaht A. W: Greedy, Sergeant
David F. Bfdinafd; Sergeant Julius
Ffedefiehs; Sergeant Francis Long;
Sergeant William A. Ellison, Hospital
Steward Henry BierderbStk; Private
Morris Connell. They %efe found by
the relief ships Thetls and Bear, Ave
miles Oh Cape sSbfne IN sfnith's Sound:
Sergeant Eilis %as vefS badiy ffost Bit
ten and died at GOdhaven, July 8, after
undergoing surgical operation.
The relief ships Thetis and Bear;
with the survivors are now at st. John.
New Foundiand, and wifi feniain there
five or six days. Seventeen out Of
the twenty-fiv persons composing the
expedition perished from starvation at
tUfrt where the remainder OF the
crew We're found. One was drowned
while seafing to procure food. Twelve
bodies of the dead were rescued and are
now ON board the Thetis and Bear. One
EsquimauX, Tourve3ft; %as buried at
Disco, in accordaneE With the desire Of
the inspector Of western Gfeenland.
Lieutenant Greedy abandoned Fort
Congor August 8, 1888, and reached
Baird inlet September % following witlr
his entire party well. He aban-
dOned all his boats and was adrift
thirty days on an ice foe in Smiths
sound. His permanent camp was es-
y. blished October u, 1888, at the point
NJ re he was found. -. ~.
~ ing nine months his party had to
ia m scant allowance of food
,,ronaht> rom Fort Conger that was
n,acad ~ :, 'ayor Harbor and Cape lisa,
ha,,a H.. "a, George Mares in 1875.
D.. . 3 So 81 much damaged by the
I,nse Of t;ma. an that placed by Beebe
at Cono S,h;re in 1882, and a small
~ o"pe S~o1 ~ the wreck Of the
amount saved rom ded by Heuten.
Porteuse in 1888 or Ian. - Co,,va,, ON ~
ants darlington and "."e ~. ".
beach near where GrecI P "'
found.
When these provisions \, va ,;,.o ~ -
sumed the party was forced to-. ,ha;,
on boiled seal skin stripped from . 49,
sealskin clothing and lichens :,
shrimps caught in good weather, wb>
they were strong enough to make TIM
exertion, as it took 1 800 slirimps to fill
a gallon measure the labor was too ex-.
hausting to depend upon them to sus-
tain life entirely.
The channel between Cape Sabine
and Littletoh's Island did not close on
account of violent gales all winter, so
that 24O ratiohs at the latter point could
not bt reached.
All Greely's records and all the in.
str,imehts brought by him from Fort
COnger are recovered and are on board.
Gen. Hazen, chief signnl officer, re-
ceived the following telegram from
Lieut.. Greedy, upon the latter arriving
with his rescuers ut st. Johns, New
FOundland: a,e g.
For the first time In three centuries,
England yields the honor Of reaching
the point furtherest north. Lieutenant
Lockwood and Sergeant Brainerd, May
18th reached Lockwood Island; la1itude
81 minutes and "a seconds: ossgitude,
A minutes and s seconds. They saw
from 1000 foot elevation on hand. The
northwest cut to northeast Greenland,
yet extended, and was last TO view in
Cape Robert Lincoln latitude, 81 min
utes and s5 seconds: longitude, -sS min
tites. sA eiiI "a e gsca
Lieutenant Lockwood. was turned
back in 1853 open by water on the north
Greenland shore aud the party bare.
" escaped drifting into the Polar ocean.
DR.. Pavy In 1881 following the Mark.
hams route was drifted ofie day In the
Polar ocean north Of Cape Joseph Hen
ry, and escaped to land abandoning
nearly everything. @
In 1ss2, I made spring and later sum-
mer trip into the interior of Gtinnell
Land, discovering Lake fiazen, some
sixty by ten miles i'm exteut, which is
fed by the Ice cape of North Grinnell
Land, drains Ruggles river and Wey-
precht ford into Cony Bear Bay and
Archer ford.
From the summit of Mount Arth1r.
5000 feet in height. The contour Of
the land west of the Conger mountain
cohvinces me that Gfinnell Land tends
directly south form Lieut.. Aldrich's
fartherest i'm 1879.
In 1888 Lieut. Lockwood and Sergeant
Brainerd succeeded in crossing Grinnell
Land, and ninety miles from Beautihg
bay at the head Of Archer's ford struck
the head of ford from the Western
sea temporarily named by Lockwood
Greely ford, from the center Of the
ford, in latitude 50 minutes and 30 sec.
onds. and longitude Is minutes and 80