The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-30

the north, and explored the coast of Greenland. Two years later Hall set sail with the ill-fated Polaris expedition.\ He left San Francisco July }, and sent home dispatches dated October 70. From tiiaf time nothing was heard of the Pciaris until April %, 1873. when the steamer Tigress struck an ice foe in 5 deg. s second. On this was . portion of the
 Polaris crew, consisting of Capt. Tyson and eighteen men, Commander Hall had died quite suddenly, November s, 1871, after reaching as far as B. degrees I6 seconds north. The ice around the
 Polaris had broken up October i5, 1872, and those who were on the foe had drifted scuihward from that time until April 70, making journey of between l, 500 and 1000 miles under these most remarkable circumstances. Capt. Bud ington and the others who were ieft on the Polaris wintered in the north, made boats out of parts of the vessel, and jour- neyed ,o the southward in the spring. They were picked up June 5. and taken to Dundee, Scotland.
 The most notable expedition of IS7,
 vas the cruise of The Austrian ship Tegethof. IL made the discovery of Franz Josef Land, and in April, 1873, reached sr deg. 57 sec, and sailed into sea almost free from ice. Land was found which appeared to reach beyond the Sgd parallel. This land. the highest norshesly point known, they called Peter mans land. During this the crew were driven on an island above the Sosh paral- Tel, where they remained r75 days, in
 weather so cold that the mercury ye- rlained frozen for weeks
 The Alert and Discovery, under Sir George Mares, sailed from Europe in
 1875. The Aler;, after many difficulties,
 finally reached ST degrees and q min utes, the highest point ever gained by vessel. A sledge expedition, under Capt. Markham, pushed on ,e & degrees, er minutes and 26 seconds, thus distancing all previous attempts. During the winter of I4. days the thermometer was down as low as s degrees af times.
 The Pandora, afterwards known as the Jeanuette, was fitted out in 1874 by Lady Franklin, James Gordon Bennett and Capt. Allen Young to search King Williams land for relics of Sir John Franklin. It penetrated Peel sound, and despite large helds of pack ice, explored those waters 10 greater distance than they had ever before been explored.
 Lady Franklin died in 1875, leaving a name ever 10 be remembered in the an- nals of brave women. For years she had hoped when all others despaired, and had shown heroism and endurance which shall endure so long as the En- giish tongue shall live. Shortly before her death, she caused a monument to be erected, bearing ;he name of her hus- band. and the words
 Erected by his widow, who, after long waiting and sending many in search of him, herself departed 10 ind him in the realms of lie"
 The story of the second Jeanette ex- petition has been revived so recently by :he return Of ihe remains of those who perished n ]: :ha. brief mention of it is sufficient. ]. was fitted out by the United States government and lanes Gordon Bennett, and sailed from San Francisco in July, 1879. Two months later the vessel entered an ice pack, rom which she never escaped. She vent down June 5 1881, in the vicinity of lati- tude = deg. IS min, longitude I53 deg. 5 min. east The survivors retreated on the ice to the southward, and embarked in boats, two of which reached the delta of the Lena. Noros and Enderman of Lieut.. De Long's party, reached St Petersburg, but the remaining, thirteen in number, perished. Engineer Melville's party was saved. The cruise of the Cor. win and the Rodgers, in search of the Jeanette, are also events SO recent as to be well remembered.
 One of the most remarkable achieve ments in Arctic annals was accomplished by the Swedish steamer Vega, under Baron Nordensklold, in the summer of 1879. The Vega accomplished the pas sage from the western coast of Europe to the eastern coas: of Asia around the | head of the continent. In other words it | made the northeast passage by sea from the North Atlantic east to the North | Pacific ocean. At the entrance to Beh- ! rings strait ice was encountered, and the !! Vega was detained from September until l July, 3II days, much of the time in al- | most total darkness. July i8 the ice moved, and on the following day, the ves- sel was in the middle of Behring's strait, ! and the northeast passage was accom- ptished. The journey home to Sweden l was made by the way of Japan, Ceylon 1 and through the Suez canal
 Such are some of the more notable of the expeditions of the north, the stories | of which are recalled by the finding of Greedy and the few cf his men on the ! cold and pitiless shore to the north of Bafhn's bay.