Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-18

pounds of English meat at Cape Isabella.
During the trip Ellison froze solid both hands
and feet and lost them all, surviving how
ever, through our terrible winter and spring
until July 8. The survivors owe their lives
to the indomitable energy of Captain Schley
and Lieutenant Emory, who, preceded by
three and accompanied by FIVE whalers,
forced their vessels from Upper
Navik through Melville Bay into the north
water at Cape York with the foremost
whalers They gained yard whenever pos
sib1e and always held it. Smiths Sound was
crossed and the party rescued during one of
the most violent gales have ever known.
The boats were handled only at immediate
risk of swapping Four of US were then
able to walk and could not have survived
exceeding twenty-four hours. Every care
and attention was given US. have saved
and will bring back copies of meteorological,
tidal, astronomical, magnetic pendulum and
other observations. Also pendulum, Yale
and Standard thermometers. Forty eight
Photographic negatives, collection of
plants and Photographic prints, Esquimaux
relics and other things were necessarily
abandoned. The Thetis remains here five
days probably. [Signedl
GREELY, Commanding.
Lieutenant Greelys second dispatch is as
follows:
ST. JOHNS, N. F., July II.
To the Chief Signal Office, Washington:
For the first time in three centuries Eng
land yields the honors of the farthest north.
Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant Brainird
on May 18th reached Lockwood Island in
latitude 1924, longitude 40.45. They saw
from two Thousand feet elevation no land
north or northwest, but to northeast Green
land yet extended was lost to view on Cape
Robert Lincoln, latitude SO. 35, longitude 80.
Lieutenant Lockwood was turned back in 1888
by open water on the north Greenland shore,
the party barely escaping drifting into the
Polar Ocean. DR.. Pavy, in 1882, following
Markham's route was adrift one day on the
Polar Ocean north of Cape Joseph Henry
and escaped to land, abandoning nearly
everything In 1882 made spring and
later summer trip in the interior of Grin
nell land, discovering Lake Hazen, sixty to
one hundred miles in extent, which is fed by
ice from the Cape of North Grinnell Land and
is drained by Ruggles river and Weyprecht
ford into Conybar bay and Archers ford.
From the summit of Mount Arthur, five
thousand feet, the contour of land west of
Conger mountains convinced me that Grin
mel Land tends directly south from Lieuten-
ant Aldrich's farthest observation in '76 In
S3 Lieutenant Lockwood and Sergeant
Brainard succeeded in crossing Grinnen Land
and ninety miles from Beautux Bay, the head
of Archer's ford, struck the head of ford
from the western sea temporarily named
by Lieutenant Lockwood Greedy ford. From
the center of the ford in latitude 80. 80, lon
gitude IS. 80, Lieutenant Lockwood saw the
northern shore twenty miles west and the
southern shore extending some miles, with
Cape Lockwood some seventy miles distant,
apparently a separate land from Grinnen
Land.
Have named the new land Arthur Land.
Lieutenant Lockwood followed, going and
returning found an ice cape averaging about
one hundred and fifty feet perpendicular
face 1t follows that Grinnel1 Land interior
is ice-capped with a belt of country some sixty
miles wide between the northern and south
ern ice capes. In March, 'S4, Sergeant Long
while hunting looked from the northeast side
of Mount Carey into Hayes Sound, seeing Oh
the northern coast three capes westward of
the farthest seen by Mares in '76. The sound
extends some twenty miles farther west than
shown by the English chart, but is possibly
shut in by land which showed up across its
western end. The two year station duties,
observations, all the explorations and the re-
treat to Cape Sabine were accomplished with
even severe frost bite. No scurvy was expe-
rienced at Conger and but one death from it
occurred last winter.
Signed GREELY, commanding
General Hazen this afternoon sent the fol-
lowing despatch to Lieutenant Greedy:
Our hearts are overlooking with. gladness and
those who without fault of yours are dead. Your
family well and in San Diego
Admiral Nichols also wired Commander
Sohley the heartiest congratulations to him
self, officers and men and directed him to use
his discretion about the care and transporta-
ton of the bodies.
The news of the rescue of the survivors of
department this afternoon and created pro-
found sensation. 1t was the chief topic of
conversation at the War and Navy depart
ments this afternoon. The sentiment was
universally one of gladness at the rescue of
the seven men, mingled with sadness for the
loss of the remaining eighteen of the party.
Many well informed officials had looked for
ward with dread to report that all would be
found dead and some had felt apprehension
even about the safety of Captain Schley and
the rescuing party Both army and naval Of
fcials feel highly gratifed at the success of
Captain Schley's expedition.
Now that Lieutenant Greedy has been
found at Cape Sabine there is a disposition
shown by some to again criticise the efforts of
Lieutenant Darlington, who sailed with the
Inflated Proteus from st. Johns last June to
find and provision Greedy and his party.
General Hazen and Commodore Walker are
inclined to think that what has been charged
as the greatest error of the Proteus expedi-
ton, the failure to leave provisions at Little
ton Island, would have made no difference in
the sad result, as Greedy and his men were
unable to reach that point General
Hazen thinks Darlington should have left
more of the provisions saved from the
Proteus at Cape Sabine Captain Davis, who
was member of the. Proteus board, thinks
the great mistake of the expedition was in
not landing stores at Cape Sabine instead of
trying to take them further north Had this
been done the Greedy party might all
have been saved, but of course
Darlington had no orders to land stores there
and could not do it.