St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-07-24

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were required to fill Il gallon measure
the labor was too eXhausting to depend
upon them to sustain life entirely
, The channel between Cape Sabine and
Littleton island did not close on nc.
count of violent gales all winter, 50
that 24O TatiOnS at the latter point
could not be reached.
All Greely's records and all instru-
ments brought by him from Fort
COnger are recovered and are on board.
From Hare island to Smiths sound
had constant and furious struggle
with ice in impossible foes. Solid bar
rlerS of ice were overcome by watch
fulness and patience. No opportunity
to advance mile escaped me, and for
several hundred miles the ships were
forced to ram their way from lead to
lead through ice varying in thickness
from three to six feet, and when RATED
much greater. The Thctis and Bear
reached Cape York June Is, after Il
passage of 81 days in Melville bay with
the two advance ships of the Dundee
whaling fleet, and continued to Cane
Sabine. Returning seven days later,
fell in with seven others of this fleet
off WOstenhOlme island and announced
Greely's rescue to them, that they
might not he delayed from their fishing
grounds, nor be tempted into the dan
gers of Smiths sound in view of the
reward of S25 900 offered by Congress.
Pot
with the Alert and Lock Garry off
Devils Thumb struggling through
heavy ice.
COmrade Coffin did admirably to get
along so far with the transport so early
in the season, before an opening had
occurred. Lieut.. Emory, with the
Bear, has supported me throughout
with great skilfulness and unfinchinS
readiness in accomplishing the great
duty of relieving Greedy. | would ask
instruction about the Lock Garry, as
the charter party held by the master
differs in several respects from mine.
The Greely party are very much i'm
critical in the eXUremo urr,,..-4 -.---...-.,
and ,for several days after. Forty
eight hours delay in reaching them
would have been fatal to all now living.
The season north is late and the
closest for years. Smiths sound was
not open when | left Cape Sabine. The
winter about Melville bay was the most
severe for 20 years. This great result
is entirely due to the unwearied energy
of yourself and the secretary of war in
fitting ont this expedition for the work
it has had the honor to accomplish.
WHAT WE HAVE BOUGHT AT THE COST OF
10 LIVES AND UNSPEAKABLE AGONIES.
Lieut.. Greely sent yesterday to Gen.
Hazrn at Washington the following
summary of the results of his disastrous
expedition =
ST. JOINS. n. F., July II. 1884.
To Gen. Hdcen, Chief Signal officer
Washington, ID. C.:-
For the first time in three centuries |
England yields the honor of the far
thest north. Lieut.. Lockwood and |
Sergt. Brainerd, May I3, reached Lock
wood island, latitude $50 "a, longitude
40 ). They saw from 2000 feet eleva-
ton no land north or northwest, but to
northeast Greenland, Cape Robert Lin
coin. latitude $50 35', longitude $50. |
Lieut.. Lockwood was turned back in
1883 bv open water on North Green
land shore, the party barely escaping
drift into Polar ocean. DIR. Pavy, in
1882, following Markham route, was
adrift one day in Polar ocean north of
Cane Joseph Henry and escaped to
land, abandoning nearly everything.
In 1882 made spring and, later, IA
summer trip into the interior of Grin
nell land, discovering Lake Hazen
some 60 by 10 miles in extent which,
fed by ice cap of North Grinnell land,
drains Ruggles river and Weyprecht
ford into Conybear bay and Archer
ford. From the summit of Mt. Arthur,
5000 feet, the contour of the land west
of the COnger mountains convinced me
that Grinnell land tends directly south
from Lieut.. Aldrich's farthest in 1876.
In 1888 Lieut.. Lockwood and Sergt.
Brainerd succeeded in crSssing Grin
nell land, and 80 miles from BeatriX
bay, 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 so 30', longitude 75o
Sc, Lieut.. Lockwood saw the northern
shore termination some 20 miles west.
the southern shore extending some 30
miles, with Cape Lockwood some 20
miles distant, apparently n separate
land from Grinnell's land. Have named
the new land Arthur land. Lient.
Lockwood followed, going and return
ing, an ice cap averaging about $50
feet perpendicular face. 1t follows
that the Grinnell land interior is ice
capped with a belt of country some 90
miles wide between the northern and
southern ice-caps. In March, 1884,
Sergt. Long, while hunting, looked
from the northwest side of Mount Carey
to Hayes sound seeing on the northern
coast three capes westward of the
furthest seen by Mares in 1876. The
sound extends some 20 miles farther
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, Obser-
vatiOns, all explorations and the re-
treat to Cape Sabine were 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.
An Associated Press dispatch says {:
It was discovered during the past win
ter by Lieut.. Greely that Cape Sabine
is part of an island, not the mainland