The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-07-23
Tn Twenty -Four Hours More All Would
Have Been Over With Greedy and
HIS Surviving Companions.

A brief dispatch Saturday morning
announced the rescue of Lieut.. Greel Y
and five OF his companions by the relic
expedition i'll command of Capt. Schley
Following are additional particulars
from the latters report to Secretary
Chandler, and also Il telegram from
Lieut.. Greedy to Gen. HaZen:
Greedy abandoned Fort Conger Au-
gust 9Th, 1883, and reached Baird inlet
September 18th following with the en-
tire party. He abandoned all his boats
and was adrilt thirty days Oh All ice foe
in Smiths sound. His permanent camp
was established October 2lst, 1883, where
he was found. During nine months his
party had to live upon d scant allowance
Of food brought from from Fort Conger,
that was caught at Payer Harbor and
Cape Isabella 10y Sir George Mares in
1875, but found much damaged by the
lapse Of time.
When these provisions were consum-
ed the party was forced to live upon
boiled seaIskin, stripped from their seal
skin clothing, and lichens and shrimps,
caught in good weather, when they were
strong enough to make the eXertions.
As it took | 800 shrmps to fill gallon
measure, the labor was too exhaustive
10 depend upon them to sustain life
entirely. The channel between Cape
Sabine and Littleton Island did not close
on account OF violent gales all winter,
50 that the 240 rations at the latter point
could not be reached. All Of Greely's
records and all his instruments brought
by him from Fort Conger have been re-
covered and are on board. From Hare
Island to Smiths Sound | had con-
slant and furious struggle with the ice.
oOld barracks were overcome by watch
ulness aud patience. No opportunity
'oadvance mile escaped me. and for
several hundred miles the ships were
forced to run their way from lead to lead
through ice varying in thickness from
three to six feet The Thetis and Bear
reached Cape Cork June 18th, after
passing twenty-one days in Melville
Bay
The Greedy party are very much i'm
proved % since their rescue, but they were
Cllcal In the extreme when found and
iof several days after. TWenty-four
ilOars delay in reaching them would
naVe been fatal to all now living.
uen. Hazen, chief signal officer, has
'ecelyed the following telegram
ST. JOHNS, n. F., July II.
= for the first time in three centuries
England yields the honor ofthe furthest
nollnWest voyage. Lieut.. Lockwood
~ aad oefgt Brainard on May 18th reach
W. W lockwood Island in lat. SO deg. "a
Ilh.' long. "A, 5S. They saw from 1900
Gs lSst elevation no land north or northeast
Tlcenland yet extended, and finally
20 oS' 10 view in Cape Robert Lincoln, lat.
y, ~. 9 min. 35 sec. Lieut. Lockwood was
ba bStned N4 back in 1888 by open water on
,ei %e North Greenland shore, after many
pa ppals The party escaping to drift into the
f. sHar ocean. DR.. Pavey in 1882 in the
SDloWlng Markham route was adrift one
10y Ia The Polar ocean north of Cape
ddoseph Henry and escaped to land aban-
mvnaihg nearly everything. In 1882 /
aaue spring, and later, summer trips
au aug The interior Of Grinnell land, dis
rmSpYerlng Lake Hazen, about 60 by 100
iles ns IN extent, which is fed by Ice Cape
y nofth Grinnell land, drains Ruggles
nsef hwy" aud Wedprecht ford into COMFY
sus Y'at Day and Anchor ford. From the
onhlt sontlt of Mount Arthur 5000 feet) the
Oaaour OF the land west Of the Conger
aoantalns convinced me that Grinnell
sha sIS. trends directly south from Lieut..
|I.iiulices Iionices farthest in 1876. In 1883
Reu;lehant Rro; Lockwood and Sergeant
Ana "llerd succeeded in crossing Grinnell
|eano' ana ninety miles from Bear Al
Estrna, rA bay, at the head Of Anchor ford,
1ern aoh The head of ford from the west
wnos eaa-temporarily "a named by Lock
|thaV Ve q ureeiy ford. From the center of
lnin hopd OF In lat.80 min. 80 Sec, long. 78
HIM. oO sec. Lieut.. Lockwood saw that
|pilana northern shore extended some fifty
1keveS,, with Cape Lockwood about
! hi tfhn'y miles distant. 1t was apparent
Ebsn.da .ae same land they saw from Grinnell
fkrth. They have named the new land
Ekan,aa T. Lieut.. Lockwood followed the
Ekyera, and returned to Ice cape which
4 ages about $50 feet perpendicularly.