The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-19
SIX MEN LAY STARVING

SIX MEN LAY STARVING
and unable to help themselves Pointing
10 one, they said he was dying, but lie
rallied and Is doing well now We cut
hole in the canvass TO ave Us room and
commenced to feed them, serving them
al! round gradually, and not letting them
have as much as they wanted. The launch
was sent of 10 the Bear, which
wa, coming. The Thetls was also
close By fire was made, the suffer-
ers were attended to by DR.. Ames and
given plenty OF warm milk. Some Of
them were soon able TO stand and staggcr
about. Stretlhcrs had been brought and
the men were carried to the boat Two
men only were strong enough to be led
down by men on each side OF them to the
boats, They were taken off, some on
board each ship.
1t was near midnight, the sun shining
and wind blowing gale, fortunately off
shore, which kept the ice from coming on
u. We proceeded with good crew to
upcarth the dead bodies and wrap them
in blankets, part were taken to each
ship. Ten were buried on ridge side
by side, 300 yards from the camp,
with Il very high mountain just
back. Two others were lying 4 little dis
lance below the camp, the Survivors not
having strength enough to bury them
with the rest, making twelve bodies taken
gu board the ships. Four Others were
buried on the ice from the winter house,
but the ice had broken and taken them
with it.
Edwards, an EsquimauX, was drowned
while hunting. Total deaths since the
party reached Cape Sabine last fall,
eighteen. j. Ellison, who was trying to
get the $50 rations left by the Beebe in
1882, cot badly iroStbitten. During the
winter both his feet dropped off at the
ankles and his fingers dried up hard lie
also lost the top OF his nose. For few
days he got along finely, but in little
while he took another change, wontWrong
in the head, and finally went to his long
home on the sth Of June.
The researches of the expedition were
every way successful. Latitude 1921
was reached and a second party crossed
the Western Ocean. The party which
went north travelled East to the 24th de.
gree Of longitude.
Lieutenant Greedy assured the United
Press correspondent that he had clear
proof that an open Polar Sea existed, one
of his party drifting into it, but was
blown back. lie says he agrees in this
with Nordenskiold.
valley running from near Lady Frank
lin Bay to the Western Ocean about sixty
miles wide was discovered. 1t is bounded
North and South by continuous glaciers
and has no apparent breaks. In the valley
vegetation was abundant ard the climate
much milder than usual. This he states
is the Eden of the North.
Greedy says that if 500 pounds OF meat
had been left by Darlington, his party
would have been saved. Littleton Island
could not be reached in winter, the Sound,
twenty-five miles wide, being open, and
in spring the party were too weak to go.
The survivors are very weak, but recov-
cring rapidly. Greedy is extremely weak.
His expedition, he says, would have been
the most successful on record if food
had been left on Cape Sabine, where it
should have been.
The ships had been roughly used, as
supcrhuman eXertions were made to eff
feet Il rescue. The party left Fort Conger
August 9th in q steam launch, three
boats and dingey. After their thirty
days float on the ice foe they decided to
abandon the launch and two boats US too
heavy to carry
The winter quarters consisted of hut
Of stone, covered by one boat and SAIL
At Lady Franklin Bay plenty of food
had been left, bat as 1t was too heavy to
carry and they expected to find plenty at
Cape Sabine, it was left behind. They
found only two barrels of bread left in
the cache made by the Proteus' crew after
her loss, a damaged cache left by tho
British and few ratlons left by the relief
expedition OF 1882
In the Autumn u forlorn hope started
to reach some dried meat cached by
Mares, but Ellison's feet and hands were
frozen, and they were forced to abandon
tho meat and return. In the spring Il tent
was erected but the party were too weak
10 fasten It strongly. In April Rice and
Fredericks volunteered to fluid the aban1
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