The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-08-06

TEE news brought by the CLr.s Sprs.lsl,.
on Friday last, overshadows any other in
Its grand international Importance. The
whole civilized world may rejoice at the
receipt of information Of the rescue Of the
gallant Lieut.. Greely, though the rejoicing
may be damped by the knowledge that
only iveof the band of twenty SIX explorers
survived to tell their tale.
The party was picked up by the rescue
ships THU and Ber accompanied by some
OF the most advanced ships of the Dundee
whaling feet They were near Cape Sa
bIne, which Is the western point Of entrance
% Smiths Sound IN latitude rs 45' v
Their previous head quarters however had
been far away north of Cape Sabine at
Fort Congsr on Grnnell Land. This p,,st
was abandoned on August 9Th. 1883. and
the whole party reached Baird Inlet on
the 9th Sept, vigorous IN health but
With the loss of all their boats. the coca
SION later on Of much suffering. On Oct.
list, Greedy formed his permanent camp
near the point where he was found.
During nine months the party had to live
IN what provisions could be- saved and
transported from Fort Conger. heIped ont
! y some food cached at Cape Isabella bv
Capt. Mares in 1875, which was consider
ably damaged A small deposit of their
OWL made at Cape Sabine. in Iss2. and a
seanty amount saved from the wreck Of the
Profs'ts, now constituted their whole stock.
The loss Of their boats now told fatally.
had they their large whale boats or their
steam launch they might have reached
some depots OF provisions known 10 exist
on the eastern or Greenland side Of Smith
Sound or might have dispatched a partv
as far as Uppernavik- but not only were
their boats lost but their Eskimo sesI-hrn-
ter with his kyak were DESTROYED bv an
Ice nip and thus the sole chance Of seal
meat disappeared
Up to January Of thiseyear the whole
party was intact, having spent two winters
IN lAborlous scientific labors. and the opau |
seasons IN still more laboTious TRAVELLING |
and exploring.
During the month Of April and thence |
onward the explorers failed in rapid sue
cesElon- Lieutenant lockwood. who had |
reached the fzrthest North and East vet /
accomplished died IN May his travelling |
comrade Sergeant Brainard survives
Having thus hastily sketched the final
proceedings of the party. let Us nov. see
what Greedy and his brave comrades have /
done as discoverers The full yaIue of /
their scientific work cannot Of course. be 1
estimated until the journals observations.
etc, are compared and tsbulated
The VARIOUS travelling parties aseer-
aimed GriEnel Land to be an island. and 4
discovered a great lake sixty miles bv ten.
winch they named Hazen- after the Chief
u the Signal department in Washington
| hey reached some twelve to fifteen miles
,arther North than any of Ksne's parties
They eoasted the northern shore Of Green
and some ten degrees of Longitude farther
last. and traced the Northern shore Of
Greenland far away west till they saw it
rending away soufhward-
The faTthest North S3o IS was reached
y Lieut. lockwood. according to one ar
cunt In long IS : W. which mus h.
lear l5O mills east Of Capt. Markham-s
arthest north
Markham started due north. from Care
Joseph Henry, the northernmost point Of
JrlnneH Land, and saw nothing but an
zent ice Lieut.. Lockwood on the other
land, made his extreme North as we said
ar to the East from the coast Of Green
and and was brought up by open water.
Seventeen Of the twenty FIVE persons
'erished OF starvation, and Of the remain
ne eight two died after the rescue. Ieav-
ng SIX Survivors, only, and these state that
hey could not have existed sixty hours
o9nSer had not the reseuing party found
hem.
The scientific value of the labors Of these
levoted men VIII doubtless be very con
lderable- but they have been purchased
L terrible price.