National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-19


Lieut.. Greedy, Lieut.. Lockwood, and
Sorgt. Brainard. Ho had found, in his
own experience, that most alleged dis
coveries would not stand the test Of
scrutiny and measurement, and in high
latitudes estimates Of distances by sight
are very deceptive. He thinks there is
open water TO the far north, that is, north
of $50 latitude, but has nothing to guide
his Judgment as TO how the land trends
on either side.
1t may bo possible that the land of
Greenland trends away to the eastward
about tho circle of $50 or higher, SO that
Franz Joseph's land may be part of the
same continent.
THE relief was we'll conducted" he
said. They had to call upon seamen 10 do
the rescue work after all. II Is a wonder
full thing that Greedy and his men were
rescued, for l had no idea from the in
structious given Greedy that If they were
obeyed single man would be alive as
late as the date when Capt Schley found
them" He had expressed this opinion
before the board Of officers which pre-
pared tho plan for tho relief expedition.
To leave any established point in that
region as late as September in any year is
suicidal, but Lieut.. Greedy probably
obeyed orders TO the letter, and the re-
sponsibility for the deaths that took place
from starvation must be laid at the door
of whoever gave such an order. At that
time Of the year winter has already sot
in at that high latitude tho nights are
dark and the days very brief; the new
ice has formed, and that is tougher and
more unyielding than old ice, and any
movement then must be msdo at the
pleasure of the terrible gales that prevail
and the varying currents.
| The reporter remembered the terrible
journey Of 1866 days through the long
night of winter which Capt Tyson mad Q
with his party of nineteen souls, when
they too were reduced to boiling we'll
picked bones for soup, and chewing strips
Of sealskiD cut from clothing or boots,
and asked him what the feeling of starva-
walton Is like. Good God |" said he.
"Don't ask me that. All that / can say
is, that its the most terrible thing in the
world. Ny party starved. you might say,
for the whole time after we parted from
the Polaris until wo were rescued by the
Tigress. Some little provisions were on
the foe with US, and that, at one-quarter
rations, lasted only about two months.
After that, and even before, II was des-
perate hunger all the time. When Ebier-
bing, Eskimo Joe," killed the bear, not
q soul of my party had had q mouthful Of
food for q week."
The reporter asked what the peculiari-
ties Of starvation are; what the symptoms
are.
"It's just being hungry, and you keep
know how to describe any of tho symp-
toms, except that the thirst Is SO intense.
and even water from the melted ice will
not relieve it, think the terrible thirst
creates the greatest suffering. But God
forbid me thinking of that time can't
do II" and here he started to his feet and
strobe excitedly to and fro across the wide
room. "Its too terrible, too terrible. The
thought of it drives me almost crazy now.
l tell you, starvation makes men &c
insane. / saw my men watching and
haunting me, and know they tried tc
kill e,but kept O close watch. and we
were oil saved. Iknow that If had been
killed that my body would have been
eaten. 1 know that If any one Of the
party had died while ON the ice that the
body would have been eaten." He was
still striding nervously across the floor,
but stopped now and said: II won't talk
of this any more. can't do 1t. Itmskes
me almost crazy now, even to think Of It.
1t was too terrible, too terrible"
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H.. Mnas 70 .u1 aes1N s,, n your reooheo
sione y. io'ear'ne'' was asAeus
by the news received the Greedy part,
penetrated the highest northern poin'
ever reacned, peing e3 ~, which OK
hibits the fact that during the past hun
dred years only II 40 has been ATTAINED
since the year i713. This voyage o.
yrs opna noW nFSa 1ss far
navigation was practical toward th,
northern pole.
oase-Nwere fitted M ont for for 1s the axneSit;or ned &
uuder the Command of Lord Mnloravo
and in selecting the crew a nosit;ve orde,
was issued that no bows sbould be- re
ceiyed on board. hut n vonny America
bow. Nicholas Biddle, whose desire becams
irresistible. entered on board the Carcase
before the mast. and was received. Tbey
went &c 39'. The revoiution yave ney
turn to his purspits and i'm the latter and
of I776 Can't. Biddle was annointed to IN,
command of the RandoInb a frioate n,
thirty-two guns which blew mn Surino
an engagement with the Rritiab sbir
Yarmouth. and he therebv Iost his life i
A iournalist here who has had some
experience in the Arctic was asked
yesterday as to his views of the Greely
expedition and the rescue. He said, in
effect, that he was agreeably surprised at
the rescue Of any Of the party, but that
in his opinion, the plan OF the relief ex-
pedition was wise and judicious, as the
result proved. The only way that such
an undertaking can be successfully car
ried out is to have the whole matter
under military control, as the history
Of disasters in the Arctic had a.
most invariably shown the lack
of it. He supposed the pres
ence OF the seam of coal determined
the selection of Lady Franklin bay as the
station Of Maj Greedy and his party, but
the selection of the west side of X erned y