The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-21
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NEW YORK, August 15.-Thifd
} Officer Kelly, of the steamer Bear
this morning, said the report of the
eating of Lieut.. Kislingburg and Pri.
vate Henry were true, as the survi
vors, when brought on board, were all
but delirious, and admitted they had
eaten dead bodies to preserve theil
own lives. The cook of the Bear said
all the survivors stated they had 20
eat the flesh of the dead as all their
food, except little leather, or seal
skin, had given out. All the men on
board the bear knew the bodies had
been eaten, but were told not to speak
about it when they got into port.
ARCTIC EXPLORER INTERVIEWED.
LONDON, August 10. : The Pail
Mall Gazette has published an
Interview with Leigh Smith
arctic explorer. in regard to the allega-
ton that the Greedy party were guilty
of canabalism. Smith refused to eX-
press an opinion regarding the truth
of the report. He said, however, Ii
was strange the survivors should have
been so weak and Frustrated il they
hal been living on human flesh. Some
times, he said, starving men were not
responsible for their actions. He him
self knew no authentic case of cana
balism on the part of arctic eX-
plorerS. Personally, he would rather
die than eat human flesh. If the men
under him were reduced to such
straits as these, in which the Greedy
party found, he would not sanction |
drawing lots to see who should die |
that the rest might have food; but if |
the men liked to eat the bodies |
of their comrades who had persisted. |
he would not interfere.
KIsLINGBURY's REMAINS.
WASHINGTON, August 15.-The |
chief signal officer says that while the |
condition of Lieut.. Kislingbury's re-
mains might indicate there had been |
among the members of |
the Greedy party, he had nothing from
Lieut.. Greedy, or any of the survivors, |
that would lead him to believe it was
ST.. lie did not doubt there were
and differences among
members of the party, but he would
not believe it led to violence or ex-
treme measures of any kind, except in
the case of Henry.
WASHINGTON, August Is. - The
records and relics of the Greedy Arctic
expedition which were brought to
New Y ork and there turned over to
the authorities at Governors Island,
were brought here to-day and deliver
ed to the chief signal officer. They
will be used by Lieut.. Greedy in max
ing his report OF the expedition and by
the chief signal officer in making
his report to the secretary of war.
The collection includes all the re-
cords, scientific works and discoveries
Of the Greedy party, their instruments
and private papers and diaries of
members. When the expedition W as
fitted, every member was supplied with
blank books in which to keep
their personal records of events in the
Arctic regions. 1t was the under
standing that these records were
their personal property and not sub
ject to the supervision of Lieut.. |
Greedy, or any one else. Seventeen
persons preserved their contents |
which will be considered confidential |
between the government and the |
writers, and, while a portion of them |
will be used in making up the history |
of the expedition, nothinglthey contain
will be made public until Greely's re-
port is completed. Gen. Hazen says it |
may be year before Greely's report
will be finished.
GUARDIAN CLARK's OPINION.
DETROIT, August &c. Clark,
guardian of the children of Lieut.. |
on being interviewed |
this morning, said: eff brought to such |
a point of starvation, think the I'M
fortunate men would have been thor
oughly justified in doing so. 1t may
be that before he died Kislingbnrg |
was forced to do likewise. It is, to |
say the least, cruel to criticise in the |
that had been done the I'M
fortunate party on its return from the |
horrors of their exile. The friends of |
Lieut.. Kislingburg made a sad mis-
take, in my Judgment, when they per-
mitted the body to be eXhumed. He
states the relations of Greedy and
Kislingburg were most cordial and
stories to the contrary are unjust and
untrue" The basis of his belief in |
this is conversations with different |