Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-08-18
IN THE FROZEN NORTH.
Lirur. uKrELy,s rrRILous VOYAGE.
| How the Arctic Explorers Passed Their
| Iime.-Jbe scientific Results OF the M
| starred Expedition,

LIEUT., 4ktFbNS ftRfiOUs NOhAcE,
How the Arctic Explorers Passed Their
Iime.-Jhe scientific Results OF the III.
starred Expedition.
The proteus steamed away from st.
Johns, n. +, July I, 1881, with the party
un board. She touched at Disco island
aud Upernavik to procure sledges, dogs,
skins aud dog food. Two EsquimauH
were added to the party at Proven. Laud
ing was made at Cary Island iu the north
water, and provisions were cached by
Mares in 1873 in the Alert were found in
good condition. At Littletou Island Lieut.
Greedy personally recovered the English
Arctic mail left by Sir Allen Young IN the
Pandora in 1876. At Carl Ritter bay, in
Kennedy chanuel cache cf provisions
for use on the retreat was made. GA
August 2S, the Greedy. party aud tho mon
of the Proteus parted company
Fort Couger was built soon afterwards.
During the day the men dressed in ordi-
nary outside clothing, but their ilinnels
were very heavy. Five of the men were
generally for part Of the day engaged in
scientific work under Lieutenant Greedy s
direction, and in the duties OF the camp
the rest OF the men were employed gcuer-
ally about one hour a day, and devoted
| tho remainder of the time to amusement
All slept in buuks. The quarters were
heated by largo coal stove, the average
| beat maintained being 81 above zero.
| Playing checkers, cards aud chess aud
| reading were tho amos NmCuis of the even.
| lug. Tho life was said by Lieutenant
| Greedy 10 be far from u lonely one, and
many Of the men SAID they had never
passed two happier yCats than those spent
at Fort Conger.
| The Midright sun.
On the 18th Of October the sun left then
for 1856 days, twilight, varying from
half an hour to tsenty.IOur hours, succeed.
| cd. For two mouths II was so dim that
the dial of II watch could not be read by Il
On April llth the sun came above the
horizon aud remained there l3J days
giving the party great suitciency OF mid
night sun, During three months the star
were visible constantly, the consultations o
Orions, Beet and the Great Bear being tn,
brightest. The North Star looked dOwI
from almost overhead.
Standing alone outside the fort on on,
OF these nights the scene was weirdly grand
To the north famed the aurora bOrcalis
and the bright CONSULTATIONS were set lik,
jewels around the glowing moon over
everything was dead silence, SO horribl!
|
tempted TO kill himself, so lonely does h
feel. The astronomer OF the party SAT-
that with the naked eye a star OF one de
gree smaller magnitude than can be soel
here in the same way might be dscerued
The neon would remain in sight for frou
eleven to twelve days at time.
Markings of the Thermometer.
The thermomotor registered on Jun
| l. Il.
Lady Franklin bay which we knew durinl
our stay. 1t was 52 degrees above zero
The lowest was in February, 1888, an,
was &C degrees below zero. Ia this Feb
ruary our mercury frOZs and rename,
solid for fifteen days, 80 intense was tn
cold. The mercury in the thermomote
invariably rose during storms aud higI
winds. The highest barometer wa
slightly above 81 inches and the loves
slightly below 20 inches, showing grea
; range.
The greatest variations were in tb
winter. The electrometer, an instrumeu
used to ascertain the presence OF olet
Q tricity, was set up, but to the astouisl
ment of Lieut.. Greedy not the slightet
results were obtained. The displays {
aurora were very good, but not 20 be con
pared with those seen at Disco Island q
Uppernavik. AS far as Lieutenant Greel
could observe, no cracking sound accom-
panied the displays, and the general shap
was that of a ribbon. The southwestern
horizon was the quarter III which ia
brightest displays were seen.
The vegetation az Lady Franklin Bay
about the same as at Cape Sabine, au
comprises MOSES, lichens, willows an
saxlirage. Snow storms are of course
most frequent, ard raiuiaIls very rare
The highest velocity of tho wind wa
registered duriug terrific snow storm
miles per hour. Lock woods trip 10 th
north III 1882 and 1888 were productiy
of the most valuable results. Standing
on the 10Th of May ia each year, wher
DR.. Hayes had formerly stood about tn
same day, Lockwood, from an elevation {
900 feet, using his strongest glass o
Halls basin and RobesOn's channel. coul
discern nothing but ice packs. Here
was DR.. Hayes claimed TO have seen hi
open Polar sea.
.On the trip of 1882 Lockwood ruache
! the highest latitude ever attainGd-S3
, N. This was about 800 miles directly mort
of Lady Franklin Bay, but to get ther
he travelled over 1000 miles, the ope
water and broken packs frequently causln
him to retrace his steps so miles. Loeb
. | WbOu hOuuiCu luc bGth OOJu JbdIS DtIWec
Cape Bryant aud Cape Britannia, but coul
not touch bottom with l3j fatAoms Of line
How tho North Pole eau Be Reacnsd.
Lieut.. Greedy, when asked as to his idea
upon the probable results of the ArCti
explorations, said 81 do not think I'll
North Pole can DO reached unless ever
ciTcums tance hitherto found TO be unfi
vOrable should prove favorable to tn
party attempting TO reach the pole. Ii
1t is done at all, 1t will be done by way {
Franz Josef Land. 1t could never hay
, been reached by the Jeannettc's route.
THAT there Is an open polar sea | NJ
we'll nigh certain. This is proved by tn
ice drifting out of Mussel Bay and Spitz
bergen in mid. winter, and the nOrther
I drift OF the polar pack experienced b
, Parry and Lockwood in SO degrees and
minutes. Men can stand two winters Yer
T well at Franklin Bay, but physical strcngt
rapidly deteriOrates. II We had had ever
; supply and necessary of food we cOu
, have lived perhaps eight or ton years
. Lady Franklin bay"
The story OF the CsnIioaIism.
Lieutenant Greedy says of tho dsclosur,
regarding the condition of LieutenaI
kisliugbury's body that it il news
{ horrible news-tO him. Ali these dil
y closures, he says, have caused him moi
J mental anguish than all tho eIperieuc,
from which he suffered in the North. /
! says that, If there was any cannibalis
! practced, it was done in secrecy, withoI