Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-28

Britannia, but could not touch bottom With
a IT'S fathoms line. Markham, few years
i before, about one hundred miles to the west,
! got bottom at 70 fathonls Lockwood found
/ at his furthest north about thu same
vegetation as at Lady Franklin
i Bay, but no signs of Polar cur
rent or an open Polar sea. In 1883 he was
stopped near Cape Bryant, 125 miles from
| Lady Franklin Bay, by an open channel ex-
| tending west to the coast of Grinnel Land.
The width of this channel varied from 200
wards to five miles, but on the north the ice,
! packs extended as far as could be seen with
a glass. With his supply of provisions, the
| failure of which had caused his return the
| wear before Iockw God was confident he
could have reached eight-five degrees north
| if this open channel had not barred his
way.
NO FOSSIL REMAINS
were discovered on the trip and the only
ones found were the trunks of trees oh the
southwest coast of Grinnel Land. The only
sea animals seen by. Lockwood ut eighty
three degrees, twenty-five minutes, were
walrus and seals, and strange to say the
walrus is not to be found at Lady Franklin
Bay. At eIgfty-tIiree degrees, twenty-five
minutes, the detection of tine magnetic
needle was one hundred and four degrees
west-more than one fourth OF circle. As
far as Lockwood went the northeastern trend
of the Greenland coast continued. The
maps of the regions re discovered are in the
possession of Lieutenant Greedy, and are
very carefully made. All through the two
years at Lady franklin Bay the magnetic
needle was never quiet except during
storms. In February. 1883, preparations
for the retreat were made by establishing
depot at Cape Baird, twelve miles to the
south. Day after day the anxious men
ing the ice to open so that they might COM
mence their journey toward home. AT last,
August 10, 1885, the welcome news that
the ice was open was brought. All
had 1een made ready, and that very
tAy the party embarked in their lit
tie steam launch. Behind them they
left their dogs, as they could not be takeh.
-Four barrels of pork and soSle seal oil were
left for the animals. Lady Franklin Bay
was. crossed to Cape Baird, distance of
thirteen miles. and then the western coast
Of Grinnell Land was followed south as far
as Cape Hawkes.. L,rge quantities of
heavy ice were met and there was extreme
danger every moment that the little launch
would be crushed, and several times all the
boats were nearly lost. The suffering of
the men was great. They were now within
MY tulilC5 VI S0pC A'uoihN- Ills iionA
Cape Hawkes. direct from Babes Island, the
party was caught In an ice pack and frozen
in. ten miles south of Cape Hawkes.. In
thirteen days they drifted south twenty-five
miles on foes, suffering terribly with cold.
So they drifted to within eleven miles of
Cape Sabine and We're obliged to
ABANDON THE STEAM LAUNCH
September 10. The pack now remained
motionless for three days, and several times
the party got within two or three miles of
Cape Sabine only to be drifted back by
southwest gales. Five seals We're killed and
eaten while the party was drifting about.
Eventually heavy northwest gale drove
them by Cape Sabine within mile of Bre-
wort Island, but they could not land. Sep
tember % there arose the most
terrific gale they had yet seen on the Arctic
ocean, Their ice foe was driven hither ard
thitheri by the tempest, and the waves
washed over them again and again, TIE
spray freezing to them and causing them
intense suffering. Night came on, one Of
inky blackneSs; the wind threw heavy foe,
together, and crash after crash of ice break
ing from their own foe warned the men thft
death was near to them. No man Knew the
minute the foe might break up and the
water engulf them. The first faint light of
dawn showed them that little re-
manned of the foe on which they
were. The sea washed another close
to them. Closer it came, and at last
the men succeeded in getting upon t. The
storm slowly subsidized and they gained the
land at Esquimaux Point, near Bard's In
let, September 49,, Here winter quarters
We're built, and scouts were sent to Cape Is
abella and Cape Sabine. In few days
they returned. Ther,report sent thrill of
horror to every heart. At Cape Isabella
and Cape Sabine were found only one thous-
and eight hundred rations, and from Gar
lingt0nIs records they learned the fate of the
Proteus. Every one knew that death must
come to nearly all of the party long before
ship of rescue could force it's way into Mel
vile. Efforts were made to sustain their
spirits by lectures and light reading Octo-
Der Is the party removed to Cape Sabine.
January Is Cross died of scurvy. an April
the rations issued daily had dwindled to
four ounces of meat and six ounces Of
bread. IA ftt54M
MAN AFTER Man DIED,
and all hope had fled when on that day the
blast of a whistle reused the Survivors from
the ltethargy, of approaching death. Lieu
tenant Greedy, when asked as to his ideas
upon the probable result of Arctic explora- =
tons, said; II do not think the North Pole
can be reached unless every circumstance
heretofore found to be unfayorable should
prove favorable to the party attempting to
reach the pole. lie it is to be done nj all it
will be done by way of Franz Josef Land
1t could not be reached by the Jeanette
route. That there is an open polar sea am
we'll nigh certain. This is proved by ice
drifting out of Mussel Bay and. Spitzbergen
IN midwinter, and the Northern drift of the
polar pack experiment by Pavy and Lock-
wood in eigllty-two degre es and three min
ltes. Men can stand two winters Very well
It Lady Franklin Bay, but physical strength
'apidly deteriorates. Ii we, had every sup
ply needed, we could perhaps have lived