Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24

west of the Conger Mountain convinced
me that GTinnell Land tends directly
south from Lieut. Aldrich's farthest
point in 1876. In 1888 Lieut.. Lock
wood and Sergeant Brainard sue
ceeded in crossing Grinnen Land,
ninety miles from Beautux Bay, the head
of Archer's Fiord, and struck the head of
ford from the Western sea, temper
arily named by Lieut. Lockwood
Greeley Ford" From the center of
the ford, in latitude 80 minutes and
thirty seconds and longitude rs minutes
and thirty seconds, Lieut.. Lock wood cav
the northern shore termination, some
twenty miles west, and the southern
shore extending some fifty miles with
Cape Lockwood, some seventy miles dis
tant, apparently a separate land from
GrinnelI's Land. Have named the new
land "Arthur Land" Lieut.. Lockwood
followed, going and returning on ice
caps, averaging about $50 feet perpen-
dicular face. It follows that Grinnen
Land interior is ice capped with a belt
of country some sixty miles wide be-
tween the northern and southern ice caps.
In March, 1884, Sergeant Long, while
hunting, looked from the north west side
of Mount Cary to Hayes Sound, seeing
on the northwest coast three capes north
ward of the furthest seen by Mares in
1876. The sound extends some twenty
miles further west than was shown by
the English chart, but is possibly shut in
by the land which showed up across the
western end.
The two years station duties. observa-
tons, explorations, and the retreat to
Cape Sabine, was accomplished without
loss of life, disease, serious accident, or
even severe frost bites. No scurvy was
experienced at Fort Conger, and but one
death from it occurred last winter.
(Signed,) GREELY,
Commanding.
A second dispatch from Lieutenant
Greedy says: We abandoned Fort Con-
ger on August 9; was frozen in pack of
ice off Victoria Head August %; aban-
doned the steam launch on September
IL, eleven miles northeast of Cooked Hat
Island; when on the point of landing,
was three times driven by southwest
storms into Kane's Island, and finally
landed, on September 20, in Baird Inlet.
Learning by scouting parties Of the
Proteus disaster, and that no provision
| had been left for us, we moved from
| Cape Isabella to Cape Sabine, and estab-
| lished winter quarters at Camp Clay,
! Cooked Hat Island. The game failed,
and despite daily hunting, from early
February, before the sun returned,
only 500 pounds of meat was obtained
this year. Minute shrimps from the sea,
sassafras, rock lichens and seal skins
were resorted to for food, with results as
shown by the number Of survivors,. The
last regular food was issued on May IA.
Only $50 pounds of meat was left by
Darlington, and was compelled to send
four men to obtain IA pounds of English
meat at Cape Isabella. During the trip
Elson froZe both hands and feet solid
and lost them all, surviving, however,
through our terrible winter and spring
until July 8.
The survivors owe their lives to the
indOmitable energy of Capt. Schley and
Lieut.. Emery, who, preceded by three
and accompanied by five whalers, forced
their vessels from the Upper Navick
through Melville Bay into the North
water at Cape York. With the foremost
whaler they gained yard whenever
possible, and always held it. Smiths
Sound was crossed and the party rescued
during one of the most violent gales we
have ever known. The boats were han
/ died only at the risk of swapping them.
Four of us were then unable to walk,
and could not have survived exceeding
twenty hours. Every attention was
given US. We saved and brought back
copies of the meteorological, tidal, as
Economical and magnetic observations,
also forty-eight Photographic negatives
and Photographic proofs. Esquimaux
relics and other things were necessarily
abandoned. The Thetis will remain
here five days probably.
[Signed1 GREELEY, Comd'g.