The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-18


of 209O feet, using his strongest glass on
Halls basin and Robeson's channel,
could discover nothing but ice packs.
Here 1t was that DR.. Hayes claimed TO
have seen his open polar sea.
In the trip of 1882, Lockwood /
reached the highest latitude ever :
attained, eighty-three degrees twenty !.
hNe minutes north. This was
about 500 miles north of Lady Franklin $
Bay, but to get there, he Travelled over q
1900 miles in open water and broken
packs, frequently causing him to retrace |
his steps fifty miles. Lockwood :
sounded the sea both years, between Cape
Bryant and Cape Britannia, but could
not touch bottom with a one hundred
and tiftyfive fathom line. Markham, a
few years before, about one hundred
mics to the west, got bottom at seven
ty-two fathoms. Lockwood found,at his
turthest point north about the same veg
etation as at Lady Franklin Bay, but
polar sea. In 1888 he was stopped near |
Cape Bryant, lbs miles from Lady |
Franklin Bay, by an open channel eN- |
tending west of the coast of GrinnelPs |
| Land.
The width of this channel varied from
| 200 yards 10 five miles, but ON the north
| T. e ice packs extended far as could be
seen with the glass. With his supply of
provisions, failure of which had caused
| his reuuru: the.year before, Lockwood was
/ confident that he could have reached
eighty-iive degrees north, if this open
channel had not barred his way. Mo-
fossil remains were discovered on the
trip, and the only ones found were
trunks of trees. On the southwest coast
Of Grinnell's Land only sea animals were
seen by Lockwood. AT eighty-iive de-
greeS and twenty-five minutes were W, l.
rus and seals, and strange to say the
walrus is not to be found at Lady Frank
lin Bay. At SO degrees, % minutes, de-
lection the magnetic needle was l0l de-
groes west, more than one-fourth of a
circle. AS far as LockW God
went the northwestern end of
; the Greenland coast continued. The
5 maps of the regions he discovered are
, in possession of Greedy and are very
/ carefully made. All through the two
, years at Lady Franklin Bay the mag
= netic needle was never quiet except
, during storms. On February s,
: were made by establishing a
f depot at Cape Baird, twelve
g miles south. Day after day anxious
: mon looked over Lady Franklin Bay
= expecting the ice to open, so that they
@ could commence their journey home
/ At last, August 18th. 1888, the welcome
d news that the ice was open was brought
d All had been made ready, AMI tina
n day the party embarked III little
2, steam launch; several times, all the boat
!, were nearly lost. The suffering of TIN
N men was very great. They were nov
d within fifty miles Of Cape Sabine. ii
thirteen days they drifted south twenty
H. five miles on foes, SutiCrlng hurrlDl,
al from cold. 80, they ur!tted 4
Pc within eleven niles of Cape Sabin
n. and were then obliged 70 abandon
ne the steam launch September 10th. Tn
es pack now remained motionlesS for tire
or days, and several times the party 20
/, within two orthree miles of Cape Sabine
nj only to be driited back by southWySes
,d gales. Five seals were kille
he and eaten while the part
en- were drifting. About September 20
o.. there arose the most terrific gale the
q. had vet seen i'm the Arctic ocean. Their
OF in the Ice iloe they were drifted about b
ri. .empestOus waves washed over thel
nd again and again, the spray freezing
ND. them and causing them Intense suuerinj
IN The wind threw heavy tioC
he together and crash after crash
an ice breaking from their own foe warnC
,ra The men death W; near. no man kne
ar when the foe might break up and q
,as water enguli them. The first faint ligI
ID Of dawn showed them that little I
va manned of the tloe. The sea wash,
,as another close to them. Closer ii can
ma and at the wOrd the men succeeded
,ed getting upon II.
nj The storm slowly subsidized, and Tho
gained land at EsquimauN Point ne
eff, Baird's inlet, September %. Here wi
nv ter quarters were built, and scouts we
mr. sent to Cape Isabella and Cape Sabin
| Ia, "a fnNg IpNrl fhneA ratnvupI- fIhpir
MD port sent thrill of horror to eve
heart. At Cape Isabella IN
,ve at Cape Sabine were ioul
far only few rations and from Darlington
mi records they learned the fate of d
roe Proteus. Every one knew that dea
'ly. must come to nearly all of the par
tbo long before a ship of rescue could for
The It's way into Melville bay. Efforts we
nj. made 10 sustain the spirits of the me
,ne October 10 the party removed to Ca
aso Sabine. January Is Cross died of scurN
the In April the rations issued daily had {
md clined to four ounces of meat and /
,eIs ounces of bread. Man after man di
nv and all hope had He'd, when on that d
o. the blast Of whistle reused the sur
,ost vors from the lethergy of approach
! he death.
r rV Greedy, when asked as to his id,
n upon the probable results
uln the Altllt tAllOIhtlullN' oulNs
Wv, do not think the North pole can
,%li reached unless every circumstaI
, ,Ira hitherto found to be unfav
,,,is. able should prove favorable
,S.r9. The party attempting to reach
o 700 pole. Ifit is done at all it will be dc
de. blythe way of Franz Joseph's land. Ito
IN never be reached by the Jeanette rot
,ln,, That there is open water ! am certa
''0" This is proven by the ice. DRIFT
ozo out of Spitzbergen in midwin
" o,,s and the Northern drift of pc
nv pack. BY experiments of Pavy
rnds Lockwood in oighty-two degrees
.htlv eighty-three minutes, mel, can stand
~cs, Winters very well ut Franklin,
soa, their strength rapidly dete
'' ~ rates. If we had had CIV
,enf supply and no scarcity,
~, a9' W food, we could perhaps, have lived eli
Shi or Ten wears at Lady Franklin Bay.