The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-24

Inc names oI LAe aeau DuIiea In tile /
Ice, with the date of death, where the
bodies were not recovered, are:
Sergeant Rice, April O., 1854.
Corporal Salen, June 3.
Private Bender, June 6.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Pavy, June g.
Sergeant Gardner, June u, drowned
by breaking through newly formed ice
while sealing.
Jeno Edwards (Esquimaux), April 4.
CARING FOR THE DEAD.
'sI would urgently suggest that the
bodies now on board be placed in metal
lie cases here for safer and better trans
portation in a sea way. This appears to
me imperative. Greedy abandoned Fort
Conger August, 3, 1888, and reached
Baird Inlet on September 29th following
with the entire party.
HOW THEY LIVED.
"He abandoned all his boats and was
adrft thirty days on the ice foe in Smith
Sound. His permanent camp was estab-
lished October 81, 1888, at the point
where he was found. During nine months
the party lived upon a scant allowance OF
food brought from Fort COnger. That
cached at Payer Harbor and Cape Isa-
bella by Sir George Mares in 1875, was
found but much damaged by the lapse of
time. That cached by Beebe at Cape
Sabine in 1882, and a small amount saved
from the wreck of the Proteus in 1888,
and landed by Lieutenants Darlington
and CowelI on the beach where Greely's
party was found camped were also
found.
LIVING ON SEAL SKIN.
aWhen these provisions were consumed
the party was forced to live upon boiled
sealskin strips from their sealskin cloth
ing. Lichens and shrimps were procured
in good weather when they were strong
enough to make the eXertion, but as L, ,30O
shrimps were required to make gallon
measure, the labor was too eXhanstlng TO
depend upon them to sustain life entirely.
The channel between Cape Sabine and
| LittIeton Island did not close on account
of violent gales all winter, SO that 24O ra-
| tions at the latter point could not be
| reached.
PERILoUs VOYAGE.
''AH of Greeley's records and all the
| instruments brought by him from Fort
/ Conger are recovered and are on board.
/ From Hare Island to Smiths Sound 1
/ had a constant furious struggle with ice.
| Impassable foes and solid barriers OF Ice
were only overcome by watchfulness and
patience. No opportunity to advance a
| mile escaped me, and for several hundred
| miles the ships were forced to ram their
way from lead to lead through ice vary
ing in thickness from three to six feet
|
THE REsCUING PARTY.
scThe Thetis and Bear reached Cape
York June 18th, after passage OF TWEEN
y-one days in Melville Bay, with two adj
vance ships of the Dundee whaling hee5
and continued to Cape Sabine. Return
inc seven DAYS later they fell in with
seven others of the feet on Wostenholme
Island, and announced Greeley's res
cue to them, that they might not be de-
| -. g..Ivt twyr~ e~rr n q
tempted into the dangers oil omlth !
Sound in view of reward OF $4,000 Oh
fered by Congress.
LIEUTENANT ENIERY's CONDUCT.
"Returning across Melville Bay they
fell in with the Alert and Lock Garry, Of
DEVILS Thumb, struggling through heavl
ice. Commander Coffin did admirably tC
get along so far with the transport 50
early in the season, before the opening
had occurred. Lieutenant Emery VIII
the Bear, had supported me Throughout
with great skiIlfuiness and unfiaggini
readiness in accomplishing the great dutl
OF relieving Greely.
ALMOST TOO LATE.
aT would like to ask instructions abou
the Lock Garry, as the charter party hello
bv her master differs in several respects
| from minc."
: Greely and party are much improves
: I'm health since rescued, but their condi
/. tion was critical in the extreme whel
J found, and for some days after. Forty
{ | eight hours delay in reaching then
T would have been fatal to all now living
A CLOSE WINTER.
"This season North is late and tn
closest for years Smiths Sound wa
not open when left Cape Sabine. Tn
| winter about Melville Bay was the mos
severe for twenty years. This great r
: suit is entirely due 10 the prompt actio
J, and unwearied energy Of Yourself and Oh
4 Secretary Of War in fitting this exped
/, ton for the work it has had the honor
4 | accomplish.
TSigned1
|, 'W. S. ScrnEY, Commander"