Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-07-24

was no Zee III II 10 the solithwsfd within
The reach OF has glsss. AZ that very
moncet he Neptune, about one hundred
end forty miles southwark. was trying 70
escape from The iee.pack In which she had
been drifting. Fourteen days earlier sbc
bad entered the strait near Littlcton Island
AND had encountered barrier OF
ice, from twelve 10 twenty feet thick.
stretching from shore 10 shore and Ito
The northern horizon.r Two days before
Greely was pccfing through bis tele-
scope nj Cape Defosse. Beebe was Drift
ing in the pack n far north as Cape HAWKS,
which ~ only 125 miles sou'h Of the spot
where Greely stood. Greely returned 70
Comp CoSger. wondering why the relief
ship had not appeared on Us way north
ward IA The clear water Of ker nedy chan
mel, Beebe drificd hack and forth, then
anchored near the spot where go many o.
Grccly's compapions aiterward starved 10
death. and at last. seeing ice TO the north.
ward az far as The eve could reach, on Sep
tembcr 9TH started for home. The colony
prepared for another long, sunless winter.
one year Liter Greely and all 81 his con.
paniens were sailing down Kennedy chan
mel in their boats. They had abandoned
The station, aud were beginning q perilous
Journey, but they believed that provisions
In abundance had been deposited along be
route for their use. and that their friends,
encampcd on the other side OF the straIt 1t
Liitleton Island or Lhebcat Cove, were
waiting for them "wiIh their talc
10 lie nolthWard." Gfee,v started
on August 9th. and on August 29h
he reached Cape Hawks, 49, miles south ~
4 4
which Beebe and the Neptune had dFif;od
twelve months earlier. The channel has
been open. ard when Grcelg started TO sail
across from cape Hawks 10 Cape Sabine on
Aucust 2Gih there was an abundance Of
clear water in front Of him. Seventeen days
btiorc Greeiy's departure from Camp Con-
ger tic PTotcuS. bearing the Darlington
party. l8d been crushed IN the ice near
Cane sabine. On Tic day following Gree
". departure from Camp C0ngci. Gar
ingtOn. retlealing down The Greenland
coast IN boats. reached Cape York. Just
bCforc Greely leit his camp She lan'ic was
St,apiug nOnhWHrd. On August 81 che
wsg I'm Smiths sound. and COWmindar
Wildes on that day looked across the strait
from Littleton Island. There was "nO
lee in sight," and Cape Hawks and
Cane Sfhine, on the Other side were
"disEnc!iy visible" lie did not 80
ncrlhward. Having discovered that Car
iinglOn and bis men were sailing south
WARD iA boats 20 save their lives,
he followed them. While Greedy WIS
comme down Kennedy emanuel in clear
water WlGes WIS roiD. southwark along
tie Greenland coast. lie reached Upgr-
payik on August l2ih. aud remained there
for ten days. A lew DAYS later he steamed
away for s.. Johns. While ho, with the
men rescued from the pTo,eus, were on
their way home Greedy and his men were
battling with The ice IN Kane basin. and
they did no. reach the shore, 90 Bard in- !
If, until the Nartic had been IN port FOR
n'Hc Gsy,. \ icW DAYS later The heroic o.
servers began 20 starve.
The adventures Of all those parties ou-h, |
20 throw some ljoht upon navigation in
smiths sound and Kennedy channel. II. /
appears that ut times wien The sound I, !
blocked with impossible ice, and kane !
laslB, adjoining il 10 the Eor,bwJrd. is |
Fled with pack, Kennedy channel may be /
Z perfectly clear. The lee barrier Fiat /
chokcd the strait might have been safely |
crossed in 1889 aud 1889 hy siedgc parties. /
ard Gle water would have been found |
btyOud