Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-08-01
GREEDY RELIEF PARTY,
THRILLING DETAILS OF THE TRIP.
Notes From the Log of the Ioch Garry
Relating the prrii~ Encountered
and how they were mct-Thc
Disasters of the Return.

New YORK, July ?i-'rhc following de
. tails from the log of the steamship Loeb
fairy of the Greedy relief expedition were
furnished to-day by Ensign Chambers L.
:. y, who was in command of the vessel
Curing he cruise to the polar region:
GA our first day out from st Johns a
p heavy fpL "uNclopcd rs and we encounters
cd 1t large iceberg. In steering out of the
way of the latter we los, SIGHT of the
Theti~ and could only resume our position
10y the sound of her Whistles On MAY Is.
when off Cape Farewell. we met the first
great quantity of ice and were Obliged to
go ahead slowly On MAY ~ we sighted
Disco but had much difficulty in finding
lihrbor Island. 1t was covered with ice
and snow and the landmarks were invis-
ible We left GOdhavpn ON May 94th. at q
a. m, and steamed through the ice along
the coast To Il point about ten miles below
Hare Island. Here we found the ice so
lay TO. Lieut. Schley sgnalcd
for me to 90 back to Godhavcn
and wait for favorable opportunity with
an east wind To proceed to CpcrnaVik
We left Goodhaven second time May u.
and encountered more ice through which
we pushed our way and found the Thetis
lying to at Hare Island, having been I'M
able To blast her way through the ice. The
next morning the whalerS, Arctic and
w off, joined us and we started ahead. The
ice was heavy and we experienced great
difficulty in making progress, and several
times narrowly escaped collision with the
Wolf. We were afraid to back very much
for our propeller was only IL four bladed
cast iron one and had we broken theblade
It would have been all up with us We
nnally succeeded i'll lamming ahead and
the Wolf followed in the opening we made
The Thetis was now ont of sight and we
set our course for OOmenack ford. Here
we sighted the ThctiS ten miles ahead We
overhaulrd her on May -. Capt Schcy
hailed Us and said "Go to UpernavIl. call
ing AT Proven. If you meet the Bear coal
her with despatch.' During the fog
which came on we got into il false lead
and while returning to open water to try
another met the Thets and we proceeded
together to (pernavik in the midst of Il
binding snow storm. which lasted all
we found the Bear and Coaled her. The
vessels remained in the vicinity for nearly
a week, when the Thcti> and Bear pro
Ceeded northward, while we waited for the
Alert which arrived June l4th The gov
ernor Of l'pcrnavik told us there was no
hope Of getting through Melville bay as
the season was unusually close.
We left with the Alert June 9lst and
reached Berry Islands. June 23d. We
went ahead, pushing through.the iccall the
way and .Iunc 23th. reached Horses Head.
Here the Alert got nippcd in the ice and
in trying to yet her ont We lost So much
impenctrablc. We lay damned in
the ice of Duck Island till June
10Th We worked all might ON
the 18th, blasting and saving ice
and finally got away into open water. On
June 30 we were off Wilcox Head. where
we had more hard pushing to reach the
open water beyond Devils Thumb. While