Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-10-31

OF the press. lie WOull naFc Sa..u Gt
man of the party. "Nohe ",'! wou'u it
have been the words Wireo over tne u
would by Commander Schley. to cleo m
trify it's people, and DR.. PAWS order Il
TO have provisions LETT at Cape SABINE D,
instead of across the impossible chan V,
mel at Littleton Island would have N
caused the glad news. il
II will be recalled that this island, Il
with food upon it. was but 10 mileS s,
distant, and these starving men couia II
not cross the channel to get it. Mnch d
comment has been made upon the re-
t,e,t of three hundred miles, about 80 b
days to Cane Sabine, accomplished by fl
this partv. Dr.Pavy Offercd,no only TO Il
take the same trip, but to do so with TWO #
men and return TO Fort Conger, April, v
June, making a journey OF SIX huhufe" f
miles. Only the refusal OF the COM
mandcr prevented DR.. Pavy from De-
ing alive to day, and all his comrades t
also. lie offered herOism as the price |
/ of life, refusal was fatality. He woulu
have been the hero and savior snail 1
the will for that heroic deed, 60 un-
named ? The lives of 70 men; the
health of the six survivors; the saving
| of more than a million of dollars for
the relief ships alone (nOt naming the
pensions and many other necessary out
iavs), the return of preserved and per-
feet records instead of mutilated ones
would have resulted from DR.. Paws
offer. Would this have been trivial
gain
offer heroic, as well as the results val
1 liable had they been accepted and accom-
plished ? 1t is questson the congress
3 of these United States should answer.
= DR.. Pavy's record, AS an explorer,
5 quoted from official records, is as fol-
: lows, with more to be developed when
| a fuller official statement shall be made:
f 'sDr. Pavy and Lieut.. Lockwood prov
ed that Lincoln Sea, during two sue
q cessiye seasons, was full of floating ice
t instead of being the perpetnally frozen
It ocean that Sir Geo. Mares described.
s. The Greely party greatly extended the
b. limits of the Mares explorations, both
v in Greenland and Grinnell Land, and
It have given severe blow to Sir Geo.
!; Mares .Paleocrystic Ice and the theo-
= ries which Mares founded upon it. The
Y fact that two of Greely's sledge par
- ties, one led by DR.. Pavy with Rice,
l. the other by Lockwood and Brainard,
e. were stopped by open water in the
It polar basin, and that both were at
N times adrift in strong currents which
s. threatened to carry them helplessly
Il away northward, would seem to show
I'd that the polar basin is not the solid sea
to of ancient immovable ice which Sir
h. Geo. Mares described, and which he
r. declared was never navlgable."
I'd Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia quotes
ty Lieut.. Greely as to the results of Arctic
lie, exploration as follows: 81 do not think
ee the north pole can be reached unless
rs every circumstance hitherto found to
:e, be unfavorable should prove favorable
II. to the party attempting to reach thu
he pole. If it is to be done at all, it viii
lie be done by way of Franz-Josef Land.
cir 1t could never have been reached by
)st the .Jeannette's route (ship sent out
under DeLong by James Gordon Ben
for nett). That there is an open pola
lpe sea, | am well nigh certain. This wa
nd proved by the drifting out OF Muscl
sed BAY and Spitzbergen in mid-winter
my and the northern drift Of the polar pac
ere experienced by Pavy and Lockwood il
the SO degrees, % minutes. Men can stan
two winters very well at Lady Frank
for lin Bay, but physical strength deterlol
bed ates. If we had had every supply an
nn- necessary food, we could have live
,ec- perhaps 8 or ten years at Lady Frank
S of lin Bay, 81 degrees and A minutes.
and Lieut.. .Greely yfurthcr says: "Dr. Pav.
No Rice and Eskimo Jens, March 18th
oc- 1882, went north of Cape Joseph Hel
nee ry; cached supplies to that point
sedge broke down; Rice and Jens T.
ten turned Oh foot without sleeping bas
,nly or tents, distance of so miles, and o
l of tanned new runner, rejoining the
leader i'm 5 days. Perhaps this was Il
most wonderful case of solitude on re
= &c ord, that of DR.. Pavy remaining alol
edi- aI 90 ueSloIe no' WI a,,;,o.lS yo
~ numerous, foxes and bears were fl
de- uuently seen; a weird solitude. U
SiS this Journey they reached SO degre
.I latitude. Southerly gales detached
, tho tho ice pack and they dritted about for
sst;II Lii hours with an open lane OF water |
49, tween them and the land. Change
wind drove them shore ward and tn
ood- managed to escape with the loss
q IL in their tent and supplies. Reached F'
The Conger, May 5. Thus they were pl
icer, vented by catastrophe from aGcomPh'
inv inc. ing any scientific work. DR.. Pa
M and Sergt. Brainard made
vu ',;n overland trip from Oct. &c to N
sncH s, 5th, to Carl Ritter Bay, with d
ra' team; but in vain looked for signs o
ions relief vessel' Greedy, further says,
"a at the Cyclopedia: CDR Pavy and Corpo
"i," Ellison made an overland trip i'll
% nS- latter part of August from Cape Ba
bave to Carl Ritter Bay, and discovered
, tho large valley extending across ID
:. fto. Peninsula to Cape Defense"
~otin The river and valley will bear
rbest name, as discoverer.
hao', The real value of the work of Lie
oin% % Greely's party will consist in
9am5 synchronous observations taken dur
ever 1892.
The Lady Franklin Bay Polar Ex
. dition, popularity known as the Gre
=, ~ party, was one of the five clrcum-pt
Gu " stations of the world, established
',iPs act of an inter national congress
Danu scientists held at Vienna, Austria,
latterly at st. Petersburg, Russla.
AIctic The explorations of Greely on Gl
9 oaI nell Land are supposed to establish
'ie fact that it, Grinnell Land, is an isla
the western border of which
says: reached-Grant Land being a penins
;ience connected with it.
galnst The region of DR.. j. j. Hayes o
polar sea was filled with ice packs
Kill of From an elevation of 1900
ttling Lieut.. Lockwood could see no lant
heavy the north, though for two days
onse- atmosphere was remarkably clear,
Look it has been concluded by some auth
ndred ties that Greenland is all island eXtt
tions, ing little, or not at all, beyond So
Arctic grees north latitude.
G and Lockwoods andBrainard' = travel
freely the north coast of Greenland car
IL and exploration one degree of latitude
as he ther and about 10 degrees of longli
medi- further than the point previously
ques- tanned.
e, the That there is an open polar sea
ealth, proved to Greely by the ice drifting
ers of of Muscle Bay and SpitzberSel
| JOUR- mid-winter, and the northern dri
e high the polar pack experienced by
9Th of Pavy and Lockwood, So degrees an
er and minutes The Greely party exp
poor tons also proved that farther TIA
Il odds must be made by way OF Franz
ecord. Land.
csults, The Encyclopedia Britannica 5
cen his eff precautions proved to be neces
ty-five by experience are taken, there
ears in undue risk or danger i'll polar C
in by prise"
loTious There is now no question as t'
with discovery, and as to the principle
nd the which expeditions should be sent