Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-23
FAMOUS R0PLoRER.
DIR. Hae and ni. Arc1Ic Adrentur

DIR. Hae and HIS Arctic Adventures.
lFrom the London Standard
The death of DR.. Rse, which occurred
on Monday afternoon st his residence In
Addison Gardsns North, removes the last
of the olde. school Of Arctic explorers.
For years his stslwart figure has been 60
familiar to the freguenters of the Geo
graphical and other meetings. and he al
ways looked go young, that 1t was come
times difficult to remember that he be-
lopged to past generation OF travellers
He was exploring the Arctic regions when
Franklin wss still slive, and was the IA
miliar friend Of Parry, Of Simpson, of
Back, of the Ross,s and ct Richardson.
BE had won great fams by the discovery
of the hrst indub!tahle proofs Of a terri
be disaster having befsllen the Erehus and
Terror before Kane, Hayes, Hall, McClin-
| tock, Richards, Belcher, Inglefeld, Ksllst
and Mcclure had become known In CON
| nection with the Far Addison rosd and his
Orkney Moor when the world began TO
hear of Mares and Markham, and Nor
denski iold and Greely; and De Long. Yet
be was vigorous enough not many months
ego to cTi.icise in tho columns OF tbs
STANDARD" the plans of Nan.en and the
| rsports of Pesry. Dr.. Rae was born in
1913, 60 that he had nearly cOsplsted his
eightieth year. a member OF a welLknaEn
Orkney family, STromness claimed him as
her most distinguished son. His mother
was a notable woman, who is believed 10
have ,uggested to Sir Walter Scott much
of the plot which he sfterHsrd embodied
In "rhe Pirate" For IL Nas while living
In the House of Claistrop, on the other
al Ia FNE lat
| tained the famous novelist, and told him
the tale of John Cow, who he'd bsen born
In that house, snd intended looting il
when, in l725, he turned up st Stromness
In command of a pirate brig. The Rae
boys were familiar from their childhood
| with firearms and hoats.
Accordingly, ii WAS only in the fitness
| of things that John should enter the Bud-
son Bay company's service almost ss coon
as be had taken MS dirloms in Edinburgh.
Ras's nominal duty was that Of surgeon;
| but the doctor soon drifted into the :reieT,
and before he left "ths couutry" he had
| attained the rank of chief fsctor. In
1876 the Hudson BaT company resolved 10
justify Its position along The shores Of tire
Polar Sea by doing something for the dIs-
| covery of the northwest passage, by ex-
| ploTing the supposed bay reached some
years earlier by Dease snd Simpson, TO the
esst of Fury sud Hecla Strait. Rec was
/ put IN command OF thirteen men, and or
dered to start for Fort Churchill, in Hud-
sons Bay, sud make their way 10 R4p1lse
Bay, and then first up the western and
next by the eastern coast of the Gulf of
Akkolee, by msans Of bosts, dragged when
necessary over "poEtsges." AT Rspulss
Bay the party Hintered, after the com
mander had procured q stock of provi-
sions by hunting and fishing, principally
reindeer and salmon. They lived for part
| of the time in q snow houss, but, except
for cooking, they hAd no fuel during the
whole of the winter. Next spring six of
the expedition started north, with sledges,
and travelled along the west shore Of the
Cult of Akkolee, reaching the vicinity Of
Sir John Ross most sonthsrly discoveries,
thus forever putting a. rest ifs supposed
communication with tho Polar sea. They
now set OF for the coast scrcss the land,
In a tiresome march through the soft snow
and ecross Eve frczsn lakes, in about lBss
tude sIxty-Dine degrees twenty-six minutes
north, until an Isle; whs reached by Rae
slone. From o rising ground he found
rhs water to be actually Al ice covered sea,
studded with innumsrBhle islands, and
stretching for long distance ahead Of
him. II proved TO be the Lord Aayor's
Bay Of the Victory voyage, and the IslAnds
these which Sir John Ross bad named The
/
Scotland" Rae had simply crossed a Pc
nInsula of the Gulf Of Akkolee, and
proved that the shores which bad wit
messed the disaster Of the Victory, the
eastern shores of BoothiA, were c0ntinu-
ous with the mainland of America This
| p~nInsula he named after Sir John Ross,
and the isthmus after his nephew, the
still more celebrated Sir James Clarke
Ross. After some further discoveries the
party returned to Fort Churchill On the
3Ist of August, lS47.
Rae was, however, not long permitted 10
remain idle, for next summer he was OF.
: dered to accompany Sir John Richardson,
J the intimate friend and former companion
I of Sir John franklin, on q search expedI
| ton for the Erebus and Terror, dov n III.
Mackenzie river and along the sdjoinin.
coast. After an interesting summe,
: search, and q winter at Fort Confidence
0 the expedition returned 10 England With