Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-27


looked at him in surprise.
Leave here? You surely cannot mean
it. | shall never leave here again
But only for tonight. We can return
tomorrow for good. 1t is not safe to stay
here tonight
Again her eyes rebuked him.
NO harm can come to us here. We are
safer here than any place in the world.
Don't you remember. we called ;;
Haven? That means rest and safety,
good old ship must have made from Mel
vile Island where she was abandoned.
through Barrow straits, Lancaster souhu
and Baffin's bay. during the period OF
474 days which interviewed between hef
abandonment and her recovery. 1t may
be conjectured that ice. loosened during
the short summers of 1854 and 300
drifted with the current into Davis stralt
and carried the Resolute along with IT,
Great ecat now attached to the British
exploring ship, and her presentation TO
England was made the occasion OF an IN
ternational ceremony. On August Is.
1885, Congress passed the following reso-
luton:
Whereas, it has become known to Con-
gress that the ship Resolute. late of the
navy of Her Majesty the Queen OF the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, oh service in the arctic seas In
search of Sir John Franklin and the sur
vivors OF the expedition under his com
mand. was rescued and recovered in those
seas by the officers and crew of the Amer
lean whaleship the George Henry, after
the Resolute had been necessarily aban-
doned in the ice by her officers and crew.
and after drifting still in the ice for more
than 1000 miles from the place where so
abandoned, and that the said ship ReSo-
lutte, having been brought to the United
States by the salvors at great risk and
peril. had been generously relinquished
by them to her majesty's government:
Now, in token of the deep interest felt
in the United States for the service In
which her majesty's said ship was en-
gagged when thus necessarily abandoned.
and of the sense entertained by Congress
OF the act of her majestyS government
in surrendering said ship to the salvors
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the President of the United States be, and
he is hereby. requested to cause the said
ship 'Resolute,' with all her armament,
equipment and property on board when
she arrived in the United States. and
which has been preserved In good cons
dition. TO be purchased of her present
owners, and that he send the said ship
with everything pertaining to her, as
aforesaid, after being fully repaired and
equipped al one of the navy yards of the
United States. back to England under
control of the Secretary of the Navy, with
request to her maiesty's government
that the United States be allowed to re-
store the said ship Resolute. to her majes-
tvs service-and for the purchase OF said
ship and appurtenances, as aforesaid the
sum of $4,000, or SO much thereof as
may be required, is hereby appropriat ed,
to be paid out of any money in the Treas
ury not otherwise appropriated.
The final scene in the strange drama of
the Resolute was the formal presentation
of the ship to the Queen of England on
the part of this government. The pres
entation was delayed no less than 400
days after the discovery or recovery of
the ship by Capt. Buddington, owing TO
various causes some avoidable and 9th
ers of an accidental nature. The 18th
of November 1856, the Resolute, in eX-
cellent trim after her repairs, set sail. and
arrived near Cowes December, II. under
the care of Capt. Hartstein of the United
States Navy. Sir George Seymour. naval
commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, made
arrangements for a royal visit to the
recovered ship.
The queen. the prince consort, the Prince