Year: 1873

who were present AT the Durlal Will ior-
get the deeply affecting scene. Old sail
ors, whose faces had been bronzed by
summer suns and frozen in Arctic seas,
wept aloud Capt. Hall was universally
beloved and his death, at the time when
the enterprise promised so hopefully, was
felt by his survivors to be an irretrievable
loss. Those thoughts were uppermost
in the minds of all, and when the funer-
al party returned to the ship there was a
hushed silence attending the perform
ance of every duty.


OTHER STATEMENTS.


Esquimaux Joe says that Captain
Buddington was quarreling all the time,
and speaks in general appreciation of
him. He Gays, also, that Captain Hall
was poisoned, and that the latter so ex.
pressed himself to him. The prevailing
expression among the unfortunate 10
who were left behind was that Budding
ton had wllfully abandoned them to
their fate. He had been anticipating
the breaking up of the ice for some time,
and if he had wished to have Tyson and
his companions on board, he could easi-
| ly have represented matters to them in
such light that they would not have
ventured TO be absent at so critical a
iuncture. But no such intimation was
given to the men ON the ice. The vessel
did not drift away so suddenly that the
men could not have been rescued from
their periIous position. Mr.. Heron says:
| made rush for the vessel and sung out
for line, but they would not give me
one. Chester and Buddington were stand
ing on the gaEgway and could have
thrown me one; / was with four others
on piece of ice that had provisions on it.
1t cracked off and went adrift we got
back to the main foe in scow or boat,
which sunk under one of the men. but
we all got safely back"


TYsoN's OPINION OF BUDDINGToN.


Tyson says: 81 could have gotaboard
the vessel that night and been there now
but would not leave the women and chill
dren. My duty was on the ice. thought
he would get back to US next day, which
he could have done. The breaking away
was caused by the foe to which the ship
was fastened, drifting in between the
land and some icebergs that were jammed
The jam broke up the foe and the vessel
broke away. 1t was about nine or ten
o'clock in the night. The temperature


was about zero.


That morning it had been 10 above


We did save more than one-tenth of the


provisions that were on the ice. Capt
Tyson thinks the ill-feeling and bad de
signs of Buddington and few others
who were his accomplices, had continued


from the first, on account of Captain


Halls determination to 60 as far north
as possible, and Buddington's determine


ton, from fear, or whatever cause ht
, should not. After Halls death, most o
the others were in favor of continuing
and pushing north, and Tyson says tha


Buddington several times expressed hi
determination to send them Tyson anC
, his party on the road to hell as soon a!


opportunity. He characterizes Budding


ton as great scoundrel, and declares


that he purposely abandoned them t.
destruction. He gives Myers the char
acter of being energetic end qualified il
his department, but he thinks he wa
not sufficiently aware of the condition o
affairs at the time of the separation, an,
the possibility of getting rescued then
to be able to give any opinion upon ii


The Germans, according to bis account


ruled the ship after Captain Halls death


and there was neither law nor system OIL
, board, every one working entirely on hi
own account. Bessel and Bryant wer
anxious to go as far north as possible
Myers had worked hard and lost all hi
: labor.