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II iffiUi M»M««ndbr Froi THE CENTURY MAGAzInI CONTENTS FOR MAY i88« „ ^^^»^3rx?« ,rr^ ■'""^-^' '^'«^-- °-^- 52 Bi' • / •, Charlotte FUke Sates The Bostonians. IV. • • • incidents of the Battlft of ManaaaAa /m -^"^^ ^<»»<^f Cheney Th"e"s3'^?^i^^pg2^!-^--- RecoUectioni cf a Private. IV " »v ^ l. F«nk«,.^, ^ «,^^ ^ ^ j, ^^^ ^ ^ 7^?dSl^1??^?r^7J.« ^^^^^ of Seven Pines: '^'"'^^ ^' GV,« . . , Memoranda onthe^ivirWar *"■* ^ "'"'^ ^•"«'- V Co -^ ^WW a SUdman . . ^w»w Jackson C. I^ Craneh ..." (^^^fte de Forest Bru^h \ ■ft. C. Bunuor ... I '■Henry James . T. T. Afunger i^^Cj^S?' '■ ^'«'«"' ^^s^^if^'r^^^^^'^^i'^-^^i.i^u^js?;-^^^,^^ Gun-boat Taybror T^ier l^^x^xk. Gen. Adam B ed by due Union Lm A. Lampman Mark Twain ' ) /»//^ ^^l-^ "*' Oar National Defenses ^ - fP ^"^ . . . General Sam Houston: A Correction BRIC-A-BRAC. Cameron's Her4 . To Spring .....:.:; A Sea Song In the German Unspoken ■t. o. Irrry ... Ideut..Q,m. C. F. Goodrkh Alexander Hynds .... E- W. KembU Uncle Esek AHce WeUington Rollhts ;, J. A, Macon .... Stanley Wood Charles W. Coletnan, Jr. Georee Birdseye THE CfiNTUBI CO. M Bart 17tt 8tr««t m.. ^ «w I7tt Street (UbIob Squre), Hew-Tork, IT. jl ^•^Sm,. i,. V- ? ZINE f ^ imaZ/ey Froi se GreyhouBd— 1 ie Safes rat Brush rOSS • • » ^ McOfUaH Errata. ^ !*w« . . . M Club. "osvenor Geodrkh . Rollins nan, JrA in the PiCMnt uabMiNMiorl lotiieovwsfbrT W (O us in 1 ^•Tork, h/ GREELY AT CAPE SAIUNE. 77 w ^ Harlotu ^'heney . . . Imbodett . i"' Johnston . /. W. EvaiM, Min K. C. Atirood ant Not from consciousness only. — knowing ceasing cry of the conscious ( reature for the ourselves to he what we are, — but out of the Creator, hy the .ispiration after perfection, hy mystery of ourselves, may we draw tliis sul)- the pressure of evil and l)v the weight of sor- lime hope; for we are correlated not only to row, |)enctraies the realms beyond, knowing the known, but to the unknown. The spirit there must be meaning and j)urpose and end transcends the visible, and by dream, by for the mystery that it is. vision, by inextinguishable tlesire, by the un- 7'. '/'. Mia/C' ': C.RKKLY Al' ( APK SAHIXK NOTKS 1!V A MKMIiKK oK I UK KI.I.II.1 KXI'I DITION. I^ARI.V in the morning of June i8, 1884, > the (ireely Relief ships Thetis and Bfar, ill company with the whalers Aurora and Wolf^ passed the last floe in Melville Hay , and pushed into the " North Water " towards ', Cape York. From (lodhavn to Hare Island, among the bergs off the Waigit, at L'per- navik, through the island ])assages to Kingi- tek, in the pa' wo* ,.>^ l\J)j ''''<;'" -J .r"riihl)h,c,'e, known also as the Land ice. and varying in widtli from one to fifty miles. 'I'he power of tide and current silently moves the Middle Pack from and towards this Land Ice, leaving a narrow strip of open water be- tween them, known to Arctic cruisers as "a lead." At times the leads are a mile in width, oftener but a hundred yards, and, at times, barely as wide as the ship. It was through these narrow channels that the Relief S(|uad- ron had picked its way. using steam to push the ice aside and torpetloes to widen the path, when the leads were obstructetl or narrowed. The reward of twenty-five thousand dollars that Congress had offered for the first infor- mation of (Ireely had incited the whalers to take riiiks that they otherwise would have shunned. They had ex|)ressed a determina- tion to strive for it, and were ever ontthe alert for a chance to creep northward. The Relief Scpiadron was determined, on its part, that the whalers should not secure the first information, and were equally zealous in push- ing northward. It was this rivalry (a friendly •one, for our relations with the whaling cap- tains were of the pleasantest nature) that hur- ried us across Melville Hay and brought us together within sight of Cape York. It had been thought possible that (ireely or an ad- vance party might be there. In fact, a story was current, which a native from that place had told one of the whaling captains, of a white man who had come to him for food, offering a gun in exchange. On the remote chance of this being true, the Relief Squad- ron hoisted flags at each mast-head, in order that any i)arty on shore might distinguish the United States ships from the others. Thus decorated, we raced across the North Water, each vessel straining eveiy power to be the first at Cape York. My morning watch called me to the *• Crow's Nest." The officer whom 1 was to relieve met me at the cross-trees, and de- scrilted Mic situation in a few words. " The ships cheered the North Water when they passed the floe," he said; •' the Bear is racing the Wolf for the cai)e ; a search party is to land at once and explore the coast, (iood- morning.'' For the Crow's Nest, imagine a stoutly built barrel nearly six feet high and three feet in diameter, bound with heavy iron hooi)s, a seat and two foot-rests on the insi. A sle with an ellii)tical opening in the bottom lar.»r Anir enough to admit your .shoulders with a squci " ^"* and when you have passed in, closed witi,'*'!*-" ^^ hinged lid. A buggy-top arrangement ' 1^ ^^ |)oses the wind and snow, and a light circu In '\ railing shoulderefi out from the upper eiinin^'l' affords a rest for the outer end of the h • ^^po telescope. 'Lhe outsido is painted bla( k. ;iiftcr tli it is secured with stout iron bands to the m;i » t<^' ^ head, one hundred an(t ten feet above t'*^*'" water's edge. Here the captain, j)ilot or oi A w( cer of the deck sits and directs the cour^ V-\w\ of the ship by a system of signals to the nii***^ '• at the wheel. When stopped by the irr, '■it'i ^ lookout spends his watch with an eye at tiU* 'jf telescope, searching in all directions for a leaO^y '< I mounted the la..t ladder and rapped if^*^ ^" the lid. Captain Schley, by means of a sni. •***''> line, jmlled up the lid, stepping on the tv^ari"''! foot-rests to permit me to enter. I squee/UQ'^ t* through, and closed the lid again. It wa^ 'l**'*-'''^ tight fit for two persons, so I sat on the ed:'*"'' ' and leaned out on the railing for suppor"* .^'''-' Before me lay Cape York, a rugged headlan^***^'^' sean. jd with white lines of snow and ice. I»duce contour, seen as we approached, was regul.'MBid. as we were too far away to see the deep r Meai vines that scarred its surface or to notice th^' '''■ shadows filled in the jagged outline. To i!»e floe right was a bay, smooth and shining with i'tach 1 covering of white; high hills encircled it, tin™ '^'^ tops glistening with icy caps ; here and thcP*" ^ a glacier pushed its way through a ravin '^v^^' and a heavy mist veiled the valleys. Fartli^*^'"! to the right the hills faded in the gray of d;ff t° tant rock and ice. Stretching from the Ca;' "'V to the left was a white thread that told of tl">n*'^ floe edge ; over it hung the hazy gray of t:'*"'"''' " ice-blink," — the warning of what lay befo:^ '^•'^I us. Toward this floe edge, at the foot of Ca]'^ P^ York, we were steaming, the Bear ahea^®^"^' close behind her the whaling steamer /f'( '*P^'^' then her mate the Aurora, and finally (i.> »'!> the roast together." iptain, pilot orot A word in explanation: From Cape "''ork directs the cour^ I^'f^'^'^on Island there are two routes, one signals to the ni,l<*^" '" -^hnre, the other up the center of )ped by the i(x-. milh Sound. The whalers could have slipped with an eve at t u* *'' sight to the westwarri, liound appar- lirections for a le;.'>fly *'"■ l-ancaster Sound, and then could ler and rapped i***^ turned up this middle passage, and gone )y means of a .sni. >•**''> '•' l-ittleton Island while we were tepping on the tv^aJining the coast, which it was ourbounden [) enter. I souee/Uty to do. It was a f|uestion with the lid again. It was 'hale*rs wnciher to try for the $25,000 re- io I .sat on the ed:'*'*^' "•■ '^^e advantage of their early arrival railing for support .t'^«-' fishing-grounds. I'he reward was , a rugged headlanarty dragging their boat toward the aps ; here and thc-P*" water immediately ot^" the Cape. The ^ through a raviiv^^^i'^p'y t^"*"'i'-'^l her nose to the ice, as if the valleys. Farth'*l*ting the headland, then turned, and was d in the gray of d ff to the westward. The Brar steamed out hing from the Ca' the eastward and tried u narrow lead that read that told of ti''®"*'^^"*' to carry her closer in shore. 1"he the hazy gray of \;\urora, to our surprise, lowered a boat, and »g of what lay befo:^' ^^'^Ptain was rowed toward us. While he ;, at the foot of Cai'** pulling over to us, the captain and I de- le lirar .ohpivCCdcd from the cro' nest. 1 welcomed g, the Bear ahea aling steamer [/'.'•ft'Tin Fairweather, a red-faced, honest- ora and finally (,,Hl»ing Scotchman, as he came over the side, e distance from ti'**^ *^''^'*^'"t*^<^l him to Captain Schley. "There jrhaps a mile. Ea>e« v^'tir i)ath, Cajmiin," the whaler said: :her's wake and t; J^e^'P 'lose to the land I Mine lies yonder," th the crews exciii.ca^ learn something .an that had halted for some reason, ihe word came down from the nest: "There is a native with him!" .Ml glasses were at once turned ujion the jtarty. We could see the dory hauled up on the Hoe, and the men gathered about a native, who stood beside his sled in a frightened, undecided attitude. In a few moments the Thetis was near them. Colwell reported that he had learned by signs that no whi.e men were in the neighborhood. The native was (juestioned again, and fed ; we loaded his sledge with a generous sujiply of salt meat and bread, and then allowed him to go. He snapped his whip to arouse his sleeping team of dogs, untangled their traces, started them off on a good galloj), then sprang upon his sledge and disapj)eared behind the hummocks. We started northward again, having taken on Colwell and his party, and kei)t close to the shore. We reached Conical Rock at three in the afternoon, and de])osited a record on its western end. Arctic ])Ostal arrangements require the corresjiondent to seal his letter in a bottle and then place it in a cone-shaped ])ile of rocks on some prominent cliff or ])eak. It is customary to j)lant a flag or a stick in the top of the cone, so as to attract the atten- tion of ])assing shijis. This is what is known as a cairn. When provisions are stored under a ])ile of rocks, it is called a eaehe. An attem])t to find a lead at midnight re- suited in failure, and we ])Ut back to our old moorings. .\t noon of the 19th we tried again, and with great difficulty fi)rced our way through the heavy but soft ice that lay off the Petowik (dacier and Cape Atholl. Midnight found us at Wolstenholme Island, where we left a record, and then visited Saunders' Island. There the natives knew nothing of white men, save a story, more or less legendary, that was su])pose bling had grown monotonous; but still tihe t";) //<■(//- did not tome. A gale was tlireatenin.»ecbt 1 so it was decided to run over to Cape Sabiniad br The time for starting was set at i v. m. Su;iortheil day, the 22(1. A record was left on the tiinagin-i of Mcdary Island, directing the /vy/zto coniiet-wor over at once ; the fires were sjjread, and the lin'reqi'i-'" that held us to the berg was singled ; we werlt was I ready to start. Two men had obtained periard ir missi(m to pick up the bodies of some (luckc»i"> ^ that were seen on the ice-foot on Littletoifrom its Island. They were rciurning in the dcrytht <>'• sculling across the mouth of the narrow chanReathul nel, when one of them suddenly shouted and u\i "There's the Jirar.'" The excitement war pla ovei fore sho reci GREl'.l.Y AT CAPE SAIUNE. 8t nd, and wc v i-tmf ddwii ihe liairli, '• Mr. Taunt and Mr. -sound was ntMrlarlow. yon arc wanted for duty." \Ve at oraMc, thougli unci" went on (k'( k. laimt was ilircctt'cl to , nesting, and ranakc .i |)artv of men and \ isit tlie < aim on f>iis; luit still ilheiopof iVevoort Island; i to visit Stalk- ' "as tlireatenin.ieciit island, i'he rise ami f;dl of the tide LT to ('aj)c' Sahiiiiad iiroken up the tloe l)a',yf/to eoniiet-work of tide (hannels, over whi(h we had >read,and the lin recjuently to terry (uirselves on takes of i< e. •Singled; we werit was two miles to the islaml, and an hour's 3d obtained penard tramping. .\s we a|)proaihed it, the s of some duekctirn a|)peared with something projec ting foot on lattletofrom its to]), tl);it stru( k me as little resembling "K Jn the dcrythe oar 1 was tolil had been left there. the narrow cha'i Reaching the icefoot, we hurried across it Idenly shouted and up the smooth sides of the island, in the t'xntement warpla«e of the oar was a long rustv tin ease — I so I mounted n-I knew that it must belong to Creely. M\ yc three minutevparty hunted about the rocks, and soon dis- i)lack nest at thccovered a bottle, which they brought to me. crept over thi I broke it eagerly, only to tind that it contained :r mainmast and a rei ord left by Captain Ste|)henson of the t-'nsign and pen discovery in 1875. indorsed by iJeebe in the )nd doubt that it A^//////^ 1S82, 'and by (iarlington. 1S83. lie fast. Captain Indorsing on it the visit of the expedition of t'd, and returneriing them to a higher point. .\ few tr;ices of moss and li( hens were the onlv relief to thel)arren rock; a few ])apers ( ontainir.g tea, a ( anvas t over that had |»robably been f)n the record bottle, some piei es of the gunwale of a boat with fire-charred ends gave evidence of previous visitors to the spot. I disjiatc hed my men with the smaller boxes, and then visilt d the hill again to wattli the ship. 'Ihe /vv?/- was about to leave for the (Ireely t ani|), and the " general recall" was thing from the mast-head for me, so I le't the remainder of the re( oros and hurried back across the tloe. Several times I fell in up to my waist; oik e u|) to my neck, and often jimiped as the tloe was sinking be- neath me. It was an exciting time, but I was nerved with the prospects of the next few hours. I reached the ship, changed my ( lothes, and was on deck again just as the ship was rounding the Cape and standing up for the (Ireely cam]). Lieutenant Sebree was on the bridge, and I joined him. I learned that Taunt had found a |)ai)er in his cairn, written by (Ireely himself, dated October 21, 1S83, which read as follows : " My jxirty is now j)ermanently in camj) on the west side of a small nee k of land which connects the Wreck Cache Cove and the one to its west, distant about etjually from Cajie Sabine and Cocked Hat Island. .Ml well." This he sent to Cap- tain Schley by one of his men, who reached the shi]) about ten minutes before my mes- sage was signaled. Cajitain Schley at once went on board the Hear, leaving the Thetis to collect the detailed parties. thi: rf.scue. As SOON as the shijis reached Payer Har- bor, Lieutenant Colwell was directed to take the Bear's steam-launch and visit the \\'reck Cache, left by the Proteus in July, 1883. He was one of the officers of the unfortunate I^oteus expedition, and knew the exact loca- tion of the cache that was built before the retreat of its survivors. '1 he launch had been supjjlied with j)rovisions and water for the u^e of her crew, and had started for Cape Sabine, when a hail from the Bear recalled him. 'I'aunt's messenger had arrived and told of the location of (Ireely's camp. Beef tea, milk, crackers, an alcohol stove, blankets, etc., were hastily thrown in the launch, and he started again, taking with him Chief Engineer Lowe and the two ice-pilots. He was in- structed to find out the condition of the party, and tell them that relief was at hand. The Bear followed them in a few moments. f 82 a RE ELY AT CAPE SAHINE. I' ' I I'hc launch wliistlctl frf(|uently as she steamed alonj,', and we knew afterwards that the somul was heard l)y tliose who lay in the tent, wliich was partly hhjwn df)wn. Hraiiiard and I. on},' succeeded in ( reepin^' out from under its fold;-, and c:rasvled to the top of a Iiill near hy, from which was visible the ( oast towards Cape Sa!)ine. At first nothing was seen hy them ; and IJrainard returned to tiie tent, tellin}^ by the silent despair c-f his face that " t! jre was no hope." I'he survivors dis- cussed the i)robai)le cause of the noise, and decided that it was the wind blowing over the edge of a tin can. Meanwhile Long crept higher uj) the hill and watched atten- tively in the direction from which the sonn rCMM t »ign haig, oi allowing only the smallest quantities to -^^X 1 given at a time. The sailors re(|uired tn ^jjd < watched. With their pockets full of bri^mte and open cans of pemmican in their h.iiieard they would feed the poor fellows surrc] ppea tiously. Their hearts were larger than tli^eir judgment and experience. As soon as oivonl and system were attained. Captain Schl,usht,' directed Colwell to signal to the Thetis :7he v the photographer, for Doctor Green, niirjoun .'onn ;ered crag vistfi men, blankets, food, etc. ON THE " THETIS." Sebree and I had speculated upon to be possibilities of the nex' !^our, but litvhe p t^^^m^^^mji^mmm^^'- ! liREEI.y AT CAPIi SAIUXE. anHLil of till' horrilik- tragoly that was t( * — ' ' "- — '■" Mil th fs. It was said rescuers if we \ ■ i ^ .u ,.;„„ . I I .1 revealid. Some mie was seen on the ite- CMiK tol.l that we >j ,j^„,,,„j,. , ran forwanl to rea.l it, hut had hej^iin Ills iiu'ss.ijje, ami I only ;^ot folliiwin); : '• //nr/ow ?.'/'/// /■/iii/<>,^rtt/ '■^■'" 'i--'' I'l^" •'''i"'"^"- '^"'^*-' '"'•'^^^ ^^^'■^' • ^'" > "^^^' r 14 ' "''^" '^ "':ure(i to the ice fuot in the (juiet of a little house, and Tcci. "«-"reachcd(^. _^,„, „.^. |,„„i^,,| .^^ Cami) flav. Shoul- , an. poured a ^ ^.^^ , .t^^ted for the lent. A ' hTs co7 ] .'''^«r«reps farther an.l 1 n,et I're.leric ks, one Vl J fi '"^'7^ the survivors, who was strong enough to ■ die i*!! T' ^^'M 1** '" ^'''■" '"'''^'^- ^^ ''''^''" '^■''''' '''■■'"''*-'' "'^1' '< inn ''*''''*^r'i rown over his head an.l wrapped ah.>ut his mtluen.eofthisno^i^i^^^rs. A sailor supporte.l hnn on cither •ituation to mc attj_ it- j 111 .1 r „ 1 1 ■ I 1.1, • 1** "'■'' '"^i*'' ^^as black With dirt, and his .11 u /■ ^^'^'•'" '«? glcameil with the excitement of relief. idhehad hutanlHhat to sav to him I did not know. iJcath had me l)y he commonplace •' How are you, old fel- gentlemen came ^p - ^.jj^i,^.,, ,,„. ^^ply, " Oh, 1 am all right"; ead was his de.s< r.,^ 1 j,,^^,^^.fi ,„, Turning a little to the left, \ f .k" ^'"■^^^'^•' le tent . ame in view. To my right, stretched Ln ot the tent as iij^ q,, j,,^. snow-drift, lay one of the dead. and set jjots of ivfig f^f^^. ^.-as covered with a woolen hood, mg, earned Brain jg 1,^,1^. ^^ith dirtv dnthes. Hurrving on le ot the tent .i^gt ^ little tire, over which a iiot of milk was i^^^^ Si^'""'"' ^ '-''arming. I came to the tent. One i)oIe was a the />.- (Ireely, whom ! re.ogni/ed by his glas.ses, 1 pressed his hand. .\ greeting to the other two, .ind I retiirne.l to ni\ (.imera to take thi- |il.ite 1 h i.l so often pi.ture.l t.i nivself : '• 'ihe meeting with (Ireelv I" 11. )w .lifiirent it was from the ideal pu ture, only my own imaginaiion .an kn.iw. Strewn about the ground were eniptv cans, a liar.)meter case, thronometer boxes, a gun, .lid (lothes. valuable meteomlogi. .d instru- ments, siiowing the inditteren. e ihey felt for anything that was n.)t food or fuel. The .lil'li. ulties in the way of a su. . esshil ph.)to- gr.ipli at II I'. M. in the twilight of an Arctic evening were innumerable, but there was no time to be lost ; so I ma.lc the ixposiiie with many misgivings as to its results. l!ut four plates remained in my hol.lers. Two .)f these 1 dev.>ted to the tent, one to the winter- louse, and f)ne to the graves. W hilc 1 was absent for tlnse last two views, (ireely and his men \.u wrapped in blankets, |ila(e.l on stret((ir. The living having iieen attended to, our next duty lay with the deail. Placing my camera on the rocks near the tent, I joined Captain J'.mory and Cobvell, who, with a ])arty of men, had been directed to disinter the bodies. On a piece .)f canvas (ut from the tent 1 drew a .liagram of the graves, numbering each one from the right facing their heads. This pre.aution was ne. essary, in order to avoid any confusion in identifying the remains. \\'ith a memorandum of the order in which they had 'oeen buried, the name of each one could be apjicnded tt) iis number. By the aid of tin cans and dishes as implements, each body was then uncov- ereii'/ ae ni ' - - -,aJ-B'i-ed.-(iiiisiiuii, Ai.iilMh ^ >.^''\\V\\i' 1"'- ■,'-^ ; - - ■-i-i|:*'"»-'''"i«'«l. April Sllh > . \\\\V», »'^ 'V ■cV •','/'> \'.--~--r.^Ma\i\vn, Mny.Miil , .' ' ,\\\\\\rfi r _^„, ■-••.V'^-.;.-::.i-SISle«.-ll.ApillUlii ^ A^\-v\\\\?V '* *^^ ,^;^^v; died When the dead had been placed on the deck and covered with a tarpauhn, we steamed back to Cape Sabine, and made fast to the floe about 3:30 in the morning. A httle later I was dispatched to my cairn on Stalknecht Island, and brought back all the records I had left the night before. The Bear revisited Camp Clay and gathered up every vestige of the party that the closest scrutiny could detect. Greely lay in his bunk and talked fluently all through the night. The officers relieved one another in telling him of the events of the past three years, and trying to quiet him. He seemed to realize his nearness to death, and desired to tell all he could about his work, lest some part might be over- looked. His face was emaciated, his cheeks sunken and pale, his form wasted to a shado\v. His hair was long, tangled, and unkempt. As he lay partly on his side with head resting on his left hand, his right hand moving rest- lessly about, one could not look at him un- moved. Had he kept silent, a single glance bespoke the days of misery that lie had passid through; but to hear his low, weak voice telling the incidents of the dark days brought tears to the eyes of many of his lis- teners. CAMP CI- A v. While on my photogMphic tour I took careful note of the surroundings of the tent. ent a "_-,3;.^^-^g^^ . too vhich The site of the camp was on a small prom . • tory, about four miles from Cape Sahi^.' Greely called it Camp Clay, in honor < 1 member of the party, a grandson of He;. Clay, who had come with them to tv ger, and then returned. The high hills Payer Harbor, extending around Cape Sabir. ■^, back of the camp, were nineteen hundred 1' „:u^J high. An ice cap covered their top, overharj .r j-^ ing in many places. In each of the two ravii , on either side of the promontory was a glaci ^ As you faced these hills from the ships,, ^^^ ridge about one hundred to seventy-five k' _ jj high concealed the low level ground of t .^j camp. There were three indentations in t^^j^^ coast : a deep one at the extreme eastern ev £ ^.^ a smaller one a little to the west, in w'li outer the Wreck Cache was built, and then 'inotli^j^jj,^ at the extreme west ; and in this last one t ^^^g boats landed. To the west of the Wre Cache Cove was a small round hill seventy-five feet high. Between it and ridge was a ravine, at the foot of which t.^j^^. steam-launch landed, and up which the fif^^int party ran. The signal-flag was planted ^£JJ^. the eastern end of the ridge. On the ^vc j^^j^^, side and at the foot of the back hills was tlpg^j winter house. Near it was the lake, a d( j, pression in the rocks that caught the vhawin^Y \^ of the glaciers and which supplied the cam^jjjy with water, a hole in the ice being kept opt ^^ for that purpose. The winter house was sit 1 , hous 'W tl ated on the lowest ground of the promontoi tor "*« . l ii il tllMLI i W {rr^^^ I G RE ELY AT CAPE SABIXE. 85 OF CAMP CLAY. m launch iiavlij from boat;- "i/ruphic liiiii nil' neli! _ >%" > /■tf iijiDi , v,\\\\\>lt'3"' y seventeen feet wide, w '" ^"'■'^\^'.\\Vw!'f ■tones each about six "" .<%-§tl'' '***^ ^" ^ \\G\g\ii of thre niM,t c.-^^^N^'j^^^' (^M laid the Neptune's roBi it toward the east there was a gradual iC, tcrminatinfi in a knoll that ran northward id joined the little hill at the Wreck Cache ove. To the left it sloped down to the ~~ lores of the large cove. The tent was on a ludl plateau about three hundred yards east r the winter iiouse, and one hundred yards om the knoll. West of it was a slight ele- ition, perhaps twenty-five feet in height, ^^,. uU sloped down to the lake on one side and *\';)Wards the ridge on the other. It was up 'vu» valley, between this hill and the ridge, - "" lat the relief parties came and went to their v'^x-" /'' ^..- j;^ji' o«ts. The graves were on the knoll to the / .^^ / ^-^^lA** isH. Ihe sight for the winter camp was V" /^^ : ;l0cted because it was near the Wreck Cache, /^ ^ I , , nd because there were jjlenty of small rocks, /..''^ v'' \''/ iC niorraine of the glacier, with which to \ .>\'v\.',(' .uHd their house. .Villi] .Ml, y, AV\\\i';;' The winter house was twenty-five feet long ~ - '-^\\\*.'\^*J?i", y teventeen feet wide, with broad walls made six inches in thickness, three feet. Over the top ^^.^.^ ,^^ — - ---, J whale-boat, upside ,v^5i^?^:^^^^4own, forming a ridge pole ; and their canvas -/=L~=v i'^^^y^ and sails were stretched across this for -^g:^--^^asat . roof. Through the roof were two pipes, v^hich served as chimneys and ventilators, as on a small nroi ^^* whole structure was so low that, from the i from ("a,)e go) ak*> its existence would not have been sus- Clay, in honor '**Cted, were it not for these chimneys; the a grandson of H ''^®^^ ^^^'^ banked up against the walls and on with them to C,^ "cooi, so that it resenil)led a huge drift, i. The hieh hill ''*®'^ than the dwelling-place of twenty-five ? around Cane Sal^' "*'^' ^ '^"^ entrance was toward the high hills, nineteen hundred \\'^ ^^"^ '^ *"""'^^* ^'^^^^ ^*^^ manner of the I-ls- d their top overharl"*"™''^"'^' ^^""^ ^^^""^ ^^'^^ '^'^''^' *'''^ ^"'' '^ achof the tworavii***^^*''^-^^^'"**-'' ^"^^ t;ighteen feet long, roofed nontory was a glaci .« , , lis from the ships.''^??^!' ^^'"^ '^""«- '' „ , , ,- • , d to .seventv fi .--'^t'*"'^'^ w^s a door across the tunnel, divid- levei eroun \ f '°8 '^ into two compartments, .\nolher door J indentations ?n 1**"'"'^'^ >'°" '"^° ^'''^ ''°"'^' '^^'^^"'^ ' ompart- extreme easier .™Wts were necessary, to prevent the inrush lilt, and then anotli' uji ■" u 1 r ■ r .1 'i-i J in this last one t;^™''^ '" '^'^^^ °"*'" ^^'^^^'"'^ 80i»g farther. Ihe west of the Wrel ,1 1 • t!l round hill akyh^^'M "■"''"' :"';' ^'f'^*' '" ^' ,„»„., .-i. J .commissarv. \ door from the 3ver with canvas. Over its outer end a can- \bout eiifht feet from the > the west in I '^^ ^oX'X air when the door was opened. On ilt.and then anotl>'jS"'*«' '' ^'^'^ ^I'stomary to remain a 'ittle wrlule in each one before going farther. 1 he outside corm r made bv the tunnel and the Between it and tr r .1 1 11 - 1 • le foot of -r 1 : ' ti^'n"*-'' nearest the house gave admit compartment -' gave adi rhere were no A iiix ,..k; I "^i""r twice to the i ommissarv. a up which the tir • 1 11 1 .11 ag was nlmt H ^^''^'^^^' '"'"' the only source ot light was an ridee' On'fl ^ /Esquimaux bluober-lamp, which was lighted idge. On the wt le back hills was t about an iiour each day. Into this hovel the vas the lake, a d.P^-^ moved on November . 1883 caught the thawiiur J""^'^^^ > " '^' ""■ " -. c„^..i; , I *i ^I learned tiie following 1 supplied the cam j^ *-. .1 ;„„ k'- „ , ^ days after the rescue, nfL l,T^ '^ °l^^caBed over to the Bear to consult with Doc- nter nou.se was sit^ « 1 i-n 1 r.f fi,-, . tor Ames m regard to Ellison, who was no ot the promontoi' ° Ini'uediatelv after occurred events of which : On June 28, five e rescue. Doctor Green was longer expected to live. On the same day Fredericks ilescribed to me the scenes of Ellison's terrible suffering, and the narrow escape of the four who attempted In bring up the English meat from Cape Isabella, in NovemlJi>;r, 1883. The labor of building the winter house made such an inroad upon the few provisions that were left after their long and perilous retreat from Eort Conger, that when they moved in on November i they had barely one thousand rations left, and were by no means schooled to the reduced allowances, which were necessary, I'nder the circumstances, Greely saw his men grad- ually ilespairing, and becoming physically and mentally weaker, and he decided that some- thing must be done at once or else abandon themselves to the horrible fate that stared them in the face. The English expedition of 1875-6, under the command of Captain Nares, had left a cjuantity of beef", several hun- dred rations, cached at Cai)e Isabella, about thirty-five miles distant from the camp, 'i'his it was determined must be secured. On No- vember 2 Clreely detailed Sergeants Rice and Linn and Privates Ellison and Eredericks to make the attempt. They took a sledge, with sleeping-bags and cooking utensils, alcohol, four ounces of meat, and eight ounces of bread for a daily ration, and a little tea. The weather was about thirty-five degrees below '^ero, the wind biting, and the road over broken tloe and through soft snow-drifts. Traveling was slow, and it was three days before they reached the cache and found the meat. They had left their sleeping-bags antl cooking utensils sev- eral miles back, and traveled the last day with only the sledge and a little tea, intending to eat some of the meat on finding it, and use the barrels for fuel. Loading their sledge, they started to return to their last encamp- ment, full of hope for the future, in view of the glorious life-giving beef which had sur- vived so many Arctic winters. Despite the entreaties of his comrades, Ellison insisted on eating snow. This wet his mittens, which soon froze stiff in the cold wind, and froze his hands also, rhey hurried along, however, Ellison growing weaker and weaker from tlK' pain of his hanils : and when they finally reached their sleepini'-bags, his feet were found to be frozen also. They passed a frightful night, with a tem])erature at thirty degrees below zero, and a sufifering c oinrade who rtHjuired their unre- mitted attentions to prevent his freezing to death. Thev cut oft" his boots and rubbetl his feet for hours, trying to restore the cir- culation. They had to hurry on witii their increased load. Fredericks supjiorting Ellison, while Rice and Linn tugged away at the sledge. This could last but a litde while, for their i 86 G RE ELY AT CAPE SABINE. strength soon gave out and another halt was necessary. The brave fellows devoted them- selves again to their comrade, and when the time came for them to start anew, they had to ( hoose between the life of Ellison or the provisions. Although he begged them to let him die and save their comrades at Camp Clay, brave, heroic man that he was, they deci(led on trying to get him to camp; so they cached the provisions, leaving one of their gims sticking up for a mark. With their light- ened sledge, they struggled on, only to stop again and work on Ellison. Another fearful night. The untold suffering of those hours, who can imagine them ? How vain it is for us to attempt to put ourselves in tiieir places, we who shiver if a door is left open ! cast down in the snow in that bitter piercing cold, their minds half-cra/ed with the thought of the future, suffering the pangs of hunger, and hearing the moans of their suffering compan- ion ! Tying Ellison to the back of the sledge, they struggled on until the failing of Linn warned them that death was certain for all unless they procured relief; so, creeping into their bags again, they sent Rice ahead alone to obtain helj) from Camp Clay. It was twenty-six hours before the relief came in the person of Brainard, who had a little tea, and made some warm soup, and a long time after- ward that Lockwood and Pavy came up. They hauled Ellison into camp, and found that his feet were frozen beyoiul any possible hcpe of restoration, while his fingers and thumbs were gone entirely. Finally hands and feet wont away by natural amputation. A spoon was bound to the stump of one of his arms so he could feeil himself, and he was cared for all through the dark days with a devotion which bespoke their gratitude to one who had undergone terrible sufferings in their behalf. Tlie rare bestowed upon Ellison speaks volumes for the manhood of the party. Rice's tleath occurred during an effort to recover the provisions which had been aban- doned in order to save Ellison. The few stores with which the party commenced the winter were eked out in daily moi'.*>t'iils until April, when tht last crumb was reai-hed. Weak anil exhausted as they were, what was to be done ? There were the abandoned provis- ions of last November some fifteen miles from the camp, down toward Cape Isabella. Who would, who could, go after them ? In the ex- tremity Rice and Fredericks offered to attempt their recovery. It was a perilous feat, this venturing out into the cold with unsteady limbs and aching, stiffeneil joints, to tramp over miles of broken ice and attempt what four men had failed to accomplish when far stronger than they were. But they saw their desperate condition, and felt that the li^iragl their friends in misery depended upon i quj, so they started out, strong in heart ami-j jqI Taking five days' provisions, a sledge. . ^^A and hatchet, they bid adieu to their yentl rades, and lor three days wandered .yj fj unable to find any trace of the cache thi\ jjlsl left not six months before. The snow (j gj covered it up completely, and in therj^jyl spairing tramps back and forth where (J gal thought it ought to be, Rice w as sudi jgonl taken with a hemorrhage of the bowels..jjj died in his companion's arms. Poor Fri»y -A icks! alone with his dead companion, inedJ from his cheerless camp, with no hope ' ,ure covering the coveted meat, laid the boiij. ^A Rice in an ice-made grave, and strufjj ^A again to find the meat. Finally he stagj. into Camp Clay, to greet his anxious < rades with a report that could but a(l their despair. gn^ They remained in the winter house ipon May, 1884, when the thawing of the gl;\e above them compelled a move to ho^s. ground, where they pitched the tent in wiread the survivors were found. One or two thhe p nesses of canvas were spread over the groiith i and on this the sleeping-bags of the 1 ., rise were laid. These sleeping-bags were n.'heir to accommodate two men, and resemlK^eir large moccasin with the hair on the iibut, Ic Could they have been shaken anil aired i)r th day, nothing better could be asked for to stouni in; but, as it was, the condensation of tided breath and the precipitation of the mois:3 gai in the atmosphere froze them to the groiljssen and made them stiff and uncomfortable. 1 hat t ing the day-time they would draw tli ,nd tl selves out far enough to sit up, and hem frost would gather in thick, white massi )ossil the fur, and melt as soon as they slipped 1 hem. again into the bags to sleep, There wa;e88fi warmth save what they got from their bocum. They had nothing to read except the ;prin well-thumbed, torn, and dirty books they i'ood. brought with them, and the scraps of m. vast papers that were wrapped about the ston mA the Wreck Cache. From these scraps tinost learned of the death of President Gartcjoat Daylight had been growing shorter e 'ell i day, and complete darkness shut them nstii early in December, In this condition t.::aup lay day after day, seeing their scanty stori md provisions grow ing less nnd less, knowing i in A each mouthful was hastening the probabili;the )f their eventually starving to death. N'lmiK of the party had washed for nearly ekvand months. The dirt and soot had begriii noti their features. \\'hen asked why they (lid 1 enti wash w hen they had a chance, they re|)lii. the "What was the use?" Greely said he i.sev( iH ice of the cache thi , liefore. The etely, and in thc.,,„ i.T^l?"'^ ^^ here d gave talks on the nature and effects of md their antidotes. A favorite amuse- was to make out the l)ill of fare that sy woulii order wiien home again. Tastes isons Mt ORE ELY AT and felt that the li^,raged the men to give long talks on the ry depended upon i o„°,^., ^f ^\^^,, own countries and states, ^irong m heart ancj to ^^\\ ,i,(. stories of their lives in a sim- visions, a sledge, .straightforward wav, and to recount their Jid adieu to then- ' " , • , ■ ■ i i ■ . rin. I V ventures durmg the various sledguig jour- r "^-V^ wandered .^^ f^om Fort Conger. (Ireely discoursed ■) aDsuhjecls — political, historical, religious, snou (J gcieiuific. The doctor explained the an- *-'''>niy of the bodv , the principles of medicine, --t . .. - . . „ , be, Rice was sud. Iiage of the bowels..; )n's arms. Poor Fn dead companion, I j^;,„;i i^.^ ^^ discussions ; "and so the m' 7 r -i^ 1 ''^ ' •"» •!"<' fla^^ '^'■^'P^ ^^^'"^y ""ti'- ^^'^h return- ^meat, laid the bo.ig daylight, they could again venture out for grave, and stru{.j gg"oit to procure game and gather moss. It. F mally he stag}. "^ ' ^ *= greet his anxious < that could but ad Brainari) was the commissary of the party. ^^ wmter house ipQ„ i^jn^ devolved the task of weighing out ing 01 the gl; jg scanty allowances and guarding the tch \ !"°^*^ ^9 hi<>|ies. Canned food was issued weekly, while J *^n^^ tent in \\iread and pemmican was served out daily. . Une or two thjje party was divided into two messes, each g- ags of the i ,, fjgg ;it si.\ and prepare the morning meal. eping-bags were n:'heir rising was a signal for all to sit up in men, and resembi^eir |,ags and hungrily watch this serving , f ^"' "^^ the in.-ut, lest the temptation should be too great Shaken and aired t,r the cooks to resist. The plates were set ii(i Ue asketi tor to siround, and the bread and meat equally di- condensation of tiided on ea< h. Experience soon ir.ught them itation of the mois;^ gauge tiie plates with great accuracy, but e them to the groiiiggensions arose, and it was finallv arranged 1 uncomfortable. I hat the cooks should do the best they could, y would draw tln.nd then another man was detailed to hand ' to sit up, and CAPE SABINE. 8t sr,RviN(; OUT thk provisions. th I . , . - - hem around without a chance to see any thick, white masscs,oi(rible difference in fhe amount of food on •n as they slipped 1 hem. Long was the best shot, and a suc- • sleep, Ihere \va-:ei||ful hunter; so this duty devolved upon got jrom their bouiim. He tramped many miles during the read except the ^p^g, and added greatly to their supply of uirty books they i bo^. One of their most unfortunate accidents the scraps of ni vftfthe loss of their Es(iuimaux Jens Kdwards, cd about the storc~)n April jotli. The assistance of this man was )m these scraps tlnOBt valuable, for. with his kayak, or native President Gartajoat, he could recover much of the game that rowing shorter c' ell in the water ; besides, he hat! the native kness shut them n»tinct for hunting the seal. His kayak was I this condition t/^aught m tiie newlv formed ice and crushed, ; their scanty storr uid he was drowned. .V bear was killed early ml less, knowing tin April, that required the entire strength of [ling the iJrobabilnthe ])arty to ilrag to cainj), the distance of a ing to death. Ni mile. I'hev ate every panicle of him save hail- ed for nearly ele\ and bone.' (.)fall the birds that they shot, ^^/'t had begrin nothing was wasted that was digestiljle. The ed why they did rentrails were choppetl up for seasoning to hance, they replit the soup. Hrainard was the shrimper. For (-ireely said he ^ seventy days during the spring he made a journey past the graves, and a little beyond the large cove, a distance of a mile, to ex- amine the shrimp-nets. These were gunny- sacks, with hoo])s in their mouths, baited and sunk to the bottom of the bay. As it took twelve to fifteen hundred of tiiese to make a gill, they afforded but little sustenance, espe- cially as they passed through the system un- digested. For food, when all their stores had been eaten, they resorted to the moss and lichens that grew among the rocks, and to a broth made by boiling the sealskin, with which they made or rei)aired their boots. The former contained a small jiercentage of a gelatinous substance, of considerable nutritive t|uality. The latter was cut into small squares as large as a thumb-nail, and boiled more for the oil in them than for any nutriment in the skin itself. In conversation with CJreely one morning, I told him of the generous rations we had left at Littleton Island, and said: " Why, Major, when we were calculating on a ration of four pounds per man, you were doubtless figuring on ounces." Before I could ([ualify my remark, (Ireely exclaimed, in a voice full of feeling, " Ounces ! ounces ! we were reckoning on sixteenths of ounces. Scarcely a thing that was not divided in the ounce ! " He then told me of the pair of steelyards that had been mace out of a piece of wood, with a tin cuj) and cartridges for the balance. Often- times each man's allowance would l)arely cover the hollow of his hand. »ie dwelt on the faithfulness of Piainard, to whom he in- trusted the stores, and who kept the account religiously to the smallest fraction. He related how eaih day's expenditure would be posted, and when the balance was struck at the end of the week, how the book would show less provisions on hand than they actually had in store; how he inferred, how he knew that the devoted Brainard would deny himself, rather than have his .slender stock balance the other way. Such deeds as these, the sacrifices of Rice and Ellison, their care for their helple.rS companion, stand out in glowing contrast to the one black spot that Henry made on this record of heroes. THK (IKAVr.S. Whf.n the first man. Cross, died in Jan- uary, the ([ueslion arose as to the proper pla( e to bur)- him. Many were in favor of sinking him in die lake, reasoning, first, that they would all probably die, and that it mattered little what became of them ; and secondly, that if relief should come, the relief party would not care to carry back the dead bod- ies. In fact, (Ireely exjjressed a wish to Cap- tain Schley that the remains of his men l)e »»f"l..".«(ii'''^"' -v..>- r ~SAl eincUc fnaxm.— J'JB.L dctt y/vood, J*rth cif-^^ Edthr G.vr. «?,*ce, Jls ocCnli BttCt'nr ^fSSisied fry acom/ittT^ sQtff . SintciiaCtoH. Iff ■CLIma.u.U^^ju,. JtJU^xC*. 'ctx, f^ A^U^^ ytca-Jy C^*^ i^ cut <3t«, A^/<'-**-ww-*-«-v^ <^ « '*^V?*' ^ CL^r-CA (<^ C-*»x^-mV-c L A^/%2(<^, ^-^f-LCt^ e^UUf, /Kto «Ouj Jffti <.4 ^c( OMTC^f ^-r^-yyx. A^^^^u, -d«t< S*A^ "^t^U outd^ ytto*^ Ajlcm. a. Otvc< -fijfr ^ Bui 7-j uui ^wai •av€ t: an. ' K..\ M.K ■■,'.. L\f Nr«si^'[.k !K;v7t; at ^\'V: c.^nce*. .an, rain V .m'm^tt*,m^\-<-:mm^^mit^m^--m!i^i^^^'0ip i^^^i ^i ^i;^ GREELY AT CAPE SABINE. So 9, J . '£ y' '•^OF liRKELV'S EXF1.0KATI0N, DRAWN BV J. W. KEDWAV, FUR c-r- u^^U^'CiJU^^urhed. " They died beneath Arctic ■^itju^f^ar/isim," he said. " Arctic desolations wit- 'U^ce^ Oft Off-ttteail$c\ their sufferings, heard their cries of tf ttjk^ij fty .^l^c^lgBdsh. They are buried in Arctic soil ; let ''yU'^%1^ "0-^- (A4^eia lie where they fell. Lock wood told >^i-f->-i^ 'Cfi fliat he wanted to rest forever on the t?" ^-yy^-t^-JLc • ild <>f his work. Why disturb them — why 9a^o^ X)l^■^>tj^^t ^siject their wishes ? " But they decided, after much deliberation, ^^OoG^ bury Cross on the knoll, where most of -^-t ^Oi^ dCClf *Cc^Q bodies were found. This spot was chosen ^i' 9xC '4^1CL*^-^A<,/>^Wlt distance below the surface, and the f-j,a^ .,M.<^ ^Lf-x^j'KW was outlined with small stones. The C^v ^jLe-aJt- CiJ\ her victims received less and less atten- •» n. until finally they were scarcely covered. rainard told ine that he could always dis- Voj.. XX.X.— 9. MOM Ell H S NbW FHVSILAl. GEOtiKAl'HY. BAKNES & CO.; CdVCK*. tinguish Lockwood's grave as he passed to and from the shrimping-ground. He had been buried in an officer's blouse. The but- tons projected above the little mound, and the wind and gravel scoured them so that, as he passed, the sunlight on them would dazzle his eyes. " At first," he said, " it af- fected me deeply to think, as I passed, of the fate of Lockwood, the leader of our little party which carried the Stars and Stripes be- yond the English Jack ; but this feeling soon wore away. We had so many other horrible things to think ^f, I grew indifferent." In- difference to death was a characteristic of the entire party. Starvation blunted their feelings, and doubtless made death welcome to many of them. The first stages were painful ; but there came a time when the suffering gave place to quiet, painless sinking away. Two men would be in the same sleeping-bag ; one would die, and his comrade lie for hours, with the corpse I ■":^X?|5J Si 90 G RE ELY AT CAPE SABINE. besiilc him, too weak to draw tlic dead out for burial. Some were carried to the ice-foot, and left there. Henry was shot (for taking provi.s- ions) and remained where he fell, a little to the left oi the place where the boat.s landed. Two days before we arrived, Schneider's body had been carried to the place where we found it. Their strength gave out, and they could not get him to the ice-foot. Some were buried on the ice in the large cove behind the graves. On many of the bodies we found from eight to eleven suits of clothes. During the seven winter months they had added suit after suit, ;ind when sjjring came they were too weak to take them off. Some had but two or three suits on ; and it is explained by the fact that after a man died they took off his clotlies, if in good condition, for the use of the living, burying him only in the suit next his body. WHY (;REELV UID -NOT CROSS S.MITH SOUND. \x seemed to some of us inexplicable that tireely should have remained ai Cap*: Sabine when he had a boat to get across to Littleton Island, where there were two hundred and sixty rations, and game in abundance. Greely described Smith Sound as a rushing channel, filled with ])ieces of broken floe and berg ; he waited for it to freeze over, — an event which did not ha])pen that winter of all others. As a sailor, I could not help thinking his failure to get across was due to his being a soldier, and the fact that his party was made up of soldiers. Put a sailor in his place, thought I, and with the boat he would have ventured anywhere, so long as he had his shirt for a sail. Tell a sailor that food lay but thirty-five miles south- east of him, that a current set in that direc- tion, and he would have paddled his way juross on a cake of ice with a barrel-stave, be- fore he would have remained where almost cer- tain death awaited him ; he would not have been deterred from making the attemjit, even if it were a choice of deaths. A .sailor would have frozen beneath the thwarts before destroy- ing his boat for fuel. But since my return 1 have talked with Brainard on this subject, and see that my speculations were imjust. He told me of crushing tloes, fierce gales of wind, scenes of the wildest description — all these, he admitted, could have been avoided ; but the real danger lay iiv the fact that, as soon as tlie surface of the sound was still for any length of time, a thin scum of ice formed over it, often an inch or two in ihicknJ Suddenly the whole field would break up iif immense floe-i)ieccs; if the sides of the \\ were not cut through by the shar|) cdgts the ice, it would tloat about, entirely at mercy of wind and current, while they •.noi be utterly powerless to extricate themsil\| The experiences of Lieutenant (lieely Seplemlier, 1883, settle the iiuestion ol practicability of this navigation better til all theories can do. .After abandoning thl laimch eleven miles from land, they were n\ tccn days reaching shore, with daylight to lal itate their movements. 'I'o attempt at thj landing, October ist,thecro.ssing of thissouf after such an experience, would have been iiij than rash. The Arctic night was alreaih I them, young ice was forming, and the movj pack, over which a couple of miles a day niii be made, was being carried by a southerly rent, miles every day, towards Baffin's I5ay| THE RETURN HOME. By early morning of the 23d o" Juj which was Monday, we had started on return, and at 8 o'clock revisited Littlct| Island. Kllison died on July 8, while we werel Disko Harbor. From the day of his renioj to the ship (fifteen days before) the docil had little hope of his recovery. J'he naiJ amputation was not immediately danger| in his reduced and declining condition ; as soon as the blood began to flow, w ith \ return of his digestion, mortification set| and another amputation became ncct^^s: He survived the operation three days. SiJ June 30 he had been threatened with coiig tion of the brain, and thereafter lost his niij While in Disko Harbor I was w alking day near the forecastle, and saw Brainard Icl ing against the ladder and gazing most I tently at the shute in which the galley st rl ings are emptied. I asked him what he gazing at. In a most serious manner I turned to me and said : " 1 have seen enoJ good food thrown away since I have stq here to have saved the lives of our nineti dead." And so it was that, in the enjoyiiij of plenty and a fair run of luck, we reacff St. Johns, Newfoundland, on Thursday, 17, and started the news of the expediti flying over the telegraph-wires of the civili| world. Charles H. Harlow. Eiisigir U. S. ; i^^'ny-',;.,--" w^, ii«!Sffl RN HOME. 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