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1st Lieut 7th Cav appended and marked Arctic arrived August barrel bergs boats breeze Brevoort island cache cairn Cape Hawks Cape Sabine Cape York Captain Pike Carey island Chief Signal Officer chronometers coal coast Commander Wildes Conger crew depot dingy Disco E. A. GARLINGTON Elborg endeavor Eskimo feet fifty rations fjord floe Godhavn Governor Greenland hauled heavy hundred icebergs instructions J. C. Colwell July Kennedy channel Lady Franklin bay land Lieutenant Colwell LIEUTENANT GARLINGTON Lieutenant Greely Life-boat cove Littleton island Melville bay miles Nares Newfoundland night northward oars open water pack Pandora harbor possible Proteus provisions pulled RELIEF EXPEDITION remain rocks sail to light Saint John's secured settlement ship ship's shore sight sledge Smith sound snow Sofia southward and eastward steamer stopped supplies thick U. S. Army U. S. Navy Upernavik vessel weather whale-boat wind Yantic
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Page 32 - ... (the act of God, the Queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation of whatever nature and kind soever excepted) unto or to assigns freight for the said goods with primage and average accustomed.
Page 38 - Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward it to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London, with a note of the time and place at which it was found, or, if more convenient, to deliver it for that purpose to the British consul at the nearest port.
Page 32 - Newfoundland currency, at one and one-half per cent, premium, being difference of exchange ; the said party of the second part further agrees that the said...
Page 23 - Land coast would be covered with seven depots of ten days' provisions in less than three hundred miles, not including the two months' supplies at Cape Hawks. The party should then proceed to establish a winter station at Polaris Winter Quarters, Life-boat cove, where their main duty would be to keep their telescopes on Cape Sabine and the land to the northward.
Page 35 - English depot on the small island near Brevoort Island in damaged condition; not visited by me. Cache on Littleton Island; boat at Cape Isabella. All saved from the Proteus. The US steamer Yantic is on her way to Littleton Island, with orders not to enter the ice. A Swedish steamer will try to reach Cape York during this month. I will endeavor to communicate with these vessels at once, and everything within the power of man will be done to rescue the brave men at Fort Conger from their perilous position.
Page 35 - There were five hundred rations of bread, sleeping bags, tea, and a lot of canned goods; no time to classify. This cache is about thirty feet from the water line, and twelve feet above it, on the west side of a little cove under a steep cliff. Rapidly closing ice prevented its being marked by a flagstaff or otherwise; have not been able to land there since. A cache of two hundred and fifty rations in same vicinity, left by the expedition of 1881; visited by me and found in good condition, except...
Page 35 - Littleton island, and a boat at Cape Isabella. All saved from the "Proteus." The US Steamer " Yantic" is on her way to Littleton island with orders not to enter the ice. A Swedish steamer will try to reach Cape York during this month. I will endeavor to communicate with these vessels at once, and everything...
Page 35 - Albert on the afternoon of the 2 jd instant, while attempting to reach Lady Franklin bay. She stood the enormous pressure nobly for a time, but had to finally succumb to this measureless force. The time from her being "beset" to going down was so short that few provisions were saved. A depot was landed from the floe at a point about three miles from the point of Cape Sabine as you turn into Buchanan strait. There were five hundred rations of bread, sleeping bags, tea and a lot of canned goods ; no...
Page 8 - British Expedition under Lieut. Nares.] (Signed) " JB LOCKWOOD, Lieut. USA" Lieut. Garlington examined with his glass the leads in the ice, and says, the pack had broken and open lanes of water had formed, leading across Buchanan Strait along Bache Island and across Princess Marie Bay. At 8 PM the " Proteus " rounded Cape Sabine, and • proceeded through the open leads in the broken ice to within four miles of Cape Albert, where the ship was stopped about 600 yards from the open water, and Capt....
Page 23 - Such action from advice, experience and observation seems to me all that can be done to insure our safety. No deviation from these instructions should be permitted. Latitude of action should not be given to a relief party, who, on a known coast, are searching for men who know their plans and orders.