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Return Of The Arctic Expedition.
RETURN OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION .
A Freemasons will be glad to hear of the return of the Arctic Expedition in safety , and we shall all be pleased to think that our gallant countrymen will spend their well-earned Christmas holiday amid those who specially love and care for
them . Captain Nares , with the Alert , arrived at Valentia on the 27 th , and the Discovery , Captain Stephenson , reached Queenstown ( where both vessels met ) on the Sunday following . The Expedition has been very successful
in many points , and its reports are most interesting and important . They have lost their good ; interpreter , Neil Peterser , by frost-bite ; Gunner , George Porter , Alert ; and James Hand and Charles Paulseamen of the Discovery , through
, scurvy . We may well recollect amid our rejoicing , the many who will mourn for some who come not back , whose faces they will no more see .
It is stated that the approach to the North Pole is impracticable . The Expedition which sailed on the 20 th of May last , wintered in S 2 . 87 cleg . N . L ., and the sledging parties reached 83 ° 20 min . N . L ., where they planted the British flag , a degree of N . latitude further than has ever been achieved .
The gallant little Austrian Expedition , we are reminded , reached 82 degrees N . L ., and sighted 83 , and the present Expedition passed Sir Edward Parry ' s and Sir James boss ' s furthest point in 1827 , using the Union flag they then left Sir Edward
. Parry ' s furthest point was 82 . 45 . The " Times" well sums up the actual facts established by this latest Expedition of our gallant sailors : —
The Expedition is said to have experienced a temperature of no less than 104 degrees below freezing point , and the ice at the point where the Alert wintered reached a thickness of 150 or even 200 feet . It was hoped the sledges might have advanced as much as about ten miles a day , out the ice proved so rough that it cost a errible strugg le to advance even one mile
a day . The Pole , it would thus seem , is surrounded by ice of such thickness and r-oughness , and of such extent , that the hope of reaching it must be finally abandoned . A journey of 400 miles in these regions at the rate of a mile a clay , and that only at the cost of a ' terrible struggle '
, is , of course , not to be dreamt of . Whether or not , as has boon supposed , a Central Polar Sea exists , it is at least inaccessible , and if there is " no land to Northward , " we must conclude that a monstrous barrier of ice bars all further
advance . This , of itself , is a great discovery . " And we quite agree with the " Times , " that the fust impulse of the public will be , to render due honour to the endurance , and at the same time the skill and prudencewhich have conducted the
Expedi-, tion to so satisfactory an issue . More severe work , and more trying to the moral as well as to the physical qualities of the crews , could hardly be conceived . It tells well for commanders and crews alike , that both officers and men are said to speak in
unmeasured praise of Captain Nares . When the Commander of such an Expedition returns with the unqualified confidence of his officers and crows , we may be sure that good work has been clone on all hands . There seems every reason to believe that this last Arctic Expedition will sustain the renown hitherto acquired by
English seaman in the Polar beas , and it will not be the least of its merits if it has rendered any further adventure of the same kind unnecessary . The following paragraphs taken from the notes , are both very interesting and very affecting : —
" When at Polaris Bay Captain Stephenson hoisted tho American ensign and fired a salute , as a brass tablet which he and Captain Nares had prepared in England , was fixed on Hall ' s grave . The plate bore the following inscription : — " Sacred
to the memory of Captain C . F . Hall , of the U . S . ship Polaris , who sacrificed his life in the advancement of science on November 8 , 1871 . " This tablet has been erected by the British Polar Expedition , of 1875 , who , following in his footsteps , have profited by his experience . The return journeys were . therefore a prolonged strugg le homewards of gradually
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Return Of The Arctic Expedition.
RETURN OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION .
A Freemasons will be glad to hear of the return of the Arctic Expedition in safety , and we shall all be pleased to think that our gallant countrymen will spend their well-earned Christmas holiday amid those who specially love and care for
them . Captain Nares , with the Alert , arrived at Valentia on the 27 th , and the Discovery , Captain Stephenson , reached Queenstown ( where both vessels met ) on the Sunday following . The Expedition has been very successful
in many points , and its reports are most interesting and important . They have lost their good ; interpreter , Neil Peterser , by frost-bite ; Gunner , George Porter , Alert ; and James Hand and Charles Paulseamen of the Discovery , through
, scurvy . We may well recollect amid our rejoicing , the many who will mourn for some who come not back , whose faces they will no more see .
It is stated that the approach to the North Pole is impracticable . The Expedition which sailed on the 20 th of May last , wintered in S 2 . 87 cleg . N . L ., and the sledging parties reached 83 ° 20 min . N . L ., where they planted the British flag , a degree of N . latitude further than has ever been achieved .
The gallant little Austrian Expedition , we are reminded , reached 82 degrees N . L ., and sighted 83 , and the present Expedition passed Sir Edward Parry ' s and Sir James boss ' s furthest point in 1827 , using the Union flag they then left Sir Edward
. Parry ' s furthest point was 82 . 45 . The " Times" well sums up the actual facts established by this latest Expedition of our gallant sailors : —
The Expedition is said to have experienced a temperature of no less than 104 degrees below freezing point , and the ice at the point where the Alert wintered reached a thickness of 150 or even 200 feet . It was hoped the sledges might have advanced as much as about ten miles a day , out the ice proved so rough that it cost a errible strugg le to advance even one mile
a day . The Pole , it would thus seem , is surrounded by ice of such thickness and r-oughness , and of such extent , that the hope of reaching it must be finally abandoned . A journey of 400 miles in these regions at the rate of a mile a clay , and that only at the cost of a ' terrible struggle '
, is , of course , not to be dreamt of . Whether or not , as has boon supposed , a Central Polar Sea exists , it is at least inaccessible , and if there is " no land to Northward , " we must conclude that a monstrous barrier of ice bars all further
advance . This , of itself , is a great discovery . " And we quite agree with the " Times , " that the fust impulse of the public will be , to render due honour to the endurance , and at the same time the skill and prudencewhich have conducted the
Expedi-, tion to so satisfactory an issue . More severe work , and more trying to the moral as well as to the physical qualities of the crews , could hardly be conceived . It tells well for commanders and crews alike , that both officers and men are said to speak in
unmeasured praise of Captain Nares . When the Commander of such an Expedition returns with the unqualified confidence of his officers and crows , we may be sure that good work has been clone on all hands . There seems every reason to believe that this last Arctic Expedition will sustain the renown hitherto acquired by
English seaman in the Polar beas , and it will not be the least of its merits if it has rendered any further adventure of the same kind unnecessary . The following paragraphs taken from the notes , are both very interesting and very affecting : —
" When at Polaris Bay Captain Stephenson hoisted tho American ensign and fired a salute , as a brass tablet which he and Captain Nares had prepared in England , was fixed on Hall ' s grave . The plate bore the following inscription : — " Sacred
to the memory of Captain C . F . Hall , of the U . S . ship Polaris , who sacrificed his life in the advancement of science on November 8 , 1871 . " This tablet has been erected by the British Polar Expedition , of 1875 , who , following in his footsteps , have profited by his experience . The return journeys were . therefore a prolonged strugg le homewards of gradually