Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Jamka,Noah Hayes, Seamen. Joe, Esquimaux Interpreter and Hunter; Hannah, Interpreter and Seamstress;Punna, adopted daughter of Joe and Hannah. Dr. Bessels was a German savant, who had acquiredArctic experience in a voyage to Spitzbergen. Meyer,a native of Prussia, had been detailed from the U. S.Signal-service Bureau to accompany the expedition.Morton was well known as the discoverer of the Open Polar sea; he accompanied Kane on his twoArctic voyages, and was with him in Havana at thetime of his death. Captain Buddington, was a sailor of great experi-ence having followed the sea from boyhood. At theage of thirteen he acted as cook on a fishing smack inthe Gulf of Mexico; afterwards he caught mackerel,and cod-fish in more eastern waters, and while yet aboy went on a whaling ship to the Southern Pacific.When the ship was ready to go home, he joined anempty whaler which had just come to the fishing,grounds, and returned as her mate, having been absentfrom home for a period of six years.
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SKETCH OF OFFICERS. 699 Wlien Buddington sailed again it was as master ofa wlialing vessel, and lie had followed that businessever since, making eleven voyages to tlie Arctic seas,extending over a period of twenty-tliree years. Hecommanded the ^ John Henry, tlie ship which gaveHall a free passage outward and homeward on hisfirst journey to the North, and had ever been on friend-ly terms with the explorer. Hall knew Buddington well, having spent muchtime at his home in Groton, Conn., where he was al-ways welcome as an old friend of the family. In hispublished book he speaks of him as ^^my noblefriend, and relates several circumstances which ^o toshoAV that he considered Buddington to be what hedoubtless was, a brave, capable and humane man, un-surpassed by any one as a safe Arctic navigator. It was these qualities which led Captain Hall toselect Buddington as navigator of the Polaris. It issaid that he at first reluctantly consented to go, as hehad not much interest in an expedition m

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