Identifier: adventuresoftwoy00knox (find matches)
Title: Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e was but a limited amount of clothing for the weary and frost-bitten men. Two sailors, Nindermann and Noros, were sent away to procure help, and when nearly dead with fatigue and starvation fell in with some wandering natives. They could not induce these people to go with them to relieve the shipwrecked crew, and so all of their party that had been left behind died of hunger and cold on the banks of the Lena. The two sailors were taken to a Russian village, where they met Mr. Melville, their old officer; he did every-thing in his power for the rescue of De Long and his companions, but all in vain. The records which were afterwards found by the side of De Longat the spot where he died showed that before Melville started on his search the whole party had perished. In the following spring an expedition was sent to the mouth of the Lena to find the last camp of the explorers, and secure the records of the voyage of the Jeannette. All the papers were found and preserved, the A NARROW ESCAPE. 149
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IMAGE: In an Arctic Gale 150 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. bodies were buried, and a monument was erected over their grave. One by one the survivors returned to the United States; and finally, in the early part of 1884, the bodies of De Long and those who died with him were brought home for burial in their native land. The story of the Jean-nette is one of the most pathetic that has been given to us in the annals of arctic exploration. As the major ended his account of the adventures of De Long and his companions, there was not a dry eye among his group of listeners.Not a word was spoken, but silently, one by one, they sought the deck,and did not revert to the subject of the conversation. The ice is growing thicker in the north, said the Doctor, as he waved his hand in the direction indicated. The wind seems to be pressing the floes together, and I should not be surprised if the pack closes in upon us before another twenty hours. Hour by hour the ice became more abundant, and the Doctors prediction was verified. With i

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