Identifier: arcticboatjourne02haye (find matches)
Title: An Arctic boat journey, in the autumn of 1854
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881
Subjects: Grinnell Expedition 1853-1855)
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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neededonly a ladys thimble for a flower-pot, and a whitechickweed. Dotting the few feet of green aroundme were seen the yellow blossoms of the more hardypoppy, the purple polentilla^ and the white, purple,and yellow saxifrages. This little oasis was literally imbedded in ice.The water which had flowed through it had frozenin the holes, and spread itself out in a crystal sheetupon the rocks and stones around. A few speci-mens of the tiny blossoms were laid in my note-book, a sprig of heather and a saxifrage were stuckin my button hole, and with these souvenirs we leftthis garden spot, which the glacier was soon tocover forever from human eyes.3 Returning upon our track, we arrived at the campafter an absence of twenty-three hours, having trav-elled, during that time, between fifty and sixty miles.After halting here until midnight, we set out for thevessel, which was reached in another march. We found the preparations for winter progressing o ■t n
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INTRODUCTORY. 13 rapidly. Before they were completed, and as soonas the ice was sufficiently solid to insure the safetyof travel, Messrs. McGary and Bonsall, with fivemen, were dispatched with a sledge-load of stores,part of which they were to place on the land, as farnorth as they could reach, the remainder at availablepoints along the Greenland coast. These depositswere to serve as supports of the principal opera-tions, which were to follow in the spring. Theparty carried upon the sledge, in addition to theirown provisions and equipment, about four hundredpounds of pemmican* and bread. Their route lay up the hitherto unsurveyed coastof Greenland, to the northeastward from RensselaerHarbor. They soon found, much to their disap-pointment, that the ice was not completely fast,although the temperature was within a few de-grees of zero. The tide, as it rose and fell alter-nately, opened and closed chasms, or rivers, as Bon-sall styled them, sometimes fifty yards wide, acrosswhich the par

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