Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . old with the Vega had wintered tothe north of them, and had passed east to Berings Strait inthe month of June. The next day we cruised along thecoast to the westward. Met two other parties of natives,who came alongside, but took a look at us only. On Sunday, August 31st, we fell in with some drift ice, andat daylight discovered a few huts on the beach. The driftice extended about four miles off shore. Lieutenant Chipp,Ice-Pilot Dunbar a
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . old with the Vega had wintered tothe north of them, and had passed east to Berings Strait inthe month of June. The next day we cruised along thecoast to the westward. Met two other parties of natives,who came alongside, but took a look at us only. On Sunday, August 31st, we fell in with some drift ice, andat daylight discovered a few huts on the beach. The driftice extended about four miles off shore. Lieutenant Chipp,Ice-Pilot Dunbar and I, went ashore in the whale-boat to inter-view the natives. After a two hours pull through the drift-pack, and seeing many seals, we reached the beach and foundseveral carcasses of recently slain walrus. The nativesseemed rather shy, and we had to look them up in their skintents. There we found a sailors trypot, and a cask marked Centennial brand of whiskey,—conclusive proof that thepeople were in occasional communication with Americantraders. We met an intelligent young Chukche, who offered toshow us the spot where the Vega had wintered. We took a. THE VEGas winter QUARTERS. 178 tramp of several hours to the westward, and saw a bay aboutfifteen miles wide between the headlands, and there tlienatives told us the Vega had passed the winter. We foundnothing there of an}^ consequence. In the tents, however,we found tin cans marked Stockholm, scraps of paper withsoundings marked in Swedish, and some interesting picturesof Stockholm professional beauties. The natives indicatedto us by signs that the steamer had passed safely out to theeast. After purchasing some of the pictures and tin cans wereturned to the ship. During my absence the captain had got the sun at noon,and the latitude placed us about fifteen miles inland. Ourastronomical positions were not reliable, owing to the stateof the weather, but from them and the dead reckoning wefelt assured that the coast is not correc
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