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 . succeed, Ajakitis lat 70 deg. 65 min. north, long, not known as the chart isa coppy, sent for the govener to Bulun, came 27th he knewthe ships name, and knew about Nordenchawl, but could nottalk English, we tried to make him understand that theCaptain was in a starving condition or probably dead, andthat we wanted natives, Raindeer and food to get them, as Ithought that we could make it in five or six days to savethem from starvation bu
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 . succeed, Ajakitis lat 70 deg. 65 min. north, long, not known as the chart isa coppy, sent for the govener to Bulun, came 27th he knewthe ships name, and knew about Nordenchawl, but could nottalk English, we tried to make him understand that theCaptain was in a starving condition or probably dead, andthat we wanted natives, Raindeer and food to get them, as Ithought that we could make it in five or six days to savethem from starvation but the Govoner made signs that hehad to Telegraph to St. Petersberg, he then sent us on toBulun. We stand in kneed of food and clothing at presentour health is in a bad condition hoping to be well soon weremain your humble servants, William C. F. Nindermann,Louis P. Noros,Seamen of the U. S. Navy, Steamer Jeannette. The following are extracts from a letter which Mr. Noroswrote from Yakutsk, to his father who resides in Fall River,Massachusetts:— On the 4th of September we were frozen fast in packice, where we remained drifting north and west until the. NOROSS LETTER. 135 ship was crushed on June 11th, 1881. While being heldfast in our icy cradle we had a good time hunting bears,seals, walrus, and other game. We frequently had face,nose, and ears frozen, but thought nothing of it, as we hadgot used to the climate. After the ship went down we had a hundred days of harddragging and sailing in open boats. On the night of Sep-tember 13th we had a gale of wind, and the boats got sepa-rated. The boat that I was in was the captains boat. Wehad fourteen men and dogs, and were loaded quite we reached the Siberian coast we could not land onthe beach from boats. We had to wade through ice andwater up to our waists. We were nearly all day carryingour things to shore, and it was dark before we got was on September 17th. On the 19th we commencedour march. We traveled u
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