Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . e of whose highest peak. MountArthur, was 5,000 feet, and many rivers and gla-ciers. Meanwhile, the two relief expeditions hadfailed to reach Discovery harbor. That of 1882. inthe Neptune, under Lieut. Beebe, only succeededin reaching lat. 71° 20 N., and that of 1883. in theProteus and the Yantic, under Lieut. Gar-lington, resulted in the destruction of the formervessel by the ice. Both expeditions left stores incaches at various points. On 9 1883, Greelyand his party set out on their retreat southward,after making, during nearly two years, s
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . e of whose highest peak. MountArthur, was 5,000 feet, and many rivers and gla-ciers. Meanwhile, the two relief expeditions hadfailed to reach Discovery harbor. That of 1882. inthe Neptune, under Lieut. Beebe, only succeededin reaching lat. 71° 20 N., and that of 1883. in theProteus and the Yantic, under Lieut. Gar-lington, resulted in the destruction of the formervessel by the ice. Both expeditions left stores incaches at various points. On 9 1883, Greelyand his party set out on their retreat southward,after making, during nearly two years, systematicobservations of temperature, atmospheric pressure,the direction and height of the tides, the velocityof the wind, and the intensity of gravity. Thehealth of all, up to this time, had been 15 Oct., after meeting with various adven-tures, drifting about Smith sound for thirty dayson an ice-floe, and being compelled to abandontheir steam launch in the ice. they reached CapeSabine, where they established their winter quar-. 74:? GREEfl GREEN tors, lloro they suffered greatly from want of - as, and were finally forced to Live on boiled strips of seal-skin, lichens, and shrimps. Sixteen of the party died of starvation, one was drowned,and one, Private Henry,was shot by Lieut. Greelysorders, on the ground that he repeatedly stole seven survivors were rescued by the third re-lief expedition, under Schley, on -22June, 1883, in so exhausted a condition that forty-eight hours delay would have been fatal. Sincethe return of Lieut. Ghreely he has been chargedwith incapacity and arbitrary conduct in his man-agement of the expedition; but these charges havenot been listened to by his superiors. He was pro-moted to captain. 11 June. 1886. and in 1887, afterthe death of Gen. William B, lla/.en, was appointedby President Cleveland to succeed that officer aschief of the signal-service corps, with the rank ofbrigadier-general. In 1885 he was given the
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