The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . a resolution passed that the ex-pedition be fitted out by thenavy. A vessel was selectedand $90,000 expended in herpreparation. Again, on July 3,1871, the city of New Londonwitness
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . a resolution passed that the ex-pedition be fitted out by thenavy. A vessel was selectedand $90,000 expended in herpreparation. Again, on July 3,1871, the city of New Londonwitnessed the departure of theintrepid navigator in a ship fit-tingly named the Polaris, on anet^pedition to pierce tiie icyfields of the distant north, andtry to solve its mysteries. Onthis journey Hall commanded;Capt. S. O. Buddington wentas sailing master; Dr. EmilBessels as chief of scientificwork, and twenty-four othersfor the various departments ofrequired duty. The Congresswas ordered to accompany the Polaris as tender, asfar as Godhaven, Greenland. At that point the severe part of the arctic journey began. Hall, findingthe sea unusually free from ice, pushed forwardtnrough Smith sound into Kane sea, thence in anortheasterly direction through Kennedy and Robe-son channels, till, in Lat. 82° 16 N.,with the mightyicy waste stretching away indefinitely before her,the Polaris was enabled to make the log that on. )S-> THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA Aug. 29, 1871, she had reached the highest pointat that time ever attained by any vessel. To goforward was impracticable, and Hall returnedsouthward as far as 81° 38 N., and went into winterquarters at Thank God harbor. The place selectedwas on a promontory with high mountains on thenorth and east. A few weeks sufficed to prepare forwinter quarters, when he set out on a sledge jour-ney, occupying two weeks. He went as far northas Cape Brevoort, 82° N., and returning to the ship,died suddenly in camp of apoplexy. Without hisknowledtre and
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