Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . three out of one hundred and thirty-eight isnot a high proportion of mortality. The seven hundred emptymeat-tins seemed to show that the consumption of meat hadbeen moderate; for the ships started with twenty-four thousandcanisters. This was the substance of the intelligence obtainedduring this year of the fate of the wanderers; and it was, aswill be noticed, already five years old. An expedition was also fitted out for the search in 1850,under the combined auspi
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . three out of one hundred and thirty-eight isnot a high proportion of mortality. The seven hundred emptymeat-tins seemed to show that the consumption of meat hadbeen moderate; for the ships started with twenty-four thousandcanisters. This was the substance of the intelligence obtainedduring this year of the fate of the wanderers; and it was, aswill be noticed, already five years old. An expedition was also fitted out for the search in 1850,under the combined auspices of Henry Grinnell, Esq., a mer-chant of New York, and the United States Navy Department,—the former furnishing the ships and the means, the latter themen and the discipline. Two hermaphrodite brigs,—the Advanceand Rescue,—of one hundred and forty-four and ninety tons 520 MAN UPON THE SEA. respectively, manned by thirty-eight men, all told, andstrengthened for Arctic duty beyond all precedent, were pre-pared for the service. They were placed under the commandof Lieutenant De Haven,—Dr. E. K. Kane, of the Navy, being. DR. KANE. appointed surgeon and naturalist to the squadron. They sailedfrom New York on the 23d of May, and in less than a monthdescried the gaunt coast of Greenland at the moment when thedistinction between day and night began to be lost. TheDanish inhabitants of the settlement at Lievely made themsuch presents of furs as their own scanty wardrobes sailors, complaining of sickness, were landed at DiscoIsland, thence to make the best of their way home. Thus far the weather had been favorable, and they passedthe seventy-fourth degree without meeting ice. On the 7th of MAN UPON THE SEA. 521 July, being still in Baffins Bay, they encountered the was summer-ice, consisting of closely-set but separate could not make over three miles a day headway throughit,—which they considered a useless expenditure of remained b
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