. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. not left on the ice-floe with Captain Tyson, had passed the winter. The English-speakingnative, who answered to the name of Jack, said lie was at the islandwhen Captain Buddington and his party sailed away in the two boats theybuilt from the timber of the Polaris. He said the white men passed the winter on the island, living in ahouse they erected on shore, and fitting it up with bunks brought fromthe ship. In the spring the natives came there, and pitched their tentsclose by, so that Polaris Camp had for a time a lively appearance. 272 THE VOY
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. not left on the ice-floe with Captain Tyson, had passed the winter. The English-speakingnative, who answered to the name of Jack, said lie was at the islandwhen Captain Buddington and his party sailed away in the two boats theybuilt from the timber of the Polaris. He said the white men passed the winter on the island, living in ahouse they erected on shore, and fitting it up with bunks brought fromthe ship. In the spring the natives came there, and pitched their tentsclose by, so that Polaris Camp had for a time a lively appearance. 272 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. Before Captain Buddington left he gave the wreck of the steamer andeverything on shore to the chief of the Eskimos, but shortly after the trans-fer the steamer broke loose from her moorings in a gale and drifted outto deep water, where she sank. The natives were obliged to content them-selves with what was left on shore, but they mourned earnestly the loss ofthe ship and the abundant store of wood of which she was POLARIS CAMP. INTERNATIONAL OBSERVING STATIONS. 273 CHAPTER XIX. THE SIGNAL SERVICE STATION.—FROM LITTLETON ISLAND TO UPERNAVIK. I j^YIDENTLY the post-office on Littleton Island was not extensively-*~^ patronized, as it contained only three letters and a newspaper, thelatter more than a year old. The letters were for the use of any one whochoose to read them; they recorded the visits of exploring ships, but therewas no news of special interest to our friends. There was a memorandumconcerning the signal service party under Lieutenant Greely, which isknown to the readers of the newspapers as The Greely Colony. Commander Bronson read this paper carefully, and. then explainedas follows, partly in his own words and partly from the notes: Lieutenant Weyprecht, of the Austrian North-pole Expedition, recom-mended that a ring of observing stations should be placed around thepole, as near as was consistent with safety, for the purpose of makin
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