Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . hers reached the main mouth of theLena, 17 Sept., having travelled about 2,800 miles,and reached the main-land at a point 500 miles dis-tant from their lost ship. Obliged by new ice toabandon their boat and travel overland, they pro-ceeded slowly up the Lena, much embarrassed bysick and helpless men and their cumbersome rec-ords. On 9 Oct. they could go no farther. Twomen, sent forward by De Long to obtain relief,survived, but the others perished of exposure andstarvation within twenty-five miles of a Siberiansettlement. De Longs diary, written up
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . hers reached the main mouth of theLena, 17 Sept., having travelled about 2,800 miles,and reached the main-land at a point 500 miles dis-tant from their lost ship. Obliged by new ice toabandon their boat and travel overland, they pro-ceeded slowly up the Lena, much embarrassed bysick and helpless men and their cumbersome rec-ords. On 9 Oct. they could go no farther. Twomen, sent forward by De Long to obtain relief,survived, but the others perished of exposure andstarvation within twenty-five miles of a Siberiansettlement. De Longs diary, written up to thelast day, shows that he and two others were livingon 30 Oct. Noros and Nindemann,the men sentforward by De Long, fell in with natives on 22Oct., and with Melville, 29 Oct., at Belun. Melvillepushed his search, without success, northward to theextremity of the Lena delta in November, and, re-newing his search in March, 1882, found the deadbodies and the records of the expedition on the 23dof that month. By direction of the U. S. govern-. ment, the remains of De Long and hi- unfortunatecompanions were brought to In- native city, w\><;; they were interred with distinguished honor- on22 Feb., 1884. The attainment of the highest lati-tude in Asiatic seas, and the discovery of Jean-nette, Henrietta, and Bennett islands, appear at first to be meagre and inadequate results from 50long and disaslrous a voyage. But to the positiveresults must be adder! negative discoveries; for be-fore De Longs northwest drift the long-sought-forWrangell land shrank, from a continent supposedto extend from the confines of Asia to Greenland,into a small island. J Jut the hydrographical con-ditions of the 50,000 square miles of the polarocean charted by De Long clearly indicate t he-character of 50,000 other square miles of area tothe south, where doubtless a shallow sea exists,with occasional small islands of no great Wrangell island proved to be an inconsider-able land, De Lo
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