Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . en p. m. land was sightedfrom aloft by William Dunbar, ice-pilot, and bearing south78 deg. 45 min. west (magnetic) or north 83 deg. 15 true. It appears to be an island, and such portion of itas is visible is of this shape:— =S. 78° 45 W. (mag.) But owing to fog hanging partly over it and partly to thenorthward of it no certainty is felt that this is all of it. Itis also visible from the deck, but no estimate can be made ofits d
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . en p. m. land was sightedfrom aloft by William Dunbar, ice-pilot, and bearing south78 deg. 45 min. west (magnetic) or north 83 deg. 15 true. It appears to be an island, and such portion of itas is visible is of this shape:— =S. 78° 45 W. (mag.) But owing to fog hanging partly over it and partly to thenorthward of it no certainty is felt that this is all of it. Itis also visible from the deck, but no estimate can be made ofits distance. As no such land is laid down upon any chart in our pos-session, belief that we have made a discovery is permissible. This is the first land of any kind seen by the ship sinceMarch 24th, 1880, at which date we saw for the last time thenorth side of Wrangel Land. Wednesday, May 18, 1881.—Latitude north 76 deg. 43min. 38 sec, longitude east 161 deg. 42 min. 30 sec. The land sighted yesterday remains visible all day, butwith greater clearness. We are now able to determineits shape with greater exactness, and it is as below, roughlysketched:—. ISO, = S. 78° 45 W. (mag.) The clouds of yesterday, or fog-bank as then called, hav-ing disappeared from the upper part of the island, we areable to see apparent rocky cliffs with a snow-covered slopeextending back to the westward from them and terminatingin a conical mass like a volcano-top. 264 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Thursday, May 19, 1881.—Latitude 76 deg. 44 min. 50sec. north, longitude 161 deg. 30 min. 45 sec. east. Crew engaged in digging down through the ice on the portside of the stem in an effort to reach the forefoot. The icewas first bored to a depth of ten feet two inches withoutgetting to the bottom of it; next a hole was dug four feet indepth and from the bottom of this hole a drilling was madeto a depth of ten feet two inches; still not reaching the bot-tom of the ice at fourteen feet two inches
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