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 . CHAPTER I. THE JEANNETTE AND HER CREW—THE VOYAGE TO THEARCTIC OCEAN. THE American Arctic Expedition, commanded by Lieu-tenant George W. DeLong of the United States Navy,which left San Francisco, July 8tli, 1879, was projected byJames Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York the return of the last of the two successful expeditionswhich he had sent to Africa under Henry M. Stanley, longed for new worlds to conque
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 . CHAPTER I. THE JEANNETTE AND HER CREW—THE VOYAGE TO THEARCTIC OCEAN. THE American Arctic Expedition, commanded by Lieu-tenant George W. DeLong of the United States Navy,which left San Francisco, July 8tli, 1879, was projected byJames Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York the return of the last of the two successful expeditionswhich he had sent to Africa under Henry M. Stanley, longed for new worlds to conquer, and decided tosend out, at his own expense, an expedition to attempt toreach the North Pole by way of Berings Straits. Lieuten-ant DeLong became interested in the undertaking, and thePandora, owned by Captain Allan Young, was selected andbought as a suitable vessel to convey the explorers. The Pandora was built in England in 1862. She was abark-rigged steam yacht of 420 tons burden, with an engineof 200 horse-power, and a wide spread of canvas. She wasstrongly constructed, and had seen considerable service inthe northern seas. In 1873 she conveyed
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