. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. had done. REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE W. STATES NAVY. f^ox 43 enough ; but, after a few days of rest to recuperatehis forces, he again took his life in his hands and leda party which discovered, far down in that lonel}^wintr}^ waste, the bodies of De Long, Dr. Amblerand their ill-starred companions. One boat, herightly judged, had been lost during a night ofstorm, as the}^ were approaching the land. In search-ing for the other boats crew he fought his perilousand painful way, mile by mile, through the rigors ofperpe
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. had done. REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE W. STATES NAVY. f^ox 43 enough ; but, after a few days of rest to recuperatehis forces, he again took his life in his hands and leda party which discovered, far down in that lonel}^wintr}^ waste, the bodies of De Long, Dr. Amblerand their ill-starred companions. One boat, herightly judged, had been lost during a night ofstorm, as the}^ were approaching the land. In search-ing for the other boats crew he fought his perilousand painful way, mile by mile, through the rigors ofperpetual winter and floating archipelagoes of icealong the Arctic coast for over five hundred miles,surviving the privations which had been fatal to somany, and persevered until his search was rewardedb}^ the recovery of all the records of the JeannetteExpedition. In the face of obstacles presented bythe worst season, he penetrated to the mouth of theLena in his search, and left no doubt that the un-fortunate crew of the third boat had not succeeded inreaching the shore. As it wa
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