. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . Jamka,Noah Hayes, Seamen. Joe, Esquimaux Interpreter and Hunter; Hannah, Interpreter and Seamstress;Punna, adopted daughter of Joe and Hannah. Dr. Bessels was a German savant, who had acquiredArctic experience in a voyage to Spitzbergen. Meyer,a native of Prussia, had been detailed from the U. Bureau to accompany the was well known as the discoverer of the Open Polar sea; he accompanied Kane
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . Jamka,Noah Hayes, Seamen. Joe, Esquimaux Interpreter and Hunter; Hannah, Interpreter and Seamstress;Punna, adopted daughter of Joe and Hannah. Dr. Bessels was a German savant, who had acquiredArctic experience in a voyage to Spitzbergen. Meyer,a native of Prussia, had been detailed from the U. Bureau to accompany the was well known as the discoverer of the Open Polar sea; he accompanied Kane on his twoArctic voyages, and was with him in Havana at thetime of his death. Captain Buddington, was a sailor of great experi-ence having followed the sea from boyhood. At theage of thirteen he acted as cook on a fishing smack inthe Gulf of Mexico; afterwards he caught mackerel,and cod-fish in more eastern waters, and while yet aboy went on a whaling ship to the Southern the ship was ready to go home, he joined anempty whaler which had just come to the fishing,grounds, and returned as her mate, having been absentfrom home for a period of six SKETCH OF OFFICERS. 699 Wlien Buddington sailed again it was as master ofa wlialing vessel, and lie had followed tliat businessever since, making eleven voyages to tlie Arctic seas,extending over a period of twenty-tliree years. Hecommanded the ^ John Henry, tlie ship which gaveHall a free passage outward and homeward on hisfirst journey to the North, and had ever been on friend-ly terms with the explorer. Hall knew Buddington well, having spent muchtime at his home in Groton, Conn., where he was al-ways welcome as an old friend of the family. In hispublished book he speaks of him as ^^my noblefriend, and relates several circumstances which ^o toshoAV that he considered Buddington to be what hedoubtless was, a brave, capable and humane man, un-surpassed by any one as a safe Arctic navigator. It was these qualities whic
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