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 . erous fox-traps. A mans track was also seen in tliesnow, bound south, and we followed it until it crossed theriver to the west bank again. Here we were obliged to goback again in our tracks, for the river was open in placesand we could not follow the mans track direct. Another ofthe dozen shoals that infest the river swung us off to the 382 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. eastward, too, and I hastened to get on the west bank again,reac
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 . erous fox-traps. A mans track was also seen in tliesnow, bound south, and we followed it until it crossed theriver to the west bank again. Here we were obliged to goback again in our tracks, for the river was open in placesand we could not follow the mans track direct. Another ofthe dozen shoals that infest the river swung us off to the 382 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. eastward, too, and I hastened to get on the west bank again,reaching there at ten minutes to twelve for dinner—our lastfour-fourteenths of a pound of pemmican. At forty minutes past one got under way again and madea long spurt until twenty minutes past two. While at theother side of the river Alexai said he saw a hut, and duringour dinner camp he said he again saw a hut. Under ourcircumstances my desire was to get to it as speedily as pos-sible. As Alexai points out, it was on the left bank of theriver of which we were now on the right side, looking south,but a sand bank gave us excellent walking for a mile or two. A TIME OF TROUBLE. until we took to the river and got across it diagonally. Here,at twenty minutes past two, I called a halt, and Alexiamounted the bluff to take a look again. He now announcedhe saw a second hut, about one and a quarter miles backfrom the coast, the other hut being about the same distance LIEUTENANT DE LONGS DIARY. 888 south and on the edge of the bluff. The heavy draggingacross the country of a sick man on a sled made me inclineto the hut on the shore, since, as the distance was about thesame, we could get over the ice in one-third of the , who climbed the bluff, saw that the objectinland was a hut; was not so confident of the one on theshore. Alexai, however, was quite positive, and not seeingvery well myself, I unfortunately took his eyes as best andordered an advance along the river to the so
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