The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . to the Arcticwas as chief engineer of the Tigress, in search of theill-fated Polaris. When the Jeannette was prepar-ing for her famous polar voyage,Capt. De Long, who was Mel-ville
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . to the Arcticwas as chief engineer of the Tigress, in search of theill-fated Polaris. When the Jeannette was prepar-ing for her famous polar voyage,Capt. De Long, who was Mel-villes personal friend, inducedhim to go with them. After thewreck of the Jeannette, the sur-vivors, in three boats, made thebest of their way toward the continent of Asia, on which occasionMelville carried his boats crew toa place of safety, and returned inthe arctic night to search for hisshipmates in the other two devotion of Melville on thisoccasion, and the hardships hewent through, are not surpassedby anything in history. His bookentitled In the Lena Delta, is aplain statement of his search for,and discovery of, the bodies of hisshipmates, and is without exag-geration. On the retreat from the wreck of , he with his party unfurled the Americanflag on Henrietta island in the name of the UnitedStates. Melvilles search for the remaining boat,which had been commanded by Lieut. Chipp, car-. 284 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA ried Mm through unparalleled hardships, extendingover five hundred miles of a coast of permanent ice,the party sleeping on the suow or ice without is thus referred to hy the United States housecommittee on naval affairs of the forty-eighth con-gress: The third boats crew, under command ofChief Engineer Melville, did on the 26th day ofSeptember, 1881, find a place of safety, and receivesupplies from the natives, some of the members ofthe party being in a disabled condition. The partyunder his command arrived at a small Siberian vil-lag
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