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 . that theyconsider themselves able to remain another year at least. Many of the desolate places which the Corwin sighted ortouched at had been visited and named by English naviga-tors in search of Franklin. A correspondent of the NewYork Herald speaks of some of them as follows :— Notable among those on the Asiatic coast is Emma Har-bor, Plover Bay, Siberia, where Captain Moore wintered inthe Plover in 1848-49. It is surrounded on nearly
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 . that theyconsider themselves able to remain another year at least. Many of the desolate places which the Corwin sighted ortouched at had been visited and named by English naviga-tors in search of Franklin. A correspondent of the NewYork Herald speaks of some of them as follows :— Notable among those on the Asiatic coast is Emma Har-bor, Plover Bay, Siberia, where Captain Moore wintered inthe Plover in 1848-49. It is surrounded on nearly all sidesby lofty, barren mountains, whose summits, reaching into theclouds, give them an air of desolate grandeur. Their geolo-gical formation is quite remarkable, seemingly nothing morethan colossal piles of broken bowlders and fragments of rock. 36 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. On the American side, the western extremity of the NewWorld, Cape Prince of Wales, terminates as a bold, raggedpromontory, whose celebrated peak, being joined to the main-land by a low ridge of hills, gives it at a distance the appear-ance of standing alone in the ESKIMO FAMILY NEAR CAPE PRINCE OF WALES. Near the head of Kotzebue Sound we found on ChamissoIsland, about two hundred feet above the sea level, an astro-nomical station, composed of a mound of earth and stones,on the top of which was a wooden shaft about twelve feethigh, and bearing carved inscriptions of several Englishships—Blossom, Herald, Plover. To these was added theCorwin—1880. Near by was another shaft with the namesof some Russian vessels. About forty miles south of Berings Straits is a remarka-ble rocky island, named Kings Island by Captain Cook. Itscliffs, almost perpendicular on all sides, rise to the height of750 feet. It is surrounded by bold water, enabling ships to AN ESQUIMAUX EYRIE. 87 approach to within a very short distance of the shore. ThisArctic Gibraltar—minus the fortifications—has a ragged out
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