. In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for De Long and his companions . et and who had carried their pencilmessage to me; and that I had hurried forward immedi-ately upon its receipt, in order to obtain information ofthe whereabouts of De Long and party. At this we allbroke down, Nindemann and Noros declaring that it wasuseless to search for their companions, who had died longago; that they had parted from them twenty-five daysbefore, and for several days previous to their separationthey had had absolutely nothing to eat, having subsistedon their skin clothing, and the
. In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for De Long and his companions . et and who had carried their pencilmessage to me; and that I had hurried forward immedi-ately upon its receipt, in order to obtain information ofthe whereabouts of De Long and party. At this we allbroke down, Nindemann and Noros declaring that it wasuseless to search for their companions, who had died longago; that they had parted from them twenty-five daysbefore, and for several days previous to their separationthey had had absolutely nothing to eat, having subsistedon their skin clothing, and the alcohol, sweet-oil, andglycerine from the medical stores ; each man receivingbut a couple of ounces of alcohol per day, with a tea-spoonful of oil or glycerine while either lasted ; and thatfinally, at parting, De Long had divided the alcoholequally around, and started them on a forced marchalong the west bank of the river to a settlement, distant,he supposed, about twenty-five miles. They told me of their great and many sufferings ; howthey had eaten their dog, and managed to crawl along a. 1. Nindemann and Noros starting ahead in search of help. 2. The meeting betweenMelville and Nindemann and Noros. 3. Deer teams. AT BELUN. 165 few yards at a time; how Ericksen had died and beenburied in the river; and how De Long, seeing that hisparty could not struggle on in a body, had selected thebest two men for travel, Nindemann and Iversen, but asIversen had complained the day before of frost-bittenfeet, Noros was detailed instead. Nindemann was in-structed to journey forward as rapidly as possible, keep-ing the west bank of the river, but if he found succor ofany kind, to return to the party, who meanwhile wouldfollow in his footsteps. He left them camped on thebank of a small river running northwest from one of themain branches, and followed the west bank to a greatbay, when, true to his instructions, he continued aroundit to the westward, and thence in an easterly direction tothe
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