. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. eril and their scant relief,Their days of danger and their nights of pain;Their manly courage een when deemed in vain. One of the interesting things about our tripto the Arctic Seas was the possibility of seeingGreely or of possibly finding him or somethingabout him. I shall here give a brief outline ofwhat had been done up to this time towards res-cuing the gallant explorer and his intrepid fol-lowers. Every one I met in Newfoundland appeared toknow a great deal about Greely, because he hadstarted from there three years before in a ^s ship
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. eril and their scant relief,Their days of danger and their nights of pain;Their manly courage een when deemed in vain. One of the interesting things about our tripto the Arctic Seas was the possibility of seeingGreely or of possibly finding him or somethingabout him. I shall here give a brief outline ofwhat had been done up to this time towards res-cuing the gallant explorer and his intrepid fol-lowers. Every one I met in Newfoundland appeared toknow a great deal about Greely, because he hadstarted from there three years before in a ^s ship, and because both of the previousrelief expeditions had been in St. Johns ships,and a great many of the Newfoundland men hadbeen with them, and several of our crew at thesealing had been on the Proteus. One heard theGreely expedition and its relief discussed everyday. The consensus of opinion was that as thenavy had the matter in hand now, they wouldsucceed. The Newfoundlanders, being a maritimepeople, could not understand how soldiers could. IN THE \\T1ALER AURORA 75 be expected to make a success of a voyage of dis-covery or relief, and the two previous relief tripshad been unfortunate. The raison d^etre of theGreely expedition was briefly as follows: At a certain scientific conference held in Eu-rope a series of circiunpolar stations had beendecided upon, from which, owing to their prox-imity to the revolutionary axis of our globe, inter-esting and useful observations could be made ofphysical phenomena. As these observations wereto be made at the same time m a great many dif-ferent places, they would probably prove ofgreater interest and value than those suppliedintermittently by expeditions. Now the UnitedStates was to have two stations, one at Point Bar-row on the Behring Sea side, and one at LadyFranklin Bay on the Davis Strait side. A youngofficer in the American army. Lieutenant Greely,had volimteered for and been selected to takecharge of the Lady Franklin Bay expediti
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