Biographical sketches of distinguished officers of the army and navy . unknown seas. When the su-preme moment came, and with their own resourcescut down to the lowest amount, the party had tomake for an unknown shore, over a vast extent of iceand water, Melville was equal to the occasion. Hecommanded one of the three boats engaged in the re-treat, and accomplished the feat of bringing thatwdiale-boats crew out alive,—while the others per-ished, either in the icy waters of the x-^rctic or theequally inhospitable waste about the Lena men would have thought that they had done. REAR ADM
Biographical sketches of distinguished officers of the army and navy . unknown seas. When the su-preme moment came, and with their own resourcescut down to the lowest amount, the party had tomake for an unknown shore, over a vast extent of iceand water, Melville was equal to the occasion. Hecommanded one of the three boats engaged in the re-treat, and accomplished the feat of bringing thatwdiale-boats crew out alive,—while the others per-ished, either in the icy waters of the x-^rctic or theequally inhospitable waste about the Lena men would have thought that they had done. REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE W. STATES NAVY 43 enough ; but, after a few days of rest to recuperatehis forces, he again took his life in his hands and leda part}- which discovered, far down in that lonelywintry waste, the bodies of De Long, Dr. Amblerand their ill-starred companions. One boat, herightly judged, had been lost during a night ofstorm, as thcA- were approaching the land. In search-ing for the other boats crew he fought his perilousand painful way, mile b}- mile, through the rigors ofperpetual winter and floating archipelagoes of icealong the Arctic coast for over five hundred miles,surviving the privations which had been fatal to somany, and persevered until his search was rewardedby the recoverv of all the records of the JeannetteExpedition. In the face of obstacles presented bythe worst season, he penetrated to the mouth of theLena in his search, and left no doubt that the un-fortunate crew of the third boat had not succeeded inreaching the shore. As it was, he c
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