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Our record of Arctic expeditions will fitly close with a sketch of the
cruise of the Pandora, a screw-yacht commanded by Captain Allen
Young, which left England in the summer of 1876, in order to open
up communications with the Admiralty expedition.
CHART
SHOWING THE DISCOVERIES
OF THE
BRITISH POLAR EXPEDITION
1875–76.
[From Map accompanying Official Report published in “Nature.”]
Captain Young left Upernavik on the evening of the 19th of July,
and stood away to the northward—in bad weather, and with the wind
blowing a gale. Through vast fields of ice he threaded his way,
sometimes under sail, sometimes under steam, until, on the morning
of the 24th, he found his ship completely surrounded, in lat. 75° 10’
N.
No time was lost in endeavouring to effect an escape by charging
the ice at full speed,—again and again returning to the onset; and a
slow but steady progress was being made, when the field in which
they were held fast, drifting before the gale, “collided” with a group of
grounded bergs, and exposed the little vessel to such severe
pressure, that preparations were made for abandoning her.
Provisions, ammunition, camping and travelling gear, all were made
ready, and the boats were lowered as far as possible at the davits.
Meantime, heavy charges of gunpowder were used to blast the ice
where it pressed the ship most severely; and the bergs taking a
different direction, the Pandora began to recover herself, and before
night settled down nearly to her usual level. In the darkness of the
night, with the wind howling, and the snow and sleet driving in heavy
showers, she moved ahead with the pack; and in this way continued
her progress until the 27th, when the weather cleared, and Captain
Young discovered that he had advanced right into the heart of
Melville Bay, with no water in sight. Full in view were Capes Walker
and Melville, the Peaked Hill, and huge glacier-streams embedded in
the intervening valleys. All around was one vast monotonous sheet
of rugged ice. It was not until the 29th that the Pandora, after many
hairbreadth escapes, got into open water, in lat. 75° 50’ N., and long.
64° 55’ W. While thus imprisoned in the grasp of the floe, the
explorers killed only one Polar bear, four seals, and a few little auks.
In a clear sea they now stood away to the westward, passing
Capes Dudley, Digges, and Athol, and other headlands familiar in
the records of Arctic adventure. At noon on the 31st, when off
Wolstenholm Island, another gale overtook them, increasing rapidly
to almost hurricane fury. This was an unpleasant experience; for the
deck was washed by heavy seas, and it was with the greatest
difficulty they avoided coming into collision with the icebergs which
drifted rapidly through the snow and spray.
Reaching Cary Island, they landed to examine Captain Nares’
depôt of provisions, and found it in good preservation. The cairn had
not been visited since Young’s call at the island on the 10th of
September in the previous year. Afterwards they made for
Sutherland Island, where they found a record of the American
explorer, Captain Hartstene, dated August 16, 1855. It is with a
curious feeling that, in these regions of almost perpetual winter, the
voyager comes upon such faint memorials of men who, like him,
have dared all the perils of ice-floes and icebergs, and adventured
into seas far beyond the track of ordinary commercial enterprise.
On Littleton Island, a record of the expedition was found. The
document was dated July 28, 1875, and signed by Captain Nares;
and it indicated the course about to be taken by the ships under his
orders. Owing to the ice-encumbered condition of the straits,
however, Captain Young could not follow it up; and instead of
crossing to Cape Isabella, he resolved to examine the coast in
Hartstene Bay, in order to seek a harbour for the relief-ship which the
Admiralty had intended to send out in 1877, in case of the non-return
of the Polar Expedition. This was found on the 4th of August, not far
from the Eskimo settlement of Etah, and named after the Pandora. It
would seem to offer every advantage as winter quarters for Arctic
discovery-ships; the surrounding hills are “dotted with Arctic hares,
appearing like snow-balls on the luxurious vegetation.” The little auk
breeds in thousands on the cliffs, eider fowl and guillemots haunt the
waters, and the adjacent valleys and pastures are frequented by
reindeer.
Captain Young next made for Cape Isabella, which he reached
on the 6th of August. Watchful eyes soon discovered a large cairn on
the summit of this headland. A boat was lowered, and the contents
of the cairn soon obtained, while despatches and letters for Captain
Nares’ expedition were left in their stead. Then the Pandora steamed
to the northward; but, owing to the adverse winds and the
accumulated ice, could make no way, and was forced back to Cape
Isabella. Another attempt was made to the eastward, and for several
days the gallant little ship crossed and recrossed the straits, through
the pack, always beset with ice, and frequently enshrouded in
impenetrable fogs. No fewer than three times was she compelled to
take shelter in Pandora Harbour. On the 19th she was driven back to
the northward of Littleton Island, and Captain Young and some of his
officers took the opportunity of visiting the Polaris camp. Nothing
remained of the house erected by Captain Buddington except a few
broken boards. The rocks were strewn with pieces of metal,
fragments of clothing, and other waifs and strays. The cache in
which the retreating party had deposited their books and instruments
was also examined; but the only relics were a brass bowl of a seven-
inch compass, a tin tube, and parts of a telescope. Some cases and
casks, containing records for the use of Captain Nares, were
securely placed among the rocks on the western point of the island;
and Captain Young then returned to Cape Isabella.
Finding nothing here of any interest, and convinced that no
travelling or boat party had reached that position from the Polar
ships, the Pandora bore away to the northward under canvas. “It was
very dark and thick,” says Captain Young, “but sufficiently clear to
enable us to avoid the heavy ice. By nine a.m. we were up to
Lecomte Island, when we were stopped by a fog until eleven o’clock,
when I could see from aloft that the main pack extended across the
straits into Rosse Bay. We were in a lake of land water, with close-
packed and heavy ice all round, from south to north, and again
closing on the land from the eastward. Our only chance of moving
seemed to be through a narrow lead or slack place, running first to
the east-north-east, and then again apparently towards the east
coast. We entered the pack, and succeeded by five p.m. in again
escaping into the land water in Hartstene Bay.” Such are the
experiences of twelve hours in the ice-clogged waters of the North!
But we need not delay the reader with these minute particulars,
notwithstanding their interest as illustrative of the nature of the
struggle waged with so much persistency of purpose by the Arctic
explorer. The sea was now covered everywhere with ice and bergs.
Storms were of frequent occurrence; and the wind and wave beaten
Pandora was forced back into Baffin Bay.
Here, on the 28th of August, her captain could see that the solid
ice had filled the straits and the head of the bay right across to Cape
Alexander. The way north being thus obstructed, Captain Young
resolved on proceeding towards Upernavik, in North Greenland,
hoping to find that the last ship had not already sailed for Denmark,
and in that case to send an officer home with despatches, while the
Pandora returned to Smith Strait.
On the 29th she was off Hakluyt Island, and steered for Bardin
Bay in Whale Sound. On entering the bay, a summer tent could be
seen, and some Eskimos, with their dogs, running to and fro,
evidently with the view of attracting the attention of the visitors.
Captain Young accordingly landed, with some of his officers, and
accompanied by Christian, his Eskimo interpreter. The natives met
them with the utmost confidence and fearlessness, assisting to haul
their boat up on the shore. They were ten in number, and all
members of one family. Food appeared to be plentiful with them, but
they were profuse in their thanks for some walrus-flesh given by
Captain Young. Their manners were frank and communicative, and
they showed considerable vivacity, rejoicing over the results of a
very good hunting season. Neither European ships nor white men
had they seen for years; but they said that an old man, who, with his
family, inhabited Northumberland Island, told of two ships which had
passed to the northward “last summer.” How lonely must be the life
led by these poor savages! Never gladdened by the sight of a sail;
but, year after year, shut up in their frozen solitudes, and without any
other object or purpose before them than to obtain just enough food
to avoid a premature and miserable death!
Among their treasures Captain Young observed a ship’s bucket,
half the top of a mahogany table, the paddle of a Greenlander’s
kayack, much ice-worn, and a piece of packing-case marked “Lime
juice—Leith;” all of which, they said, had drifted into the bay at
different times from the southward. These people seemed to Captain
Young of a kind and simple disposition, while they were evidently
robust and healthy. All that they had—and it was little enough—they
freely pressed upon their visitor; and when asked what present they
would like, their chief selected only some gimlets and a fifteen-foot
ash oar. The latter, he said, would split up into spear-shafts; the
former he wanted for boring bone and ivory. Captain Young,
however, gave them several other useful articles; accepting in return
some narwhal horns, specimens of their pot-stone cooking-kettles,
and of the iron pyrites which they used for striking fire. An exchange
of dogs also took place; five of the dogs belonging to the Pandora
being given for three of the finest bear-hunting and tame dogs of the
Eskimos.
At Upernavik, the Pandora, after a stormy and dangerous
passage, arrived on the evening of September the 7th, but found that
the last ship had sailed for Europe. As there were no means,
therefore, of communicating with England, and as, without such
communication, Captain Young did not feel authorized to winter in
the North, a supply of fresh water wars taken on board, and the ship
steered for home. From the 15th to the 21st she tarried at
Goodhav’n, in Disco Island. In Davis Strait she encountered large
quantities of heavy Spitzbergen drift-ice, and weathered a severe
south-easterly gale. On the 16th of October, in lat. 54° 38’ N., and
long. 44° 30’ W., she sighted the Arctic ships, Alert and Discovery,
and hastened to communicate with them. They kept together until
the 19th. On the following day, the Pandora was buffeted by another
hurricane; but the rest of her voyage was accomplished in safety,
and was marked by no incidents of importance.
Here, for the present, terminates the record of British enterprise
and adventure in the Arctic World. It is difficult to believe, however,
that the nation will rest until the “heart of the mystery has been
plucked out,” the Secret finally mastered, and the British flag hoisted
on that remote point which is conventionally known as the North
Pole.
INDEX.
Jacobshav’n, 168.
Jakut merchants, the, enterprise of, 217.
Jakuts, the, as bear-hunters, 212;
manners and customs of, 216, 217.
James, Captain Thomas, voyage of, 228.
Joe the Eskimo, with Captain Tyson, 278, et sqq.
Osborn, Admiral Sherard, quoted, 44, 81, 84, 85, 87, 146, 151,
232, 236, 237.
Ostiaks, the, manners and customs of, 211, 212.
Ostrownoje, trade at, 220.
Oxyria, the, uses of, 141.
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