40 THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



During the summer of 1881, three well-appointed expedi- 

 tions in the Corwin, the Rodgers, and the Alliance sailed 

 northward from the United States expressly to search for 

 the Jeannette. Two other expeditions, also, which went out 

 primarily for scientific purposes, were instructed to keep a 

 sharp lookout for the Jeannette, and to consider it an im- 

 portant part of their duty. The first of these was under the 

 command of Lieutenant Greely, with a station at Lady 

 Franklin Bay, in Smith Sound ; and the second was located 

 at. Point Barrow, the northern extremity of Alaska, under 

 command of Lieutenant Ray. 



Nor were the Search Expeditions of 1881 confined to the 

 United States. England was represented by Mr. Leigh 

 Smith, a private gentleman, who, in his little yacht, the Eira, 

 gallantly took upon himself the task of searching in the re- 

 gion of Franz Josef Land; an exploring expedition under 

 Dutch auspices, in the ship Wilhelm Barentz, volunteered to 

 make the search for the Jeannette a part of its programme ; 

 Russian men-of-war were directed to do what they could for 

 the discovery and relief of the lost explorers ; the nomad 

 inhabitants of Northern Siberia were requested to be on the 

 lookout for any survivors of the expedition who might reach 

 their coast ; and M. Soulkowsky, a Russian, traveled over- 

 land from Irkutsk to Bering's Strait, through Siberia, on 

 the same errand. 



The first Jeannette Search Expedition to leave the United 

 States in the year 1881, steamed out of San Francisco harbor 

 in the revenue steamer Corwin, on the 4th day of May. The 

 occasion was one of much friendly interest, and thousands 

 of people assembled to witness the departure of the explorers. 

 The officers of the Corwin on this voyage were as follows : 



Captain Charles L. Hooper, Commander. 



First Lieutenant, W. J. Herring. Second Lieutenant, E. Burke. 

 Third Lieutenants, O. B. Myrick, George H. Doty, Wm. E. Reynolds. 

 Chief Engineer, J. T. Wayson. Assistant Engineers, C. A. Laws, E. 

 Owen. 

 Surgeon, Irving C. Rosse. Scientist, Professor John Muir. 



