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The following-named persons, fourteen of the officers and 

 crew of the Jeannette, reached this place yesterday after- 

 noon, on foot, from the Arctic Ocean. 



GEORGE W. DE LONG, 

 Commander of Expedition, Lieutenant U. 8. Navy, 



Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward it to 

 the Secretary of the Navy, with a note of the time and place 

 at which it was found. 



[Copies of the above in six languages followed.] 



Lieutenant BELONG. A. GORTZ, L. P. NOROS. 



P. A. Surgeon J. A. AMBLER. G. H. BOYD. W. LEE. 



Mr. J. J. COLLINS. N. IVERSON. AH SAM. 



W. F. C. NlNDERMANN. A DRESSLEU. ALEXY. 



H. H. ERICKSON. H. H. KAACK. 



The Jeannette was crushed and sunk by the ice on the 

 12th of June, 1881, in latitude 77 deg. 15 min. north, longi- 

 tude 155 deg., after having drifted twenty-two months in 

 the tremendous pack-ice of this ocean. The entire thirty- 

 three persons composing her officers and crew dragged three 

 boats and provisions over the ice to latitude 76 deg. 38 min. 

 north, longitude 150 deg. 30 min. east, where we landed 

 upon a new island Bennett Island on the 29th of July. 

 From thence we proceeded southward in boats, sometimes 

 dragging over ice, until, the 10th of September, we reached 

 Semenoffski Island, ninety miles northeast of this delta. 

 We sailed from there in company on the 12th of September, 

 but that same night we were separated in a gale of wind, 

 and I have seen nothing since of the two other boats or their 

 people. They were divided as follows : 



SECOND CUTTER. Lieutenant Chipp, Mr. Dunbar, A. Sweetman, 

 W. Sharvell, E. Star, H. D. Warren, A. P. Kuehne, and P. Johnson. 



WHALE-BOAT. Past Assistant Engineer Melville, Master Danenhower, 

 Mr. Newcomb, J. Cole, J. H. Bartlett, H. Wilson, S. Lauderback, F, 

 Mansen, Charles Tong Sing, Anequin, and H. W. Leach. 



My boat, having weathered the gale, made the land on 

 the morning of the 16th inst., and after trying to get in 

 shore for two days, and being prevented by shoal water, we 

 abandoned the boat, and waded to the beach, carrying our 



