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THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



yards from the untenable ship. After about two hours' 

 work we succeeded in shifting; all our goods and our three 

 boats to it. We then turned in. 



About four o'clock I was awakened by Seaman Kuehne 

 calling his relief, Fireman Bartlett, who was in our tent. 

 Kuehne called to Bartlett that the ship was sinking, and the 

 latter jumped to the tent door and saw the spars of the 

 Jeannette after the hull was below the surface. We heard 

 the crash, but those were the only two men who saw the ves- 

 sel disappear. It was said that the ice first closed upon her, 

 then relaxing allowing the wreck to sink ; the yards caught 

 across the ice and broke off, but being held by the lifts and 

 braces were carried down ; depth, thirty-eight fathoms, as I 

 remember. 



The next morning the captain and others visited the 

 spot, and found only one cabin chair and a few pieces of 

 wood, all that remained of our old and good friend, the 

 Jeannette, which for many months had endured the embrace 

 of the Arctic monster. 





