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THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



believe De Long built cairns and left notice of his progress 

 there, if he was not prevented from landing by heavy 

 weather or ice. Spitsbergen and Nova Zembla will be inter- 

 national stations, and England will search Franz Josef Land 

 on all its coasts and sounds with a large government expe- 

 dition, for the Jeannette and for Leigh Smith. Five hun- 

 dred whalers, walrus-hunters, and sealers will search for 

 the Jeannette at the edge of the pack in all the seas that 

 they frequent, from the Kara Sea to Spitzbergen and East 

 Greenland, up Lancaster Sound, and in Bering Sea. Lieu- 

 tenant Ray, at Point Barrow, will probably be able to search 

 half way to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, and Lieu- 

 tenant Greely, at Lady Franklin Bay, will probably go 

 northwest to Cape Joseph Henry." 



Only three days after the above extract was published, 

 tidings of the missing explorers startled the civilized world 

 and rendered further search for the Jeannette unnecessary. 



