864 THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE. 



mander De Long and his comrades from the tomb on 

 the Lena Delta, for which purpose the United States 

 government had appropriated the sum of twenty-five 

 thousand dollars. They made the search, but did not 

 visit Semanovski Island, and in the spring of 1883 

 reached Yakutsk, bringing with them the remains. 



One further attempt by the United States govern- 

 ment to communicate with the Jeannette during her 

 absence should be noted. In the spring of 1881 the 

 United States Steamer Alliance, Commander George 

 H. Wadleigh, at the instance of Mr. Bennett, was or- 

 dered to search for the missing vessel between Green- 

 land, Iceland, and the coast of Norway and Spitz- 

 bergen, with instructions to proceed as far north as 

 77° 45', if it should be possible to get there without 

 danger from the ice. The Alliance cruised through- 

 out the summer and took every means to learn of the 

 Jeannette, and to make known her errand along the 

 coasts and among the fishing vessels, but returned to 

 the United States in the fall without accomplishing the 

 main object of her cruise, though she ascended as high 

 as latitude 82° N., and showed how much could be 

 done with a vessel not originally designed for Arctic 

 exploration. 



