64 THE HIGHEST POINT EVER REACHED. 



these exploring parties succeeded in pushing farther north 

 than any discoverer had ever done before. It is briefly 

 described in a dispatch from Greely to the Signal Office on 

 his homeward voyage in 1884: — " For the first time in three 

 centuries England yields the honor of the farthest north. 

 Lieut. Lockwood and Sergeant Brainerd, May 13, reached 

 Lockwood Land, lat. 83^ 24' N., long. 44^ 5' W. They saw 

 from 2,000 ft. elevation no land north or N.W , but to north- 

 east Greenland, Cape Robert Lincoln, lat. 83° 35', long. 38°. 

 Lieut. Lockwood was turned back in 1883 by open water on 

 North Greenland shore, the party barely escaping drift into 

 the Polar Ocean. Dr. Pavy, in 1882, followed Markham's 

 route, was adrift one day in the Polar Ocean, north of Cape 

 Joseph Henry, and escaped to land abandoning nearly every- 

 thino" "********* 



This unparalleled reach was made May 13th, 1882. 

 Parry, in 1827 reached lat. 79°. Dr. Kane, in 1854, lat. 

 80° 30'. Dr. Hayes, 81° 31 in 1861. Hall, 82° 17^ in 1871 

 and Nares, 83° 20' in 1876. Lieut. Lockwood reached 83° 

 24', being four miles farther north than civilized man had 

 ever been before, but saw and computed 83° 35', which most 

 northern point he named Cape itobert Lincoln. Lieut. 

 Greely himself, in the summer of '82, discovered Lake Hazen 

 in the interior of Grinnell Land. This Lake, about one-fourth 

 the size of Lake Erie, is the most northern body of fresh 

 water on the globe. Lying near this were two ranges named 

 respectively after Senator Conger and the late President 

 Garfield. Here were found evidences of a former Esquimaux 

 Village, in all probability, the most northern habitation ever 

 attempted by man. 



Lieut. Greely's instructions, before leaving the United 

 States, had been to remain at Lady Franklin Bay two years. 

 Vessels were to be sent to the station in 1882, and also in 

 1883, which were to bring " supplies for, and such additions 

 to, the present party as are deemed needful." If these vessels 



