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only able to stir out by joint assistance. When Long got clear 

 of the entanglement of the tent, which had been swept to the 

 ground, he rose to his feet with great difficulty, and succeeded in 

 clambering up to a rock that gave the most extensive view in that 

 neighborhood. Brainerd went back to the tent, but Long re- 

 mained, looking out searchiugly in every direction for some 

 strange object. At length he SM.W the unwonted sight of a large 

 black object about a mile distant, which at first looked like a 

 rock, but he knew there was no rock in that line. Suddenly the 

 advancing steam launch changed its course, and Long recognized 

 the approach of the rescuers. He came down from the rock, 

 went toward the camp, raised the flag-pole and flag, which had 

 been blown down during a gale, and held it for about two minnts, 

 until his strength gave out, and it was blown once more to the 

 ground. 



The look-out from the steam launch had spied Long, and under 

 a full head of steam drove through bursting billows with all pos- 

 sible speed toward the nearest point for landing, while Long tot- 

 tered in the direction of the little vessel, falling at every few 

 paces from sheer weakness, but rising again under the stimulating 

 influence of hope, until at length, within nearly half a mile of 

 the place where the tug had landed, he fell into the arms of Cap- 

 tain Ash, who was the first of the relief party to reach him. 

 Brainerd was too weak to follow, and had to remain by the tent, 

 where he prayed that the hope which had suddenly sprung into 

 being might not prove the delusive dream of a chaotic mind. 



Capt. Ash pushed on quickly to ward the tent, with Commander 

 Schley and five men, upon reaching which a sight met their gaze 

 which beggars description. 



Camp Clay, into which Lieutenant Greely and his entire party 

 moved on November 1, 1883, was situated about five miles west 

 of Cape Sabine, in a little cove, about the same distance from 

 Cocked Hat Island. This site was selected because it was near 

 the scattered provisions that they found there, and because there 

 were plenty of small rocks near by with which to build the house, 

 the party being too weak to transport them from any distance. 



