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made and soundings taken of all harbors. Two hundred miles of telegraph wire 

 were placed on board and constant telephonic communication was to be kept up 

 with parties on shore at a distance from the ship. Last, but not least, the expe- 

 dition was provided with an electric Hght of immense power, presented by Edi- 

 son. Mr. Collins, the scientist of the expedition, gave a good deal of attention 

 to the study of the winds and currents and hoped to be enabled on his return, as 

 the result of his observation, to solve some knotty problems which have hereto- 

 fore perplexed our meteorologists. 



The Jeannette had on board thirty-three souls — twenty-five forward and eight 

 aft. The commander, George W. DeLong, was a man a little above the medium 

 height, well-built, active in his movements, and thirty-five years of age. He was 

 born in New York City, and graduated a:t the Naval Academy in 1865. He was 

 married, his wife being a daughter of Capt. James A. Wotten, an old steamship 

 commander and formerly superintendent and part owner of the famous New York 

 and Havre Line of Steamships. Mrs. DeLong accompanied her husband in the 

 Jeannette from Havre to San Francisco, a voyage which lasted 165 days, and 

 afterward in a trip overland to New York and back to San Francisco. 



Lieut. Charles W. Chipp, U. S N., the executive officer of the Jeannette, 

 was born in Kingston, N. Y.; thirty years of age and unmarried. He was with 

 Capt. DeLong in the Little Juniata. 



Lieut. John W. Danenhauer, U. S. N., was the ]ra,vigator of the expedition. 

 He was born in Chicago, 111.; thirty years of age and unmarried. 



Passed Assistant Surgeon James M. M. Ambler, U. S. N. , was the surgeon. 

 He was born in Fauquier County, Va.; thirty-one years of age and unmarried. 



Chief Engineer George W. Melville, U. S N. , the engineer of the Jeannette, 

 was born in New York City, 1841. He has a wife and three children living in 

 New York. 



Jerome J. Collins, the scientist of the expedition, was a native of Ireland 

 and thirty-eight years of age. He is an accomplished engineer, and thoroughly 

 versed in astronomy, botany and the kindred sciences ; unmarried. 



Raymond L. Newcomb was a native of Salem. Mass.; twenty-nine years of 

 age and unmarried. He was the naturalist and taxidermist of the expedition. 



William Dunbar, the ice-pilot, was a native of New London, Conn., and 

 forty-five years age. 



The Jeannette left San Francisco July 8, 1879. She was heard of twice 

 through the Herald correspondent on board, who wrote long and interesting let- 

 ters from lUiolionk Station, in the harbor of Oonalaska, and St. Lawrence ^Bay, 

 detaihng the doings of the party up to August 27 th of that year. In 1880, ac- 

 cording to Danish authority, a steamer's smoke was seen near the mouth of the 

 Lena River by the Yakuts living there, but in the transmission of this story from 

 tribe to tribe, from the mouth of the Lena west to the Kara Sea, where the wal- 

 rus hunters heard it, it was no doubt somewhat changed. Nothing further was 

 heard of the Jeannette for a year and a half, but no grave apprehensions were en- 

 tertained until the spring of last year. Then there began to be much anxiety, 



