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ing a tremendous strain on the ship, heeling her over to starboard and forcing 

 the deck seams open. This continued during the day at intervals until evening, 

 when it was evident the ship couM not much longer hold together. The boats 

 were lowered on the ice, and provisions, arms, tents, alcohol, sledges and al 

 necessary equipment for a retreat securely placed on the floe. By 6 P. M. the 

 ship had entirely filled with water and lay-over at an angle of about twenty-two 

 degrees being kept from sinking by the opposing , edges of the floe. On the 

 morning of the 13th day of June, about 4 o'clock, the ice opened and the ship 

 went down with colors flying at the masthead. Latitude 77° 15' north, longitude 

 157° east. 



" We remained six days on the ice organizing our system and the line of 

 march south, during which time we had resumed a rapid drift to the northwest. 

 On June 24th having marched south one week and obtained observations for posi- 

 tion, we found we had drifted to latitude 74° 32' north, a loss of twenty-four 

 miles northwest. 



"We continued our march south and west and finally landed on Bennett 

 Island July 29th. Hoisted the national flag and took possession of the island. 

 It is located in north latitude 76° 38', east longitude 150° 30'. We traversed 

 the eastern end of the island. 



"Left it August 6th, and sighted the north side of Thaddeus (Faddeyev) 

 Island, one of the New Siberia group, and remained there ten days ice bound. 

 Landed on the south side of Thaddeus Island August 31st. Left south end of 

 Kotelnoi Island September 6th. Camped in sight of Stolhoi Island September 

 7th. Landed on Simonaski Island September loth. 



"We left for Barkin, at the Lena's mouth, September 12th. Separated by 

 a gale of wind the same night." 



The list of people in the boats as follows. 



First Cutter. — Lieutenant DeLong, Dr. Ambler, Jerome J. Collins, Wil- 

 ham Nindeman, Louis Norris, Hans Erikson, Henry Knack, Adolf Bressler, 

 Carl Gortz, Walter Lee, Neils Ivorson, George Boyd, Alexia, Ah Lorn. 



Second Cutter. — Lieutenant Chipp, Captain Dunbar, Alfred Sweetman, 

 Henry Waxen, Peter Johnson, Edward Star, Shawell, Albert Kaihne. 



Whale Boat. — Engineer Melville, Lieutenant Danenhauer, Jack Cole, James 

 Bartlett, Raymond Newcomb, Herbert Leach, George Landentach, Henry Wil- 

 son, Manson, Aniquin, Long. 



Fifty miles from the mouth of the Lena they lost sight of each other during 

 a violent gale and dense fog. Boat No. 3, under command of Engineer Melville, 

 reached the eastern mouth of the Lena on the 29th day of September, and was 

 stopped by icebergs near the hamlet of Idolaciro-Idolatre on the 29th day of Oc- 

 tober. There also arrived at Bolonenga boat No. i, with the sailors, Nindeman 

 and Norris. They brought the information that Lieutenant DeLong, Dr. Amb- 

 ler, and a dozen other survivors, had landed at the northern mouth of the Lena, 

 where they were in a most distressing state, many having their limbs frozen. 



Lieut. Danenhauer, who was in the Melville party, says in one of his letters 



