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tude 44° 5". They saw from 2,000 feet elevation no land to the northwest, but 

 to the northeast Greenland yet extended, lost to view in Cape Robert Lincoln, 

 latitude 83° 35", longitute 38°. Lieut. Lockwood was turned back in 1883 by 

 open water on the North Greenland shore, the party barely escaping drifting into 

 the polar ocean. Dr. Parry, in 1882, following the Markham route, was adrift 

 one day in the polar ocean north of Cape Joseph Henry and escaped to land, 

 abandoning nearly everything. In 1882 I made a spring, and later a summer 

 trip into the interior of Grinnell Land, discovering Lake Hazen, some sixty by 

 ten- miles in extent, which is fed by ice. The Cape of North Grinnell Land 

 drains Ruggles River and Weyprecht fiord into Conybear's Bay and Archer fiord. 



From the summit of Mount Arthur, 5,000 feet, the contour of the land west 

 of Conger Mountain convinced me that Grinnell Land tends directly south from 

 Lieut. Aldrich's farthest trip in 1876. In 1883 Lieut. Lockwood and Sergeant 

 Brainard succeeded in crossing Grinnell Land, and ninety miles from Beautux 

 Bay, the head of Archer's fiord, struck the head of a fiord from the Western Sea, 

 temporarily named by Lockwood, Greely fiord. From the center of the fiord, 

 in latitude 80° 30', longitude 78° 30', Lieut. Lockwood saw the northern shore 

 termination some twenty miles west, the southern shore extending some fifty 

 miles with Cape Lockwood some seventy distant, apparently separate land from 

 Grinnell Land. He named the new land Arthur Land. Lieut. Lockwood fol- 

 lowed, going and returning, an ice cape averaging about 150 feet perpeendicu- 

 lar face. It follows that Grinnell Land in the interior is ice-capped with a belt 

 of country some sixty miles wide between the northern and southern ice capes. 

 In March, 1884, Sergeant Long, while hunting, looked from the northwest side 

 of Mount Carey to Hayes' Sound, seeing on the northern coast three capes west- 

 ward of the farthest seen by Nares in 1876. The sound extends some twenty 

 miles farther west than shown by the English chart, but is possibly shut in by 

 land which showed up across the western end. The two years station duties, 

 observations, all explorations and the retreat to Cape Sabine were accomplished 

 without loss of life, disease, serious accident or even severe frost bites. No 

 scurvy was experienced at Conger and but one death from it occurred last winter. 

 [Signed] Greely, Commanding. 



A second dispatch from Lieutenant Greely was as follows : 



St. Johns, July 17th. 

 Chief Signal Officer, Washington : 



Brainard, Biederback, Connell, Fredericks, Long and myself, sole survivors, 

 arrived to-day, having been rescued at the point of death from starvation by the 

 relief ships, Thetis and Bear, June 22, at Camp Clay, northwest of Cape Sabine. 

 All are now in good health, but weak. Sergeant Ellison was rescued, but died 

 July 6. Cross died last January; Christiansen, Linn, Rice, Lockwood, Jewell 

 and Edwards in April; Ellis, Ralston, Whistler, and Israel in May; Kislingbury 

 Salor, Henry, Bender, Pavy, Gardner and Schneider in June. We abandoned 

 Fort Conger August 9, were frozen in a pack off Victoria Head August 29, 



