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cliffs on the river Lena is echoed a hundred times. The great distance to which 

 small sounds are sometimes transmitted is also worthy of record. The first time 

 this acoustic clearness of the atmosphere came under observation was at St. 

 Michael's, where a conversation carried on at an incredible distance could 

 be distinctly heard. Amid the grim silence and desolation of Wrangel Land, at 

 a time, too, when the air was acoustically opaque for this latitude, I distinctly 

 heard our boatswain, a small man, with a squeaky voice, giving orders two miles, 

 while laughter and sounds of the voice, when any one spoke above the ordinary 

 tone, were heard with such amazing distinctness as to suggest telephonic com- 

 munication. 



THE JEANNETTE'S FATE. 



By the schooner Golden Fleece, which arrived on Saturday from the Arctic, 

 the brothers Krause, who passed through here some months since, the agents of 

 the Bremen Geographical Society, have returned. The most open season in 

 thirty years enabled them to make observations as far north as the neighborhood 

 of Point Barrow, beyond the usual line of the ice fields. It is their belief from 

 what they have experienced in the latitudes which they visited that if the Jean- 

 nette is not heard from this year, say within six weeks, she will never return. 

 There are no settlements beyond the Siberian points where she was last heard 

 from, and here the traces of the Rodgers cease also. Although in the Arctic 

 Ocean, north of Behring Straits, the sea is so well open, along the Siberian coast 

 it is ice-packed. Dr. Krause, the elder, has but little hope, therefore, that the 

 Jeannette will ever again return, although it is just barely possible in his mind 

 that she may. — San Francisco Chronicle. 



OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE CORWIN'S CRUISE. 



Interesting details of the Corwin's cruise in the Arctic are contained in a 

 letter received Saturday at the Treasury Department from Capt. C. L. Hooper, 

 dated at San Francisco, October 22nd. It is in the form of a preliminary report, 

 and recounts the recent experiences of the cutter in the Arctic Ocean and Behr- 

 ings Straits. Capt. Hooper says they sailed from St. Michael's July 9th, the 

 date of his last report, and proceeded north, touching at Golowin Bay, Sledge 

 Island, Kings Island, Cape Prince of Wales, Cape Espenberg and the head 

 of Kotzebell Sound. They sighted the bark Northern Light, and learned that 

 the whaling bark Daniel Webster was in the ice-pack to the northward. They 

 made an attempt to get up the coast in shore of the pack to learn her fate, but 

 I'ound tliat impossible. 



The top of H'jrald Island was searclied for traces of the Jeannette and niiss- 

 my whaiL-is. All iiroiiiinent points were carefully examined for cairns, hu* none 



