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Title: The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hartwig, G. (Georg), 1813-1880 Guernsey, Alfred Hudson, 1824-1902
Subjects: Arctic peoples Natural history Antarctica Arctic regions Tropics
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : J.W. Lyon
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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Nova Zembla, and discovered, at thenorth-east extremity of the island, the remains of the winter encampment established275 years before by the Dutch navigator Barentz, just as Hall, in his first expedition,found relics of the expedition of Frobisher, which had remained almost twenty yearslonger. Ulve and Smyth also sailed to the north of Spitzbergen, and found openwater as high as latitude 80° 27. In 1872 Octave Pavy, a young Frenchmanresident of New Orleans, made proposals for an expedition, which was to leave SanFrancisco for Kamchatka, and endeavor to reach the Polar Sea by the way of BeringsStrait. He projected an India rubber raft, which when inflated would carry the crewand 10,000 pounds of freight, but which was so light that when not in use it couldbe packed in a barrel, and so conveyed over land. But there is no account that thisidea has been carried into effect. It remains only to describe, as far as is now known, the last Polar expeditionundertaken by Charles Francis HalL
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THE LAST EXFEDlTlOxN OF CHARLES FllANCIS HALL. 7^7 CHAPTER XLIV. THE LAST EXPEDITION OF CHARLES FRANCIS HALL. Charles Francis Hall.—His second Expedition.—His last Expedition.—The Polaris.—Officersand Crew.—Setting out.—A slight Dispute.—Off for the Pole—Halls farewell Dispatch.—The next Tidings.—The rescued Nineteen.—Their Story.—Voyage to the highestLatitudes.—Taking up Winter Quarters.—Halls last Sledge Journey.—His last Dispatch.—The Return to the Polaris.—Sickness and Death of Hall.—Buddington takes Command.— Winter in the Ice.—Aspects of the Region.—Accident to the Polaris.—A Boat Expedi-tion.—Starting for Home.—The Polaris in Peril.—Taking to the Ice.—The Separation.—The Parting on the Ice.—Herrons Jourmil.—October: Abandoned.—A Fortnights Wait-ing.—November: Trying for the Shore.—A Godsend.—Arausements.—Beginning to Drift.—Killing the Dogs —A Thanksgiving Dinner.—December: Adrift.—Eating Seal Skin, and

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