Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Greenland, 8 Nov. 1871. Becom-ing interested in the fate of the Franklin expedi-tion, he devoted his leisure to gathering informa-tion about -Arctic .America, and made two searchexpeditions, in 1860-2 and 1864-9, living aloneamong the Eskimo, and bringing back relics ofthe Franklin expedition and the supposed bonesof one of Franklins company. Natives whomhe encountered in 1869 near the southern shoreof King William Land gave him a report of thefate of 79 of the 105 who perished by starvationin that region. He thus contributed much tothe details of the expeditions final histor>-. In1871 he sailed in command of the governmentship Polaris, on an expedition to the NorthPole. On 29 .August he reached 82° n N., atthat date the highest north latitude ever reached.Then turning south he went into winter quartersat Thank God Harbor. Greenland (81° 38 N.).Here he was taken suddenly ill, and died. Overhis grave a grateful epitaph was placed by theBritish polar expedition in 1876. His compan-
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ASAPH HALL, PROFESSOK l)F ASTRONOMY. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. HALL ions left Thank God Harbor in August, 1872,but in October, through the ice-anchor sHpping,19 men were left with stores on a floe, and onlyafter five months of severe suffering? were theyrescued by a scaler off the Labrador coast in thefollowing April. The Polaris drifted to thecoast of Greenland, at a point not far south ofSmith Sound, and thence in the spring the partyset out in boats and was rescued by the Scotchwhaler Ravenscraig,* off Cape York. Amongthe valuable results of Halls work were theexploration of Kennedy channel, the discovery ofRobeson Channel and Hall Basin, and the exten-sion of Greenland and Grinnell Land ij^^ N.Hall was less a scientist than a fearless andresourceful explorer. He published ArcticResearches, and Life among the Esquimaux*(1864); and mainly from his papers was com-piled the Narrative of the Second Arctic Expe-dition (1879). Hall, Charles Winslow, American lawyerand author: b. Chelsea, Mass.

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