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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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e Tigress, built expressly for navi-gation in the ice, has been purchased and brought to New York, there to be fitted upfor a voyage to the far north. She set sail on the 18th of July, with orders, first ofall, to find if possible, the Polaris and her crew. That failing, she was to push north-ward, and endeavor to complete the work begun by Hall. At best, however, shecannot be expected to reach the icy seas during the summer of 1873. So that,assuming that she sets out from Greenland, in the summer of 1874, and finds the TIIE LAST EXPEDITION OF CHARLES FRANCIS HALL. 775 Polaris and her crew at or near Northumberland Island, another year must passbefore we can know more than we now know of the results of Halls last expedition.Till then it is right and just that judgment should be suspended as to the real causeof the death of Hall, and the conduct of those who after that event had command inthe expedition. Thus rests the matter in the closing days of July, 1873. i> 70 THE POLAR WORLD.
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OFFICERS OF THE POLAHIS. THE LAST EXPEDITION OF CHARLES FRANCIS HALL. / / CHAPTER XLV. THE FATE OF THE POLARIS. The Search for the Polaris.—The First Tidings.—Second Tidings of the Safety of the Crew.—The Search for tlie Tigress.—At Nortiiumberland Island.—At Littleton Island.—Greet-ing by the Esquimaux.—Last of the Polaris.—The Abandoned Hut.—Close of the Search.—The Escape of the Crew of the Polaris.—The Separation in the Ice.—Beacliing tlioVessel.—Preparations for the Winter.—Forebodings for the Future.—Chester, the RightMan for the Emergency.—Building the Boats.—The Scurvy.—Getting off.—Skirting theIce.—At Hakluyt Island.—Fighting a Whale.—The Rescue.—Arrival at Dundee.—Recep-tion of the News.—Results of the Expedition.—Finis. IN the preceding chapter has been narrated the voyage of the Polaris to the mostextreme northern point ever as yet reached by civilized man, together with theuntimely death of Charles Francis Hall, her nobl

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