On Wrangel Land. Wreckage Found on the Beach-Condition of the Soil. Improbability of Any Landing Having Been Made by Captain DeLong. Difficulties Which Beset the Corwin-Narrow Escape from the Ice. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) . Steamer Corwin, Off Point Barrow, Alaska, August 17, 1881.
""The Corwin made a very short stay on Wrangel Land, only about two hours . Captain Hooper, Mr. Nelson and myself examined a mile or two of the left bank of the river . and a stretch of smooth beach at its mouth, while a party of officers, after erecting a cairn, depositing records in it,...
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San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 22, 1881
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| Summary: | ""The Corwin made a very short stay on Wrangel Land, only about two hours . Captain Hooper, Mr. Nelson and myself examined a mile or two of the left bank of the river . and a stretch of smooth beach at its mouth, while a party of officers, after erecting a cairn, depositing records in it, and getting the flag on the edge of the bluff fronting the ocean, went northeastward along the brow of the shore bluff . searching carefully for traces of the Jeanette explorers, and of any native inhabitants . ""Then all were suddenly and hastily summoned aboard, and Muir writes, ""we escaped with difficulty . the lane by which we entered having almost vanished . "" |
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