Near Cape Serdze. Rejoined by the Land Party-Confirmation of the Discovery of Wreck of the Vigilant-List of Relics Recovered. Steamer Corwin (Off the Tchuchi Village of Tapikan, near Cape Serdze, Siberia), June 29, 1881.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Arctic; Jagged; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/160; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1159/viewcontent/118.pdf

Written, June 29, 1881 Pub. Aug. 15 FlOlf THE ICY HOETH. Gorwin CoBfrinatiO'H m 'the Wreck the' Tigilant. 8 il List of Belies KecoYeretl by the Esquimos. Yisit to the Villages of the Bead on St. Laurence Island. Tfce GJiastly WoA of am Arctic Famine. TheCorwim Eaflttiag for Anothex Cruise— jProgramaie of the Voyage. [SPECIAL cobkespondence op the BULLETIN.] NEAE CAPE SEBBZE. Rejoined by tlie '.and Party—Confirmation ot the Discovery of Wreck of tlie Vigilant—lAst of Relics Recovered. Steamer CoitwiN/Off the Tchuchj i Village of Tapkan, near Cape Serdze, SiberjaJ', June 29, 1881.) We arrived here about .V'this morning to meet the search party that we had landed about a month ago, near Kolinchin-- Island. They had been waiting here tor us nearly two weeks. We were unable to land owtng-to.the stormy weather, but after waiting about two hours we saw them making their way out to the edge of the drift ice, which extended about three miles from shore, ana after a good deal of difficulty reached the steamer in safety. The air was gray with falling snow, and the north wind was blowing hard, flashing heavy swellsagatnst jagged, tumbling "ice. blocks that formed the edge of the*, with wild,.tumultuous uproar. The iife-boat was lowered and pulled to the edge of the pack and a line thrown from it to the most advanced of the party, who was balancing himself among the heaving bergs. This ime was made fast to a light skin-boat that the party had pushed out over the ice from the shore, and, getting into It, they soon managed to get, themselves fairly launched and free from the tossing, wave-dashed ice which mo. mentarily threatened to engulf them. GQKSTJRMAIIOH OF THE DISCOVEP.Y OF THE—WTTECTT ' j OP THE VIGILANT. -—"I Mr. Herring, the officer in charge, reported that I they had proceeded along the coast as far as (jape Wapjjirem and had been so fortunate as to ac- . --- ''comphsh the main objects ot their mission, viz.: to determine the value of the stories prevalent among the natives to tne southward of here concerning the ...