Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of huge hum-mocks were piled everywhere over the surface, whichwas also split up and full of treacherous holes, intowhich many a flounder took place. The party onreaching the ship was made heartily welcome, andas comfortable as the means at our command couldsupply. They appeared tired and weatherbeaten, butin good spirits and thankful at having fallen in witha ^ Scotch whaler, for which vessels they were on thelookout, knowing as the commander did, that thewhalers about this time passed through Melville Bay. After reaching the North Water, Captain Budding-ton and ten of his companions were transferred tothe whaling steamer Arctic, and arrived at Dundeeon the 18th of September. Proceeding to Liverpool,they were tendered a free passage homo by severalsteamship lines, and took passage in the City of Ant-w^erp, which reached New York on the 4th of October.The other three men were taken to Dundee in theIntrepid, and arrived home a little later. ii;vniir!ri,vi;n!nFi;ffii!fi!ii!ftiiM«iii i,
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CHAPTER L.GERMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. Dr. Augustus Peteemai^n, having unsuccessfullyincited his German countrymen to join the nobleband of Arctic explorers, at his own risk fitted out atiny vessel called the Germania, which sailed fromBergen, May 24th, 1868, under the command of KarlKoldewey, a native of Hoya, in Hanover. The wholecrew numbered only eleven men. Being unable toapproach the east coast of Greenland, Capt. Koldeweymade for the Spitzbergen seas, and attained a latitudeof 81*^ 5. He then sailed down Hinlopen Straitin August, sighting the Swedish Foreland, andreturned to Bergen September 30th, 1868. This first German expedition was not a success—neither was it a failure; and Dr. Petermann and hisfriends were not discouras^ed. It awakened an inter-est in Polar exploration which resulted in a secondexpedition of two vessels—a screw steamer re-namedthe Germania and manned by a crew of seventeen,and the brig Hansa, with a crew of fourteen, underthe command of Capt. Hegemann.

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