Arctic Expedition
“Amid our national troubles the public seems to have forgotten the expedition of Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes and his companions to the Arctic regions, in search of more definite information regarding the open polar sea reported by Dr. Elisha Kent Kane. Since the fall of 1860, when the explorers were at Uppernavic, nothing has been heard of them. In the dismal regions of perpetual snow these heroic Americans are struggling to extend geographic science amid the icebergs of the north, altogether unconscious of the more painful struggle between man and man now taking place in their native land.”
The day after this went to press, news arrived by telegraph from Halifax that Dr. Hayes had arrived there safely, unsuccessful in his mission.
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