Identifier: sciencerecordcom1874beac (find matches)
Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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CAPTAIN CHARLES F. HALL. A strange, eventful history, more like the fiction ofthe romancer than the recital of plain, unvarnished fact, isthe narrative of the last American arctic expedition underthe command of the lamented Hall. The steamer Polaris, it will be remembered, was fitted 524 SCIENCE RECORD. out for arctic service in the New-York Navy-Yard, duringthe summer of 1871, and under the immediate supervisionof her commander, Captain Charles F. Hall. Leaving theport, she touched at St. Johns, Newfoundland, and in the
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early part of August met the United States steamer Con-gress at Disco, Greenland, from which vessel she receivedher final supplies. On the 24th of August, 1871, after pur-chasing Esquimaux dogs, skins, and other necessaries, GEOGRAPHY. 525 Captain Hall wrote his adieu to civilization from Tessin-sack, Greenland, and sailed for the North Pole. The ship, according to the statement of the survivors,proceeded to the north through Smiths Sound, which, is

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