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Title: In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his companions
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912 Philips, M. (Melville), ed
Subjects: Greely relief expedition. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ward and deluged both of us, but chieflythe whale-boat, which nearly filled. It started me to myfeet, and I shouted down the wind to De Long that Imust run or swamp. He appeared to realize the peril ofour situation at once; for the next instant, as the sea sweptover and around us, lie waved his arm in an energeticmanner motioning me onward or from him, and at thesame time hallooed some message which was lost in thenoise of the gale. However, I felt that we understoodeach other ; that if I would save my boat and crew Imust run for it; that to lay alongside of De Long meantquick destruction; and that if either of the open andoverladen boats should swamp or roll over, the othercould not possibly rescue the unfortunate crew. So when De Long waved me permission to leave him,I hoisted sail, shook out one reef, and as we gathered waythe boat shot forward like an arrow, and the spray flewabout us like feathers. Heretofore we had been runningdead before the wind on our southwest course for the
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RETREATING OVER THE PACK. 65 land, but the heavy sea and lively motion of the boatcaused the sail to jibe and fill on the other tack, where-upon we would broach to and ship water. For this reasonI hauled up the boat several points or closer to the wind,and our condition at once improved. Now that we wereseparated I resolved to concern myself directly with thesafety of my own boat; so that when one of the mensaid that De Long was signaling us, I told him he mustbe wrong, and further directed that no one should seeany signals now that we were cast upon our own re-sources. The whale-boat was leaping forward at a spankingrate and fast distancing the first cutter, when, hearinganother of the crew exclaim that De Long was signalingChipp, I turned around and looked back over my leftshoulder towards where I expected the second cutterwould be. For an instant she was not to be seen, butpresently I saw her far off in the dim twilight rise fullbefore the wind on the crest of a wave, and then sink

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