The far North : explorations in the Arctic regions / by Elisha Kent Kane.

  • Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857.
Date:
1886
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Credit: The far North : explorations in the Arctic regions / by Elisha Kent Kane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    friends of science besides, had come forward to help me; and by their aid I managed to secure a better outfit for purposes of observation than would otherwise have been possible to a party so limited in numbers, and absorbed in other objects. Ten of our little party belonged to the United States Navy, and were attached to my command by orders from the Department; the others were shipped by me for the cruise, and at salaries entirely disproportioned to their services: all were volunteers. We did not sail under the rules that govern our national ships; but we had our own regulations, well considered and announced beforehand, and rigidly adhered to afterward through all the vicissi- tudes of the expedition. These included—first, absolute Bubordination to the officer in command, or his delegate; second, abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, except .when dispensed by special order; third, the habitual disuse of profane language. We had no other laws. All hands counted, we were eighteen at the time of sailing. Another joined us a few days afterward; so that the party under my command, as it reached the coast of Greenland, consisted of— Elisha Kent Kane, Commander. Henky Brooks, First OiScer. I^aao I. Hayes, M.D., Surgeon. John Wall Wilson. August Sontaq, Astronomer. James M'Qart. Amos Bonsall. Georok Riley. O^o'^^^ Stephenson. William Morton. G^o^™ Whipple. Christian Ohlsen. William Godfrey. Henry Qoodfbllow. John Blake. Jefferson Baker. Peter Sohudkrt. Thomas Hiokey. Two of these, Brooks and Morton, had been my associates