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Show The I!ttli1iii:;loii version of IsuU's icn(Ii. New York, 1 A special correspondent correspon-dent of the Trt''inic at Dundee, gives interesting details of the adventures adven-tures of the rescued ,erev ol the Polari-v, Buddington :id Schumann Schu-mann tell the r-tory of Capt un Hall's death as follows: SehuirqMin, the first engineer, says that, after bis return re-turn from tho northern sledge jotirnev on coming into the cabin, the Captain turned sick, and alter lying down vomited a great deal. He would not taste anything at first, and afterwards asked tor a cup of tea. lie got the tea, but h;td nn sooner p irtnken of it than the vomiting : returned more violently vio-lently than b; r.'ie. About six 'hours afterward be to"k tlelirous and continued con-tinued in tills condition three days. On recovering his senses, however, he grew better, got. up, and wrote up his journal, lie also attendul to his oilier duties as if lie had been in hij usual health, but he never went out. fn about ten days altcrwanl, he was again fcic.i-d and got wor-e and worse, until the night of the 7th, when he became calm. Seeing 'Dr. Vessels near he called and said: "1 am very much obliged (o yo'.i fur the kindness j-oi.i have shown to me, Doctor.'' A Iter uttering these words he relapsed and inlhe imrning he w-is dj.el. Captain Haddington s;iys: On (be 2lth Captain Hall returned, having reached a bay which b" called Newman's New-man's Day. Not long after bis return Ciiptain Hall was taken seriously ill. and Dr. Bes-Hs said his disease was apoplexy. I or two weeks he continued contin-ued in bad health, but now and again he would rally and appear well and then relapse suddenly. On the morning mor-ning of the 8th he died, and on the morning of thelOlh'we buried hi m,haf a mile to the south of the observatory. observat-ory. We were now in, a pecuiiary cinbarrasing condition, but considered it still our duty to push toward the North Pole. In consequence of some little diffcrn. i- which ii: u cccurr.il before Captain Hall's death, as well as from the novel position in which we we now found ourselves, the harmony har-mony which had previously prevailed was now more than once seriously broken. On the oOth of November, Dr. Bessels drew up a paper and linked link-ed me to sign it, which 1 did. It was a repititiou of the instructions given by the Naval Department to Captain llall, providing that I should continue con-tinue as the sailing and ice master to control and direct the movements of the vessel. Dr. Bessels lo continue chief of the scientific department. The paper concluded as follows: ''It is our honest intention to honor our flag and to hoist it upon the most northern p. -int of the Earth." Duddinglon described tbeseperatinn from the Tyson party, and says; " We kept an anxious lookout all the time from the masthead of our vessels for signs of the partv, but the sharpest eyes on shipboard" failed to see aught of them. As, however, they had the boats even to the little scow, we were in hopes that they would possibly be able yet to make for us. " |