Show DeLoDZ Report Washington 29 DeLongs report found beside his dead Body has been made public It makes 30000 words details the incidents of the cruise from the departure from San Francisco in L879 to January 81 Ita principal feature is an elaborate account of DeLongVa views In regard to the expedition Ho I eoaaidered it good judgment to head for VVrangell Land His idea wo to adopt that land as a support for the first winters win-ters campaign He embodies the etory ot how tin Innd was sighted and how he expected to reich itj graphically describes de-scribes how on the next day the Jeannette Jean-nette became beset in ice never again tot I be to-t relieved and says the party wore compelled to make a virtue necessity and stay where we wera sometimes all night and sometimes day and night from January 19th to February 4th Sweet man and Ninderman stoi d down in the forepsak icy water flowing around them nearly to their knees workin faithfully until their work was accomplished and he good results of that work were evi dent in the gradually reduced amount of water coming into the ship ana our abil ity to control tho leak without such a ruinous exp enditure oi fuel eus had baen necessary theretofore for these reason I have had the honor to reccjameud there two men to you for medals ot honor asa as-a recognition of heroic conduct under the moat trying circumstances captain DeLong record of the remainder re-mainder of the winter and summer of 1880 is for the most part amouotonocs record of Bloomsice movements and constant con-stant anxiety and almost unbroken disappointment dis-appointment As the short Arctic summer sum-mer drew to a close without netting the Jeannette free and another dreary winter win-ter approached Captain DoLong evidently evi-dently began to revolve in his mind the question whather it Would not be letter to abandon the ship and make for I the northern coast Siberia over the > w thau run the risk of a second winter In I the paok under dnto of September 20o r I 1880 he says 1 dUlike naturally tot dwell on tho idea of the abandonment of the chip We have crime through to I much it gives no hops of surviving more as long as enough of the ship remains re-mains to ehelkr u sticking by that fragment frag-ment is preferable to camping on ios and lean oouceivo of no greater forlorn hope than the attempt to reach Siberia lay 240miles distant over ice tart cur fund us and with the winters cold sapping ones lifo at every step Of course if we were to lose our ship wo would make an tffjrt to Ret there but our chances of suecrss will be extremely problematical The last I entry in the record is dated December Slit 1880 as follow Minstrel are ringing in the New Year in latitude 78 degees 48 minutes min-utes north longitude df racsSi min btej east During the pet sixteen months we dnftai 1 500 miles far enough if it byd been in a straight line to cury us to nod beyond the pain but we we only 220 miles northwest where w first beset We have suffered injury and danger has eften confronted uo We have been squeezed and jammed tossed and tumbles We pumped the leaking ship for a year but am not yet dauU4 and are as ready to dare anything us ever and we face Now Yoar firmly hop lag to do something worthy of ourselvee of Bennetii enterprise and of the flag above us IB lea than ten months after these words were written the Jeannette Jean-nette w < t8 nt lha b ttom othe Arctic Ocean and DeL5ng lay I dead in LAM |