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Show (By W. U. Telegraph.) CAPTAIN 11 ALL'S BXFJEDITION. Dr. Hayes, tho arctic explorer, in an interview relative to the failure of Hall's expedition, expresses bis opinion opin-ion that tho Polaris was unfit for the service, and that the injury to tho vessel ves-sel was caused by defcots in her building. build-ing. Captain Hall, said the doctor, was 264 milcB from the north pole, and he has proven what I have predicted long ago, that Smith Sound was navigable navi-gable and was the true passage into the open polar sea, which he seems to havo reached. Why ho was driven back I can't tell; probably by tho drifting drift-ing ice fields, or gales of wind; but I have no doubt he had rear hod the Polar Po-lar sea. There is one remarkable faot about his explorations; ho had constant sunshine all the time, and the Burviv-ors Burviv-ors who wore drifting down in South waters were all the time without a ray of sunshine. 1 can't understand why tho ship, when it was so near Northumberland Nor-thumberland island, would draw up before the ice and exchange its cargo on it; I think tlore vas Borne discussion on board, lt looks to me as though this party bad been determined to leave tho ship; there is a mystciy about this part of the report I oannot fathom. I think Hall has done a glorious glo-rious thing. Ho has gono further north with his ship than any human , being ever did bel'oro him, altnough others have gone as far in sledges. Hall seems to have broken the icebergs of Smith Sound, whioh baffled both of the previous expeditions, and succeeded succeed-ed in reaching the point where both Kane and I claimed to have seen the open polar sea, in latitude 62.16, the most northerly latitudo ever reached by any ship. His ship was 219 miles further north than Kane's ship, I cannot understand why the survivors were left to the mercies of the floe unless un-less there was a difficulty on board the ship. At tho outset there was some difficulty between Hall and Euiding-ton, Euiding-ton, but this was settled by the oip-tain oip-tain of the Congress. There was i something very myBtcrious in Hall's death.. I wouldn't like to say that he was killed by one of his own men in a mutiny, but it would almost look so, I have never known of any one dying ' in that region of apoplexy, and captain cap-tain Hall certainly did not look like an ! apoplectio man. I think there is a strong probability that the 1 people ou board the Polaris are i safe, and that tho vessel will be back here by September. The men who deserted the ship, probably did so beceauso of Hall's death. Ho was a bravo, resolute man, and started with a determination to reach the north pole if it would take him five years to do it. He was one of the pluckiest men I ever saw; and would certainly havo stayed two years more to accomplish his purpose if death bad spared him; death or murder 1 don't know which. |
