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Show THE BUDD1NCTOM EXAM IN A- 1 TIOM. i New York, 12. A Washington dispatch says the examination of Captain Buddington during the last five hours, relateel particularly to his relations with Captain Hall, he de-. daring that there was not the slightest slight-est foundation for any report of a eli(-ferenee eli(-ferenee between him and Hall. His judgment about proceeding beyond the point reached, eighty-two degrees, sixteen minutes, was based entirely upon his experience as a navigator n Arctic waters, and not from tiie fear of thinner or aversion to prosecute the journey. While there might have bee-n an appearance of an open channel, chan-nel, the weather in the northern latitude lati-tude was so uncertain that no man dare risk the vessel in a higher latitude lati-tude with the Arctic winter approaching. approach-ing. Buddington said he had been accustomed to taking a dram occasionally, occa-sionally, but denied ever having drank enough to incapacitate him for duty, or make him unfit for the position po-sition of navigator in dangerous waters. wat-ers. The separation of Tyson and party was more seriously regretted by those on the I'ularis than could possibly pos-sibly have been by the ice-floe party. So certain was he that the vessel would have to be abandoned, that he hael maele preparations to cast over everything of value anel importance to the cre'W, when the winel (suddenly (sudden-ly changed, and shifted : lie J'ohirfx into an almost opposite jjositiem, snapping the hawsers, and increasing the duncer to the vessel, The details of what happened after the separation separa-tion have already been substantially narr.i'i-d. The examination will he resie;;:d on Monelay, when the de-ath of Ihdl will be cn.juireel into at lemj;!. |
