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Show IIEKOES OF THE 'P0LAItIS." When tho liciwa of the Po- laris expedition were honored with a public reception recently by Ihc American Geographical Socictyfiii tho Cooper Institute, jN'ew York, Captain Buddinpilon, and Tyson and all but two of the survivors of the Polaris including Esquimaux Joe, Hannah and their child, were present and were the honored guests of this iiis-tinguished iiis-tinguished society. The speech as of the evening were intensely interesting. interest-ing. Our leaders will readily recall to memory that Captain Haddington commanded the Polaris and was with the ill-fated vessel when Captain Cap-tain Tyson and nineteen others were separated from the vessel on a floe of ice and they never met again till they met on the Atlantic seaboard. From Judge Daly's address wo take a few lines: Whon you think of it, ladies nnd puii-tlorjien, puii-tlorjien, that nineteen persons in all, men, women rind children, lloatct upon a c-iko of ieo in d.irkuc;, from tlio ;th of Oct-tober Oct-tober until 1st of Alay 1!4 day; months and a half at oao time mlucod to a biscuit apeico and a small portion of pemmiean; saved from the most horrible of deaths, famine, by the accidental capture cap-ture of ii tuar, whon you think of thein thus floalinjf from tho SOlb to tho i'M degree of north latitude, why, thcra is nothing like it in tho whole bialor3"of maratime disaster. (Applause.) How sweet is lifo ! What will not our race do in the hope of preserving preserv-ing it? What a long night of darkness! dark-ness! Tho venerable Henry Grinncl who fitted out the first American expedition ex-pedition to the Polar regions, in search of Sir John Franklin, was present and authorized the statement that he was'ready again to send the same "boat Hag" that was earned on" the fourth Antartic expedition by Wilkes and then by Kane, Hayes and Hall, whenever an American expedition expedi-tion was prepared to again sail for the discovery of the North Tole ! As the little bunting was floated he-ore he-ore the assembly, it was greeted with enthusiastic applause. The speeches of the survivors were brief and mcdest as might be expected from men who live in deeds; and even "Joe" bom and reared in the coldest regions of our world, plead that he could not speak, as in our comparatively sunny clime ,:hein' I catch cold." To this unsophisticated Eiuimaux, Cruzcr, one of the absent survivors of the expedition ex-pedition writing to Judge Daly attributes at-tributes the safety of the nineteen rescued from the ice. Of him he says: "I wish you would thank Joe for our safety, for without him we would never have seen the United States." |