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THIS has been a stirring Arctic week. First we have the publication of one of the most remarkable narratives of one of the most successful Arctic voyages ever made, to which we refer in detail on another page. On Tuesday an influential deputation waited on the Earl of Northbrook, to urge upon Government the necessity of sending out an expedition to succour Mr. Leigh Smith in the Eira. And, also, on the same day, the wires which about two years ago transmitted the welcome news of the safety of Nordenskjöld's expedition in the Vega, and the successful navigation of the North-east Passage, bore to Europe the sad news of disaster to the Jeannette. Sad though the news be, it is not nearly so bad as was to be feared, for we doubt if many besides Mr. Gordon Bennett had any faith in the survival of the expedition, and the search parties that were to be sent out next spring were generally looked on as forlorn hopes. From the news which has been transmitted from Yakutsk to St. Petersburg, and thence to London and Paris, it is not quite easy to make out the details. The following extract is from the telegram of the St. Petersburg New York Herald correspondent to the Paris office of that paper; he quotes from a telegram to General Ignatieff, dated Irkutsk, December 19:—
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Arctic Success and Disaster . Nature 25, 169 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025169a0
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