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SUCCESS has at last attended the efforts to rescue the expedition to Lady Franklin Bay under Lieut. Grecly; but, alas, out of the twenty-five men who started three years ago nineteen have perished. The party had left their station, Fort Conger, in August last, but did not succeed in getting further south than Cape Sabine, in Ellesmere Land, at the entrance to Smith Sound, about 150 miles from Lady Franklin Bay, and some 300 or 400 miles from Upernivik, the nearest Danish station. It is easy now to say that it would have been much better for the expedition to have stayed on in their comparatively comfortable quarters at Discovery Bay; the chances are that they would all have survived, and probably all have been rescued this summer by the relief party in the Bear and the Thetis,
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The Greely Expedition . Nature 30, 290–291 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030290c0
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