From the Arctic. Return of the Revenue Cutter Thomas Corwin. No Tidings of the Jeannette-Fruitless Effort to Revisit Wrangel Land.
Files
Kimes Entry Number
A5-a
Original Date
10-21-1881
Publication
San Francisco Evening Call Bulletin
Page/Column
p. 3, col. 7. [Scrapbook I, p. 40.]
Location
C
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "From the Arctic. Return of the Revenue Cutter Thomas Corwin. No Tidings of the Jeannette-Fruitless Effort to Revisit Wrangel Land." (1881). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 659.
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William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
Captain Hooper is delighted with the success of the cruise. . . . John Muir, the Bulletin's special correspondent, is laden with ice lore and is fortified on all sides with the most conclusive, curious and interesting data relative to the glacial erosion of the far north. Behring Strait and the basin beyond is described by him as nothing more than the result of the erosion of the great ice sheet which at one time covered the Arctic circle and thrust its nose into the North Pacific Ocean."" Details of the search for the Jeannette are given, as well as the narrow escape of the Rodgers. Concerning the rumors of the ship-wrecked whites assumed to be from the Jeannette, the reporter writes: ""Mr. Muir characterizes the Point Barrow Indians, and in fact all the Indians along the North American coast, consummate liars. They know every vessel that enters the Arctic seas, and fabricate all kinds of yarns to suit the occasion. . . . The Siberian Indians are represented to be a much superior race to those on the American shores, having had less intercourse with white traders and whalers.""