The survivors of the Greely expedition,—only six in number, —have
been rescued near Cape Sabine, at the mouth of Smith Sound. The expedition numbered originally twenty-five per- sons, and of these nineteen have perished,—eighteen before the help reached them, and one since. Commander Schley, the head -of the Greely Relief Expedition, discovered the survivors on June 22nd. They had long exhausted their food, and had been living after the most miserable fashion on strips of sealskin, lichens, and occasionally shrimps, which they caught when they were strong enough to make expeditions. It is said that another forty-eight hours' delay in finding them would have extinguished the life of all. Surely these useless Arctic expeditions might now be abandoned, till some fresh discovery makes them either safer, or more likely to prove beneficial to mankind. Lieutenant Greely's party had reached a higher latitude than had ever been reached before-83° 24'—but even the attainment of that latitude is no advantage to mankind.
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