Photo #: NH 92144
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Facsimile of the next-to-last page of Lieutenant Commander George
DeLong's journal, covering 21-24 October 1881, as his party was
dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia.
Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was
abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 798, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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