The Greely Horror by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 21, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 32.

The Greely Horror.

By Editor

THIS is the popular term for the story of the disastrous expedition of the Greely party in the arctic regions. Only for one thing we should deeply regret the course of the newspapers parading before their readers the horrible details of the action of men crazed by starvation. We hope that it may be the means of arousing public feeling against the insane folly of fitting out expeditions to make discoveries which must of necessity entail untold sufferings on the explorers, and be of practical advantage to nobody. We hope this may prove to be the last of “polar expeditions.”