DELONEY (or DELONE), THOMAS ?-1607 ?), Eng lish ballad-writer and pamphleteer. In 1588 the coming of the Armada inspired him to write three broadsides, which were re printed (186o) by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. A collection of Strange Histories (1607), known in later and enlarged editions as The Royal Garland of Love and Delight and The Garland of Delight, consists of historical ballads by Deloney, with some poems from other hands.
DE LONG, GEORGE WASHINGTON American explorer, was born in New York city on Aug. 22, 1844. He graduated at the U.S. Naval academy in 1865, entered the U.S. navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant in 1869, and lieutenant commander in 1879. In 1873 he took part in the voyage of the "Juniata," sent to search for and relieve the American Arctic expedition in the "Polaris," which was sent out from Upernavik, Greenland. In 1879 he again set out for the Arctic in the "Jean! nette." The "Jeannette" was caught in the polar ice-pack Sept. 5, 1879, and drifted helplessly until June 13, 1881, when she was finally crushed and sunk. About 14 members of the expedition survived. De Long succeeded in reaching the mouth of the Lena river in one of the boats, only to die of starvation. His jour nal, in which he made regular entries until the day of his death, was edited by his wife and published in 1883 under the title of Voyage of the "Jeannette." Three years after the ship was sunk several articles belonging to the crew of the "Jeannette" were found on an ice-floe on the south-west coast of Greenland, a fact that added fresh evidence to the theory of a continuous ocean current passing along the unknown Polar regions.