Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-12-10
Interesting Narrative.


coveries in the Attic Seas, will be read will
interest They describe the meeting o
Lieut.. PIN with the party from the lnvesti
gator, at time when neither party dreamed
of other white men being within hundreds
of miles of the spot:
april 18th, 1853. This is really rec
letter day in our voyage, and shall be KEEP,
As holiday by our heirs and successors for
ever. At nine o'clock this day our look out
man made the signal fer party coming If
from the westward; all went out TO meet
them and assist them in. A second party
was then seen. Dr. Domvile was the firsl
person met. | cannot describe my feel
inrs when he told me that Captain Mcclure
was among the next party. was not Ions
in reaching him, and giving him many
hearty shakes-no purer were ever given
by two men in this world. Mcclure looks
well, bat is very hungry. His description
of Pins making the Harbor of Mercy
would have been fine subject for the pen
OF Captain Maryati were he alive.
"MClure and his first lieutenant were
walking on the foe. Seeing person coming
very fast towards them, they supposed he
was chased by bear Walking towards
him, on getting EDWARDS a hundred yards
they could see from his proportions that he
was not one Of them. PIN began to screech
and throw up his hat This face was as black
as my hiatt: this brought the Captain and
Lieutenant to stand as they could not
hear sufficiently to make out his language.
At length PIN reached the party, quite be
side himself. and stammered out on NJ CIure'e
asking him, "Who are Won and where do
r
tain Kellet." This was the more inexpIica
bic to Mcclure as | was the last person he
shook han Is with in Behring'S Straits. He
at last found that this solitary stranger was
a true Englishman-an angel of light. He
says, He soon was seen from the ship; had
only one hatchway open, and the crew were
up. The sick jumped out of their ham
mocks and the crew forgot their desponden-
cy; in fact all was changed on board the
Investigator
CAPTAIN Mcclure in a letter to his uncle,
says:
The surprise caused by the appearance
Of strangers, where none were imagined to
be within couple of thousand miles, was
more than can describe and what can only
family be imagined by any who have not
been similarly situated, particularly when
it was ascertained that two vessels and sup
plies were so close at hand.
The spirits of my crew seemed to revive,
and from dependency to JOY was but the
work Of moment-the sick forgot their
maladies, and, jumping from their ham,
mocks, were carried in the stream of human
creatures up the only solitary ha.chway
which the severity of the weather allowed
Of being kept open, rushed on deck to be
assured that the strange apparition were ac-
tuaily living flesh and blood, and not deni-
Eens of the other world-for certainly their
faces were black as Efebus, from cooking
in their tents When all was discovered to
be real and not dream, my poor fellows
equally with myself could not find words to
express our thoughts the heart was too full,
ii was call from the grave.
Never, TRUST, may the feelings of graft
tude to the. Almighty Disposer of events,
which then sweiled in my bosom, pass away.
Many and great have been the mercies We
have experienced in our long, tedious and
terrible navigation of that ferful Polar sea,
which has for four hundred years baffled the
navies of maritime Europe, and through
which the directing finger alone of Provi-
dence has safely guided US. All human
agency was powerIess indeed. to advance
Us one yard in lis accomplishment, amidst
the stupendous barrie Of ice which never
leave its frozen surface
aYou will, am certain, be happy to learn
that the Northwest Passage has been dis
covered by the Investigator, which event
was decided ON the 26th October. 1850, by
sledge party over the ice. from the position
the ship was frozen in-but as in all proba-
bility my dispatch will be published, ] do
not think it necessary to trouble you with
further details; sufficient 10 say, we have
been most highly favored, both as regards
the health Of all, having only lost one man,
who accidently poisoned himself about
fortnight since, as we'll as in being able to
extend orr search in quest of Sir John
franklin over a very large extent of coast,
which was not hitherto known, and found
inhabited by a numerous tribe of Esqui-
maux, who had never ere our arrival seen
the face Of the white man. and were really
the most simple, interesting people ever
met living entirely by the chase, and hav-
ing no weapons except those used for that
object. The fercer passions Of our nature
appeared unknown-they gave me pleas
ing idea OF man fresh from his Makers hand.
uncontamina,edb by intercourse with ourboast-
ed civilization. All those who traded with
the - Company, We found the greatest
Teprobates. +gI
h A WANDERING CHILD-A young girl Of
about ten years came 10 this city few days
ago on the Cincinnati cars, connected with
whom were some rather singular circum-
stances. She stopped at one Of the largest
hotels. and her forIorn and unhappy appear
ance Immediately excited the sympathy Of
those who saw her They questioned her,
aud found that she was travelling alone;
that she had come unaccompanied. and I'M
cared for save by strangers: from al far dis
iant southern city, and that she was destined
soa town far from this place. She was poor
y dressed but had money. She seemed to
ave been ilI-treated Il her former home,
Naich she hid deserted now. aud desired to |
Msch her destination because size believed |
shs had relatives living there. Her face |
Sas pale and sad, and some great grief /
SEEMED 70 be troubling her heart. She was |
Indy assisted on her way BY those whose
sympathy her appearance and her story had I
excited hnt the fIffIA fhinu scarcolx. tro,,, I