Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-10-12

eb i7fH ~ lee la srid 3JElli-s il
and engaged in sealing. 4, This occurred near
Feitohille (Bothia Felix Peninsula,) Crozier
was nothing but ''skin and bones"--was near
ly starved to death, while the three men with
him were fat The cousin soon learned that
the three fat men had been living on human
Hesh-on the flesh Of their companions, who
all deserted the two ships that were fast in
mountains OF ice, while Crozier was the only
man that would not eat human flesh, and for
this reason he was almost dead from starva-
tion This cousin (who has two names, but
cannot stop to give them now took Crozer
and the three men at once in charge. He soon
caught seal, and gave Crozier quickly lit
tlc--a very little piece which was nearly raw
only one mouthful the FIRST day. The cous-
in did not give the three fat men anything,
for they could we'll get along, till Croziers
life was safe. The next day the cousin gave
Crozier a little larger piece Of the same SEAL
BY the judicious care of this cousin for Gro
zier his life nwas saved. Indeed, Crozer's
own judgment stuck to him in this terrible
situation, for he agreed with his cousin that
one little bit was all he should have the first
day. When the cousin first saw Crozer's
IUOhtu bO uuu---lilS Eyes I'LL builh Ill,
the face so skeleton-like and haggard--that
he (the acousin) did not dare to look upon
Crozier's face forseyeral days after; it made
him (the cousn) feelso bad This noble cous-
in, whom the whole civilized world will ever
remember for his humanity, took care Of Gro
zier and his three men, save one, who died,
during the whole winter. One man, howev-
er died short time after the cousin found
them not because he starved, but because he
was sick. In the spring, Crozer and the re-
naming two men accompanied this cousin on
the Boothia Felix Peninsula to Neitchille,
where there many Inuits Crozier and each
of the men had guns and plenty of amunl-
ton, and many pretty things They killed a
great many ducks, nowyers, &C., with their
guns Here they lived with the Innuits at
Neitchille, and Crozier became fat and of good
health Crozier told this cousin that he was
once at Innoil.le (Rcpulse Bay,) at Winter
Island and lngoolik many years before, and
that at the two last named places he saw ma
ny Innuts, and got acquainted with them
This cousin had heard of Parry, Lyon and
Crozier of his Innuit friends at Repulse Bay
some years previous, and therefore when Gro
zier gave him his name he rccollected it
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found him and the three men, where the two
ships were in theice. 1t was there that the
cousin found out that Crozicr had been to In
goolk aa, ..y. ...u.
Crozier and the two men lived with the
Neitchille Innuits some time The lnnuits
liked him Crozier very much, and treated
him always very kindly, At length Crozier,
with his two men and one lnnuit, who took
along kiak (?) an India rubber boat, as
L .bier-bing thinks it was, for all along the
ribs there was something that could be filled
with air. left Neitchille to try to go to the
Koblu-nas country, taking a south course,
I When Ousc-la (AlberD and his brothers, in
!. 1854, saw this cousin that had been so good
to Crozier and his men at Pclly Bay, (Which
is not far from Meitchille;) the cousin had not
heard whether Crozer and the two men and
Neitchille Innuit had ever come back or not
The Innuits never think they are dcad-do
not believe they are. Crozier offered to give
his gun to the cousin for saving his life, but
the cousin would not accept it, for he was
afraid it would kill him, (the cousin) it made
such great noise, and killed everything with
nothing. Then Crozier gave him (the corsin)
"a long curious knife, (sword as E-bier-bing
and Too.kee-li-too say it is) and gave him ma.
ny pretty things besides (The dogs are. all
in harness, and sledges loaded, and Innuits
wa ting for my letters, promise to be ready
1 in thirty mnntes) Crozier told the cousin
of a fight with a band of lndians-not Innu-
its but Indians. This must have occurred
near the entrance of Great Fish or Back S
river. More of this when | see you. y
God bless you, End q. F.-HALI4
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