The Portland daily press., 1873-05-12

ice was broken, and we were drifting south
ward very fast.
we saw no more land for many days. Bad
WWeather continuing all through the month of
november, we built snow houses and made our
serves as comfortable as we could. we Were
zen Wnte men, two Esquimaux, TWO Mu WIZ;
ana i've children in all. We succeeaeu III nnS
| q few seals, which furnished us Win iignt anu
fuel with which to warm our scaa'y Al rnt;c
| OF food through the darkhe'' VI viz
winter. ,r mn 1,,od ,,r;r-
o;ran1- T mon birds, and in March commenced to
catch seals. Through that month we support
% Ourselves on bears and sears fish, wasting
Gu ETHER skin ncr entrails. We collected
| anounh food in this way to last us until the
middle of May had we not been driven to sea
by strong Westerly gale In the latter part of
March, our foe piece being then reduced from
five miles in circumference to about twenty
yards in diameter
We left the piece on the 1st April, and aban-
doned nearly all our meat, large amount of
ammunition, clothing, skins and other articles
taking portion OF the meat in boat which
we were obliged to throw overheard on account
OF the boats being SO deeply laden. reeained
the outer edge of the pack of ice on the 3D. of
April, and succeeded in getting little further
In the pack On the 4th heavy northeast gale
seq In, aheavy sea running under, which 5foke
IL IN small pieces, SO that we had to live on
small pans, as we could not put the poat ont.
neither could we find seals for food
on the list of April we sighted polar bear
Every person was ordered to lie down and imi-
tate the seal, while the two Esquimaux secreted
themselves behind piece of ice, enticing the
bearnear enough to us tolhimhim. A few days af
ter this we got our boat in the water, and work
ed our way west and southwest and continued
to work every opportunity to the westward, in
the hopes of reaching Labrador coast and get
ting temporary relief.
We were picked up by the steamship Ii
rraa 1aff @6o e
| in latitude 53-35 north, longitude $50 west, or
near Wolf Island, and about forty miles from
| land.
| The Polaris is now without boats, having lost
two in trying to get north in the spring of 1872
| The Tigress fell in with the party in dense
fog, and providentially struck the very foe on
| which they were, otherwise they mus have
| persisted
They all seem tolerably well. Captain Ty-
son complained of swelled legs and feet, but
nothing serious is the matter with him. When
| they left the Polaris all on board were in good
| health.
In reference to the way in which the Polaris
! got away from the party which was rescued
from off the iceberg, Captain Tyson stated that
he felt little anxious at first, thinking she
would soon come to their relief. 1t set my col
ors as she steamed down along the Shore but
the vessel was soon lost to sight in the bend of
land, and behind what took to be Northum-
berland Island.
The piece of ice was ON commenced drifting
southwark as the wind hauled to the northeast
opening little bay to the northeast of North
cumberland Island. saw the vessel in the har-
Dor there; her sails were furled and no smoke
was issuing from her smokestack that could
see. then attempted to bring my boats across
the foe in an easterly direction, hoping to find
water and reach the shore. 1 succeeded in
dragging one boat across, took the water and
attempted to reach the shore some distance be-
low the vessel
We were then drifting very fast, and the
gale was blowing fresh, with great violence.
from the northeast and showing very fast and
drifting. I was driven back on the ice again
and compelled to haul my boat out. In the
morning we were about thirty miles southwest
of where the ship went in the harbor. A heavy
sea was running which broke my foe-piece,
separating us from six bags of bread and one
boat. / saw vessel under steam and canvas ,
rounding point to the northwest. Thinking
she would come to our relief, gave myself no
extra anxiety. but soon we were doomed to dis
appointment, and from that time until the Tt
gress rescued us we never got a glimpse of the
Polaris.