Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-05-21

bread, &C, ana saved aii'
WINTER ON THE ICE.
The ice grew firm, ADD Imade another
attampt to reach the shore, carrying every
thing in the boats aud dragging them OF
their keels. The ice being exceed ingly
rough, we stove both boats. We succeed.
ed on the LIST of Noveuber in getting
about half way to shore, Night came on
us and very stormy weather. In the
morning the ice was broken, and We were
drifting southwark very fast. We saw no
more land for many days, bad weather
continued all through the month Of Now
omler. We built snow houses and made
ourselves as comfortable as VIC could. We
were ten white men, two Esquimaux, two
woman, and FIVE children in all. We sue
coed in killing few seals, which furnish
us with light and fuel with which to
warm our scanty allowance of food through
the darkness Of the arctic winter. In the
latter part of February We
LIVED PRINCIPALLY UPON BIRDS,
and in March We began 10 catch seals.
Through that month We supported our
selves on bears and seals flesh, wasting
neither skin nor sntrails. We collected
enough food In this way to last us until
the middle Of May, had We lot been
driven to sea by a 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 LIST
Of April, and abandond nearly all our
meat, largo amount of ammunition,
portion of the meat in the boat, which VIC
we're obliged to throw overheard on &C.
count of the boats being so deeply laden.
[ regained the outer edge of the pack of
ice Cd Sd of April, and succeeded in get
ting little further in on the pack. On the
4th heavy northeast gale set in, a heavy
sea running under the ice, which broke it
in small peices, SO that we had to live on
small pans, as We could not put the boat
out, neither could we find seals for food.
and We were reduced almost to starvation.
On the Dist of April We sighted polar
bear. Every person WINS ordered to lie
down and initiate the seal, while the two
esquimaux so creted themselves behind
piece Office, enticing the bear near enough
TO US TO kill him.
RESCUED BY THE TIGREss
A few days after this we got our boat
in the water and worked our way west
and southwest, and continued to work ev.
cry opportunity TO the westward in hopes
OF reaching the Labrador coast aud get
ting temporary relief. We were picked
up by the steamship Tigress, Capt. Bart.
lett, on the Both of April. in latitude So 9
30 longitude 55 Q 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 previdontially struck the
very Toe on which they we're, otherwise
they must have persisted. They all seem
toierably well. Capt. Tyson complained
OF swelled legs and feet, but nothing seri-
Gus is the matter with him. When they
left the Polaris all on board were in good
health.
HOW THE PoLARIs LEFT THEM,
In reference to the Polaris leaving them
Capt. Tyson says:
felt but little anxiety at first, think
Ing she would coon come TO our relief. (
set my colors as she steamed down along
the shore, but the vessel was soon lost to
sight in the bend of the land, and behind
what | took to DO Northumberland Island
The piece of ice | was on commenced
drifting seushwaid as the wind hauled to
the northeast, opening little bay to the
northeast of Northumberland Island. /
saw the vessel in the harbor there her
sails we're furled. no smoke was issuing
from her smokestack that could see. l
then attempted to bring my boats across
the foe in an easterly direction. hoping to
find wafer aud reach the shore. | sue
ceedel in dragging one boat across, took
the water aud attempted to reach the
shore some distance below the vesse'.
We were then drifting very fast. and the
gale Was blowing fresh, with great vio-
encc, from the northeast and showing