The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1873-05-15

hohy eSuio 40 lVoStotV, ootu w
food, light aud fuel, but conlc
only got three, owing to bat
weather having set 10. l supposed
the wind to be south west; on it,
clearing up l found myself With,
about eight miles Of what | suppos
ed to DO the east coast and abou
20 or 40 miles below the ship
The leo being weak, | could moi
transport the boat and provisions
to land until it grew stronger
While here discovered my Other
boat, bread, etc, and saved all. The
ice grew firm, and we made
another attempt to get to the shore
carrying everything in the boats
and dragging them OF their kecls
The ice being recently rough, We
stove in the boats. We succeeded
on tho LIST of November. in get
ting about half way to the shore
but night came OH very stormy
and in the morning the ice was
broken and We were drifting south
ward very fast. We saw nc
more land for many days, the bad
weather continuing all through the
month of November. We buill
snow houses, aud made ourselves
as comfortable as we could. There
werc ten whites, two EsQuimaux,
two women and five children in
all. We succeeded in killing
a few seals which furnished
us with light and fuel with winch
to warm ourselves. Owing to our
scanty allowance of food through,
darkness of the Arctic winter, we
lived during the greater part ot
February, principally npon birds,
and in March we commenced TO
catch seals. Through that mouth
we supported ourselves on bears
and seals's flesh, wasting neither
skin nor cntrails. We collected
enough food in this way to last
nntil the middle of May, Had we
not been driven to sea by a strong
westerly gale in the latter part OF
March, (onr piece Of ice being
then reduced from So miles in
circumference to about six yards
in diameter), we would have
left it on the LIST of Apul and
abandoned nearly all our pro-
visions and an amount of
ammunition, clothing, skins, and
other articles, taking only a
portion of the meat in the boat. |
remained Oh the onter edge Of the
pack Of ice till the Ord of April,
and succeeded in getting little
farther in OF pack. On the 4th,
a heavy northeast gale set in,
and a heavy sea a running under
the ice, broke 1t into small pieces,
so we hud to live on them or perish,
As we could not put a boat ont,
and could find no seals for food,
we were reduced almost to star
walton. Ga the 2lst of April we
sighted a polar bear, and a person
was ordered to lie down and i'm
ita'c the seal, while two others
secreted themselves behind a piece
vf ice, and thus We succeeded in
en'icing the bear near enough to
kill him. A few days after this
we got our boat in the water aud
worked our way west and south
west, and continued to work to
tho westward at every opportun-
ity, in hopes Of reaching the
Labrador coast and getting
temporary relief. We were
picked up Ivy the steamship II
gress, Captain Bartlett, on the
Both of April in latitude 1895
north, longitude IS west, or near
Wolf Island, and abont forty miles
from land. The Polaris il now
without boats, having lost two in
trying to get north. In the spring
of 1872 the Tigress fell in with
the party in the dense fog,
and providcntially struck the very
foe on which they were, other
wise they must have persisted.
They all seem tolerably well except
Captain Tyson, who complained
Of swollen legs and feet, but
serious is the matter with
him. When they left the Pol
arts, 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 tho ice,
Captain Tyson states that he felt
q little anxiety at first thinking
that she would come to their re-
lief. 81 set my colors," he said,
''ns she steamed along the shore,
but the vessel was soon lost to
sight in a bond OF land, aud be-
hind what l took to be North
cumberland Island. A piece Of
ice had commenced to drift south.
ward as the wind hauled to the
northeast, opening a little bay
of Northumberland Is
land. 1 saw a vessel in the
harbor thcrc;her sails were furled,
and no smoke was issuing from
the smoke. stack that VIC could
SEQ. l then attempted to bring my
boat across the fiat in an easterly
direction, hoping to find water
and reach the shore. cue.
cceded in dragging one OF the
boats across, and took water at.
tempted to reach the shore below
the vessel. We.werc then drifting
very fast, a gale:was blowing with
great violence from the northwest,
and it was showing very fast and
| twas driven back on