The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-06-12


was inevitable. It was at this crisis
that, on the 21st Of April, fortune sent
the Polar bear, which they happily OBJ
tanned possession of as above described.
/ The boat was afterward got into the
water, and they worked their way west
and southwest every day in the hope of
reaching some part of the Labrador
coast. The only then remaining shelter
was canvass tent, erected after the
annihilation of the winter camp. On
the 22d of April the boat happened. to
become separated from this tent some
soyen or eight feet. The weather,
which had been fine for some days pre-
viously, with hardly any wind, sudden
ly shifted, and
TERRIFIC STORM.
Accompanied with sleet and snow,
sprang up. More suddenly still, and
without any warning scenes whatever.
the ice between the boat and tent burst
asunder with loud and deafening ex-
plosion. A cry was at once raised to
&C stand by the boat" Fred Myer, in
the darkness (for it was night managed
to reach it, though in attempting to do
so he narrowly escaped being swept
into the chasm caused by the separation
of the ice foe, and in which the mad
dened sea was seething and the shatter-
ed and scattered fragments of the ice
were tossing wildly against each other.
Having reached the boat in safety his
first act was to look round for his COM
panions. None We're to be seen and no
thing heard, save the roaring Of the
tempest and the grinding and crunching
of the clumpers as they were driven
with terrific violence by the sea. To
remain where he was would be, he
knew, to court immediate destruction.
The pan upon which he tottered was be-
coming smaller and smaller every mo
ment, and, great as was the hazard, he
determined, if possible, to launch the
boat again, and, though desperate the
attempt, to cross the chasm that divid-
ed him from his companions. But this
was no easy task. The sea was break
ing wildly over the pan. The boat was
heavily laden, and it seemed as if his
remaining strength, though doubled by
that desperate situation, was unequal
to the required task. Several times
did he make the attempt, and twice
was he
WASHED FROM THE PAN INTO THE SEA
By the violence of the waves that dash
ed over and overwhelmed it. The cold
was intense, terribly augmented by the
chilling and freezing water with which
he was covered and saturated In this
awful situation but little hope rem aimed
of his ever again beholding his COM
rades or even preserving his own life.
FIGHT FOR LIFE.
In moment, as if by magic, the
storm lulled and the surge subsided,
and, straining his eyes through the
blackness of that Plutonian night in
the direction of which he supposed the
rest of the party were, he discovered
the two Esquimaux, Joe and Hans, each
standing on small piece of ice, and
adding toward him. These intrepid
and hardy sons of the g regions of thi ok
ribbed ice were not deferred by dan
gers which would have balanced the
cheek and made the hearts of men bold
enough to seek the bauble reputation
even at the cannon's mouth, stand pet
rifed with awe. But for them the ice
/ seemed to have no terrors rs for common
men. In a second the horrors of the
preceding moment were forgotten. Hope
once more bloomed in all its fullness,
regardless of the innumerable periIs
| beyond, and, strength thus revived with
eager hope, the boat was launched and
they ioyfully reioineI their compan-
IONS
HELP AT LAST.
On the 29th of April two steamers
hove in sight of the storm-teased ma
rin rs, which now renewed all their
Iong-cherished and constantly -blighted
expectations of rescue. They made
signals, but were probably not observed.
This fresh and heart-rending disap-
poinhnent was atoned for on the NOR
row, when the sealing steamship Ii
gress, of ST. Johns, Newfoundland, ac-
cidentally, in a dense fog, steamed
against the very foe of ice which was
their habitation.
| THREE CHEERS FROM THE RESCUED COM
PANY
Rent the air, and were as vehemently
and ioyfully sent back by the one hun
dred and thirty men who composed the
Tgrass' crew. Here, in getting on
board the steamer, Hans Christian lost
his invaluable record of the voyage,
written by himself, in the Esquimaux
language, which, but for that misfor-
tune, your correspondent would now be
able to place before the public, trans
lated. The proverbial hospitality of
Observation-Disclosures was not wanting in
this case. The adventurers were cared
for with the utmost attention and kind
ness, the sailors giving them their own
suits and under-elothing, boots, all ne
eessary apparel, and their private stores
of tea, sugar. coffee and many other
things, with other acts of goodness ap-
prOpriate to such circumstances, which
are too numerous to relate.
1tth IAthESSs
Having called at Bay Roberts, arrived
at st. Johns on the 18th of May, IN the
afternoon; but the news of the wonder
full experiences and recovery of the
abandoned party had been partially tel
egraphed several days before. Their
arrival was impaiently expected, and
no sooner had the ship dropped anchor
in the harbor than crowds, putting of
in boats. besieged the decks and over
whelmed the strangers with intense Gu
, riosity and torrents Of questioning as
to the origin of their strange condiiion
and the unparalleled capabilities which
had safely brought them trinmphantly
through SO many and stupendous perils.
Captain Tyson and BIr. Myers refused
70 land till NIGHT. on account Of tha d;