The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-06

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 a 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
soven or eight feet. The weather,
which had been fine for some days pre-
viously, with hardly any wind, sudden
ly shifted, and
a 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 a IOud and deafening ex-
pIosion. 4 cry was at once raised to
g stand by the boat" Fred Myer, in
the darkness (for it was night manage
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 were to be seen and no
thing heard, save the roaring of the
tempest and the grinding and crunching
of the cIumpers 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 rer 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 luIled and the surge subsided,
and, straining his eyes through the
bIacIlness of that PIutonian night in
the direction of which he supposed the
rest Of the party were, he discovered
the two EsqHmaux, Joe and Hans, each
standing on small piece of ice, and
adding toward him. These intrepid
and hardy sons of the ''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
rified with awe. But for them the ice
seemed to have no terrors as for common
men. In a second the horrors of the
preceding moment were forgotten. Hope
once more bloomed in all its fuIIness,
of the innumerable perils
beyond, and, strength thus revived with
eager hope, the boat was launched and
they joyfulIy reioineI their compan-
ions.
HELP AT LAST.
On the 29th of April two steamers
hove in sight of the storm-teased ma
rinars, which now renewed all their
long-cherished and constantly-blighted |
Of rescue. They made |.
signals, but were probably not observed. /
This fresh and heart-rending disap-
pointment was atoned for on the NOR /
row, whom the sealing steamship Ii /
gress, of st. Johns, Newfoundland, ac-
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 Joyfully sent back by the one hun /
dred and thirty men who composed the /
IIgress' crew. Here, in getting on