The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-12

etc, on the ice, the vessel being reported
leaking very badly at times We contn-
ucd landing provisions for two or three
hours when the pressure ceased | went
on board the vessel and asked the sailing
master il the vessel was making any more
water than usual. He reported that she
was not. then went to the pumps and
asccrtaincd that she was not making any
more than she was doing all Summer. /
went on the ice again, and shortly after il
began to crack, and in few minutes after
wards broke In many places. The vessel
broke from her fastcnings and was soon
lost to sight in the darkness and storm. On
the broken ice were most of our provisions
to sustain the party through the winter,
and seeing nothing of the vessel we attcmp-
ted to reach shore in hopes of finding ma
tives to assist us in living through the
winter. Getting about half way to shore
with our heavily laden boats, our progress
became obstructcd by the drifting ice, and
| was compelled to haul on the ice again.
AT this time | succeeded in saving fourteen
cans of pemmican eleven and n half bags
of bread, ten dozen one and two pound
cans of meat and soup, fourteen hams, one
small bag of chocolate weighing twenty
pounds, some musk OK skins, few blan-
kets and a number of rifles and abundant
ammunition. In the morning, knowing
that had not provisions enough and other
articles of food, | endeavorcd to shoot as
many seals as possible, both for food, light
and fuel, but could only get three, owing
to bad weather having set in. | supposed
the wind to be about southwest. On its clear
ing up | found myself within about eight
miles of what supposed to be the cast
coast, and about thirty or forty miles be-
low the ship. The ice being weak. | could
not transport the boats and provisions to
land until it grew stronger While here
discovered my other boat bread, etc, and
saved all. The ice grew firm. made an
other attempt to reach the shore, carrying
everything i'll the boats and dragging them
on their kecls. The ice being exceedingly
rough, we stove both boats. We succeeded
on the list of November in getting about
half way to the 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 continu-
ing all through the month of November
We built snow houses, and made ourselves
as comfortable as we could. We were ten
white men, two EsQuimauX, two women and
five children in ALL We succeeded in kill
ing Il few seals, which furnished us with
light and fuel with which to warm our
scanty allowance of food through the dark
ness Of the Attic Winter. In the latter
part of February we lived principally upon
birds, and in March commenced to catch
seals. Through that month we supported
ourselves on bears and seals ncsh wasting
neither skin nor entrails. We collected
enough food in this way to last lis until the
middle of May. had we not been driven tc
sea by strong westerly gale in the latter
part of March, our foe piece being then
reduced from five miles in circumference tc
about twenty yards in diameter
We left the piece on the LIST of April,
and abandoned nearly all of our meat, q
large amount of ammunition. clothing
skins and other articles taking a portion OF
the meat in the boat, which we were oblig-
ed to throw overheard on account of the
boat being so deeply laden. Iregaincd the
outer edge of the pack of ice on the 3D. OF
April, and succeeded in getting a little fur
ther on the pack. On the 4th a heavy
northeast gale set in. a heavy sea running
under the ice, which broke it in small
pieces, so that we had to live on small
pieces, as we could not put the boat out
neither could we find seals for food, ant
we were reduced almost to starvation. Or
the 21st of April we sighted polar bear
Every person was ordered to lie down ant
initiate the seal while the two Esouimau>
secreted themselves behind a piece of ice
enticing the bear near enough to lis to Kill
him. few days after this we got oul
boat in the water and worked our way wes
and southwest, and continued to work ev
cry opportunity to the westward, in hopes
of reaching the Labrador coast and getting
temporary relief.
We were picked up by the steamship,
Tigrcss, Capt. Bartlett, on the Both OF
April, in latitude 1895 north, longitude 81
west, or near Wolf Island and about forty
miles from land. The Polaris is now with
out boats, having lost two in trying to get
north, in the spring of 1872. The Tigrcss
fell in with the party in Il dense fog, an(
providentally struck the very foe on which
they were otherwise they must have per-
shed. They all seem tolerably well. Capt
Tyson complained somewhat of sWelled leg.
and feet, but however, nothing serious /.
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 states that he felt little anxiety al
first thinking she would soon come to thcii
relief. | set my colors. he said, as she
steamed down along the shore but the YES
sci was soon lost to sight in the bend OF
the land and behind what | took to be
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the wind hauled to the northeast, opening
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