Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-02-05
THE INSIDE WORLD:
STORY OF THE FUTURE.
i' BY JULIA 8. FERN.
CHAPTER VI.

were over, "and the sledges and the
dogs and the instruinents9 You must
hays inst with nisfortunes as wen as
ourselves" .... ....t..- ..
We have, indeed, but it's long
story and We will get back to the ships
first, or at any rate, tell it on the way.
Where are the ships? 'fF ~..>r
Without making direct answer, Ar
thur turned toward the icy peaks and
spires that half a mile away rose to o
height or more than three thousand
feet and said, l" Can you climb that
wall?" 49, '.l-- .;f
II have climbed it," said the young
man gazing at the towers and pinnacles
that now glittered brightly in the morn
ing sunshine, but once in q lifetime is
enongh; I shall die on this warm arctic
sea, before I try that again, It was in
our descent from those very ice-crags
that MI our misfortunes came upon us.
But where are the ships?" sa esi
'tWhere we shall never see any of
them again." replied Arthur. And
then followed the detailed account of
their journey which has already been
given in the course of this narrative.
/ Inman Tuttls told his story of the
fate of the picked twenty, who had
started Oh the previous July over
Washington Land to the Polar sea.
There were only three of them left.
They came as related in the previous
chapter, in q small open boat, one of
two that the party had taken upon
sledges, as part Of their outfit. The
other boat, the dogs. the instruments,
all were lost. q7saF no,s h ae.3aa
Perhaps we'll meet them i'll another
world" said the young man with po-
etical turn of mind, formerly mate of
the Clata,oa.
'.Truth!" said Inman, "I've thought
that over great many times, and we
may see them again. " You see they
have the provisions and the instruments
and though they cannot steer their
craft its bound to go some,olsere, and I
would not be surprised to meet it yet
on the inside, ,,....e..5 a.;.f ..,.,s...
"What is their craft9" enquircd
Captain Cannon. "They must be a
shiftless set if they can't contrive to
steer her. Ishould Just like to see the
craft that I couldn't steer"
"Its an icebergr' cody responded
Inman. An iceberg that will girt ten
miles as we'll as I can Judge; and the
top Of it is nearly thousand. feet out
of water. This huge mass is floating
somewhere within hundred miles Of
US. carried about, by currents suoh as
are probably found nowhere else on
this earth, nor inside of it either, And
they are all on it, sixteen Of them, at
least, Think one man was drowned,
for where the ice split we saw him fall
| into the erevice, ind moment later
saw nothing but the boiling water Ave
hundred feet belo'y, We dropped q
small flag into this seething gulf, tc
| determine something concerning the
motion Of the water, but il Immediately
disappeared and by this we knew thai
the body of our comrade had in, simi
4 lar manner been carried down to rise
/ no more, n fa1s'ai ''in2 ~ Y
4 Arthur and his companions then re
4 lated the circumstance Of their having
found flag. and BY comparison o
dates, it was concluded that the ont
party had picked up the fag dropped
4 by the other. The party under Cap
tain Inmrlan had been separated by th
sudden parting Of the ice over whicl
they were iaurnsying. With almos
infinite labor, they had climbed the ic
|. mountains that overlooked the Pola
Sea, probably not for from the Ifats
= prison wall that shut in the Clataw
I and her crew, While gazing With
: delight akin to that oi Moses on Pisga
J at the open sea before them. the ic
parted with sound as Of thunder. an
al Inman and his two companions wei
Y on the mainland and the reste Of ID
: company were foating on On iceberg
I A moment later, and the boat, The onl
Z one that they had preserved in dral
. gipg so for, slid into, the water an
iioated idly about beyond The reach