The New York herald., 1878-12-05
ANTARCTIC vOYAGING.

CAPTAIN DUNBAR's ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS or
THE FLYING FIsH-CovERED WITH ICE.
The German bark 0. Kohan, Captain H. c. Dade
commanding. arrived in this port yesterday from
Iquique of the coast of Peru whence she had taken
load Of guano The O. Roman had on board por-
ton of the crew of the Flying Fish. schooner
of seventy-fve tons burden, built at Gloucester,
Mass and owned by Lawrence d Co., Of New
London. Conn. which was abandoned October G. in
latitude Al deg. 90 min south, longitude ~ deg 10
min. west The following particulars of the loss Of
his vessel (somc of which have already appeared in
the HERaLp) were obtained from Captain William
Dunbar
The Flying Fish sailed from New London on the
oath Of last June with of sixteen men, bound
to South Georgia in quest of seal and
lion. On the 3Oth Of August in latitude 81
deg. 30 min. south, longitude Al deg.
10 min. west, the vessel encountered a
heavy gale from the south and was soon
covered with ice. the head gear and nearly all the
rigging being frozen stiff The ice on the deck and
sides foot thick and all hands employed
for several days in cutting it away to prevent the
vessel from sinking. Icebergs and large fields
OF ice were to be in all dircc-
tions. On the 10th Of September the weather
being then clear. with strong westerly breczes.
a pack of ice discovered. extending from north
west to southeast far the eye could reach. The
following afternoon. at four o'clock, Willes Island
sighted twenty miles away. within ten miles OF
the island belt of water. eight ten miles wide.
and extending south-southeas was found to contain
iccbergs. The schooner lay to, chains
bent and the anchors got ready.
A TERRIBLE POSITION.
At ten o'clock the wind hauled around to north
cast with binding snow storm. The land then lay
directly east and the icepack due west At midnight
the wind again changed, this time blowing hurri-
cane from the south. In short time the schooner
was encasel in of ice and began to settle down
at the head the rising above the forecaste floor
The pumps would not work and all hands
employed in cutting away the ice. The hands and
feet of some of the sailors frozen. This state
of afairs continued till the 14th inst the southern
gale blowing the Flying Fish constantly to the north
"She was now said Captain Dunbar. "a complete
iceberg, with very little wood to be seem. The deck
beams worked badly every time the vessel rolled.
"On the 10th the weather moderated. the ice was
cut away. allowing the vessels head to rise. 1t
found that leak had been sprung and gradually
increasng but the pumps We're now fortunately in
condition to be worked. Gales and icebergs were
encountered September %. % and -. and, ms
the vessel hardly IN condition to sail. the boats
were made ready abandon her. On the 2gth the leak
increased in size and the schooner headed north
west. under easy sail, to get into the way of
vessels bound round Cape Horn. This was about
hundred miles from South Georgia. Ten icebergs
were in sight some of them four five miles long
and surrounded with much drift ice. On the morn
ing of October .. when matters approaching
crisis, the bark q. kohan sighted and hove to.
The too rough to allow the boats to be low
cred, and that night the water in the hold gained
rapidly. At daybreak Captain Dunbar lowered two
boats taking the sick in his Capszing the
way the bark they barely escaped with their lives
On the 10th of October the English brig Hannah.
Captain Thomas Jones. bound to Buenos Ayres. took
eight Of the shipwrccked men from the o. kohan and
four days later the Portuguese brig Pedro. bound to
pcrnambuco, took five of tile eight who remained.
Captain Dunbar speaks in the highest terms OF cap
tain Dadcs treatment Of himself and fellow sufferers