The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-22

venting the excessive cold, for the next
Two weeks. being so disastrous tc the
crew As it otherwise might have been
1t wss At first thought that food would
De easy TO obtain, but in the middle of
March there was scarcely two weeks
meat remsiniDg. Every bear that was
now seen was eagerly watched. Woe to
Inc man WHO missed 9 shot. Good for
tsne, however, seemed never to desert
US. Before the end of March eight
bears had been killed. and in April the
olros came back. Every effort was
made to climb the cliff. The land foe
extended seven or eight miles; so no wal
rus could be killed. Bears were very
scarce out In June strong gale cleared
the ice away and the Walrus were swim
ming In the water in hundreds. Five
we're KILLED IN one dsy. For some days
nothlng was done but cooking large cop
pers iuli OF meat and turning it off for the
ooat journey. On June 2lst, 1882, four
boats were started from Cape Flora with
twenty-five men, and the provisions for
two months: Eighty miles Of water
were crossed before we encountered any
Ice. Then our troubles began, Some
times Tor days the boats we're hauled up
on noe; no water could be seen to en-
ablee them to proceed south, EdragRinR
the boats over the ice being out OF the
question: on account Of the roughness of
the ice. After six weeks Of almost con-
slant toll. water was reached and our
course set for Nova Zembla. After
reaching the water q southwest breeze
sprang up and enabled the boats to sail
about five knots, but soon increased to a
gale, which was as much a. the busts
could stand. A heavy thunder storm
came on and lasted some hours with
heavy rain, drenching every one; but no
one thought Of vet clothes, Is we knew
Nova ZemblA must soon be sighted.
Within twenty-four hours Of leaving
the ice, four boats were safely hauled on
the beach at Mstochyen Straits. It was
on the evening Of August 2lst. Next
morning, after breakfast, q schooner was
seen coming out Of the straits. A boat
went to her. The boats crew was most
heartily welcomed by q ringing cheer,
long before they got alongside. The
schooner proved to be the William Bar
rents, commanded by Captain Hoffman,
Whe, with his officers, showed every pos
sible kindness 10 the men, on their way
10 Barrent's Straits. The boats crew
said the Hope was anchored within mile
Of the place where the rest of the EiTd's
crew were still encamped. Previous to
this, several shots had been heard By the
EITG's party early in the morning, which
afterwards we're found to be fred BY
some Russian from the schooner anchored
in the same bay as the Hope. The Rus
slams had seen the hat in which the
EETGs' crew were housed and intended
to reyort the matter to the commodore of
the Hope, but the information was anti
cip2te1 by the crew Of the Nm. BdTrentS
Mr.. Leigh Smith states that he intended
to 60 straight, and must OF necessity
have seen the Hope, having previously
observed the staff marking the SPOT on
which Sir Allen Young had left record
for him, situated at point in the bay in
which the Hope anchored, and which
Mr.. Smith intended to have visited
as soon as his. men had sufficiently
rested. The Vim. BdTTents crew had
been in company with the Hope. and
had just sailed ten minutes before seeing
the Era boats crew. A boat had been
sent on shore to take Mr. Smith
on board the Hope, where he and the re-
ainder Of the crew were cheerfully vel.
| COmeu Oy olC AllenJ VINO nAQ sent al
hands from the Hope to bring
the rest Of the party on board
Every effort was made By the com
mander of the Hope, and the nAva
officers under him, to render the condi
ton Of the men as comfortable as pos
sible. Sir Allen Young started as SCOT
IS possible for England, and reached
Aberdeen on the morning of the Goth Of
August, within two hours of the ami
verEary Of the day on which the EirO
wss Lost.