The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12

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Ellison, a little of the biscuit he had in
his pocket, which they munched slow
ly and deliberately. Then he gave
them another bit, while Norman opened
n of the cans of penmican. Scraping
off q little with a knif6 Colwell fed them
slowly by turns. 1t was a pitiable sight.
They could not stand up, and had
dropped down on their knees, and held
out their hands begging for more. After
they had each been fed twice, they
were told that they had had enough,
that they could not eat more then
without danger; but their hunger had
now come back with full force. and they
begged piteously to be helped again pro-
testing that it could do them no harm.
Colweli was wisely deaf to their On.
treaties and threw away the can. When
Greedy found that he was refused, he
took out a can of the boiled sealskin,
which had been carefully kusbanded,
and which he said, he had q right to eat
as it was his own. This was taken away
from him, but while Colwell was at work
trying to raise the tent, some one got
the half-emptied can Of pemmican, and
by the time it was discovered the party
had scooped out and eaten its contents.
The weaker ones were like children
petulant, rambling and fitful in their
talk, absent and sometimes q little in
coherent. While they were waiting for
the return of the boat, Colwell and the
ice masters did their best to cheer them
up by telling them that relief was at
hand, and that the others would o o
arrive. They could not realize it and
refused to believe it. So they were hui
mored, and by way of tax.
ing up their thoughts. Colwell
told them something that had been go
ing on in the world during their three
years of exile. Curiously enough, there
was much that they knew already. 1t
turned out that among the stores from
the Proteus were two boxes of lemons,
and the fruit had been wrapped up in
scraps of English newspapers-"those
lemons which your dear wife put up for
us" as one of them said to Colwell, in 9
moment of wandering fancy. The lat.
ter could only discharge the imaginary
obligation to an imaginary person, but
the impression had already faded.
Meanwhile the Bear had arrived and
Lowe had gone off in the cutter, taking
with him Sergeant Long. In reply to
questions, Long, IN a husky voice, told
his s~tory-that all were dead except
Greedy and five others, who were on
shore in '.sore distress-sore distress"
that they had had a hard winter, and
"the wonder was how in Gods name
they had pulled Through No words
can describe the pathos of this mans
broken and enfeebled utterance as he
said over and over "a hard
winter-ah hard winter, : and the officers
who were gathered about him in the
ward room felt an emotion which most
of them were at little pains to conceal.
The first sign OF the relief expedition
which had reached the camp was the
sound from the steam whistle of the
Thetis, recalling the shore parties at
Payer harbor. Lieutenant Greedy,
lying on the ground in his tent, had
heard it, as it was borne family over
the neck Of land, but the others had
not noticed it in the roaring wind, and
when he had told them he had heard a
steamers whistle, they thought it only
the impression of his disturbed magma
ton. Long crawled out ofthe tent and
bracing himself against the wind, strug-
gled up to the ridge; but nothing could
be seer but the rocky coast and the ice
foot and the chopping sea, with the
pack stretching off in the distance. 1t
was a bitter disappointment. Long
went back disheartened, but after wait
ing ~uneasily a little while longer, he
mounted the ridge q secondtime. Still
there was nothing to be seen but the
same hopeless prospect, and he was
about to return again when the cutter
came into view around the point above.
With most of them the rescue hardly
made a revulsion of feeling. Except
the commander, they took it as a matter
of course. There was d little, a very
little excitement, and they we're per-
haps more than ordinarily talkative,
but in general they did not seem to rise
or fall much above OF below the level OF
ordinary good spirits. Probably Of
tough fibre to begin with, their year
of privation and hopelessness had
blunted or deadened their recollection
of the world, as they had known it, and
the feelings to which the recollection
gave rise. Notwithstanding his inter
view witE Colwell, Greely's first ques-
ton when the party from the Bear
came up, was-1whether they we're not
Englishmen 2" and upon being told that
they were his countrymen, he said,
IT am so glad to see YOU"
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