The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-28

about Greely's not distributing the stores right
he did what he thought best. The relief ex-
petitions did not carry out their instruC-
tons and make good the damaged food Ia
the English cache. If the stores had been
left on the coast we would not have got il
on our retreat We were bound to come 20 Sa-
bine anyway. If we had found record there,
we could have gone back and got the stores or
made camp where there was the biggest supply.
Our plan was to make Iittleton island. bat we
could not get down there
ibid Cornell ever try to shirk his dutyqu
This query had the effect of making Long I'M
communicative. He was reticent a3out sneak
ing u of any of his companions. and tried
throughout the interview to speak wellof every
body. After other questions less pointed Serrt
Long said:
''Connell was continually kicking and grum.
bling The night / killed the bear when our
food was nearly out l did not think he acted
right. He was one of the strongest of us, but
when we asked for volunteers to 90 and pull ia
the bear he complained of being sick and would
not go. We had to take his word for IT, but I
did not think he was SICK only trying to shirk.
When started ont to try to kill the bear Kis.
lingbury came to the top of the hill which we
called Cemetery Ridge-where we buried the
dead-and started to follow. / was so far away
that he could not overtake me. Some OF the
men who went out were almost too weak to pull
in the animal, but | wanted to get u
in that night, and would have brought it in
myself If | had been obliged to take it IN
pieces. But Connell would not go, while other
men less able than he volunteered. That was on
the evening of May IL, 1884. and we had but lit
tie food left Brainard issued two ounces of ba-
con to each man who went, and when we got
back Greedy gave orders to make stew of every
thing that was left There might have been half
a pound of meat that was not used, but not more
than that Brainard WAS the first to see the
bear and came back to the camp exhausted. All
we could get out Of him was bear, bear He
had been to the shrlmpine-grounds and had NO
followed right along his track, and the Esouimaux
went out with US between and O'Clock. saw
bear tracks two days before and had been hunting
for him. l had hard work to keep the men
quiet before starting, and went off as fast as
could. The bear Just showed his paw over Gem
etery ridge and fred at him. Then he ran as
fast as ne could, stopping to look back, and then
on he went again / sent the Esquimaux one
way and went another and crawled about ten
miles to get around between him and the water.
got within about 1000 yards of the
water and saw him sitting down. We crept
up to him and the Esquimaux got the first
shot | ran up within one hundred and fifty
yards and fred three shots. The last lodged in
his head and killed him. The bear was then
thirty yards from the open water and twelve Of
formed in the night When shot took off my
cap and gloves, and did the best could, for it
was our last chance for food thought. Soma
of the men grumbled because ! missed him on
the ridge, but there | didn't have good show.
The place where killed him was three miles, in
a straight line, from the camp. and finished
him at 535 He weighed, should think three
hundred and fifty or four hundred pounds, and
kept US alive until we were rescued"