, 1888-01-08

Of Ice, however, 30 hunt for nm animal
tho drifting waters might separate
them from 1t 70 that they could
mover return, md this proba-
bility would conflnO their hunting
tours TO II very limited area. So, take
II all in all, however dark and dismal
their outlook seemed, there were many
bright possibilities breaking through the
black clouds, and after the first depres-
sion was over they looked at things in q
far moro cheerful light. They went TO
sleep carly to a their oil, curling up on
the snow bed in their reindeer Clothes-a
not unusual circumstance, for they often
stay out nt night TO hunt, building q
small igloo TO sleep in-the only change
being 10 withdraw their arms frsm their
sleeves and fold them on their bare
breasts, n common practice among these
people when in n chilly, fireles3 NOW
houss or taking n nap in their clothes.
IL was almost certain that they would
not be missed the first night at tbs vii
lage sufficient 10 aus alarm, al nightly
absences OF huntcr5 arc frequent when
watching q seal hole or whom success has
taken them far away
Hero thoy were, then, calling AWAY In
tho dead OF night with n lighted ship
that could carry thougands OF tons OF
freight, and this, too, in the very midst
Of m Arctic winter and despite the as
sertions OF many newspapers of the At
lnntic scabOard that, jealous OF thoir
Canadian cousins and their proposed
Hudson bay route 10 England, have con
gtantly asserted that 1t Ia only n~nvigable
for a month or two during very favor
able summers. The stormy night wore
out its weary length, and when at 10
o'clock tho day began breaking there wa
GomO fign of cessation in tho stormy
quarter, but they could hear tho outlying
ics pack growing like distant thunder,
though their littlo island Of ice wns still
intact and In comparatively smooth
water.
To their agreeable surprise tho signs
kept IN for tho better, and somo three
hours later-tho length Of the short day
snw tho storm ccHse and the early evening
gave them n breeze from tho south
which, coupled with tho northern current
in tho bay, gent them floating toward
home, tho happiost crow in the Polar
seas. Lato that night n Polar bear broke
Into thsir 1toro igloo, before oven tho dog1
wore aware Of its presence, and they got
out to savo their meat. A scufle snEued
with the dogs, 81 unsuccessful shot wa
fred and bruin went scurrying away with
ths doss in hot pursuit., one Of them
never coming bacls, but whether he was
Loaf on a cake OF ice in the darkness by its
floating away, or tho bear mAdo a mOal
Of him was mover known.
All that night tho long southern Iwells
OF tina sea broke on the leo in a pleasant
air that snng Of home, and noxt day, be-
fore the night set in thoy could make oSt
tho tops of tho high hills OF North Hud-
aon'h bay in the clear blue distance. That
night their Zoo struck something, and
tho light grinding Of Tho edges showed
plainly that many pieces Of leo were
keeping them company on the outer edge
Of the pack, and aS this shortly ceased it
was evident that other incoming ice Ea8
between them and the soa, and that they
We're stranded ON the shore leo or not far
from ID.
Next mornings light revealed to them
that they had a mile OF ''npckn to cross,
which they carefully di1, leaving the
walrus TO Keep house, and this brought
them on ths shore ice somo fifteen miles
from home, and IL over Eskimo dogs
were whipped and pounded this team
certainly was, and ni.htfsll saw them
homo giving a description of their peril
Gus adventures, trying to prove the navi-
gability Of the Hudson's bay route in tho
depth Of an Arctic winter. Frederick
SchwatkA in Now York Mail and Exprcss.