The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-31
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While at Anadgosk they heard rumors of
party OIL white men who came on a fire-ship
lsteamer) and had been seen by natives and
meLe now living on the bank of a river near
Behrlng Strait, in house under ground
win round iron hole for smoke to come ont
oI. AS these reports gathered from differ
ent natlveS took form they concluded it
Imn I De party OF explorers who left San
francisco by steamer shortly after they did
and 1t was decided to start on an expedition
TO rescue them. Late in january with
eleven natives and large teams of dogs, they
Started on their perllous journey with the
'uei ddi rti registering "A degrees below.
"a uIamatlc picture of the last night of this
o ons y. search was given. The sun died
out IN rosy flush at 2 p. m, aud the moon
tnat arose seemed seemed a lost world. wild,
Mierd, nyrri6le Night shut down and even
ti tue oiopa req orb was playing at our imagin-
ZION. The natives seemed oppressed and
sang no more By refraction the moon was
uistorted, now an oval, now a long bar of
olood aud now triangle of red in the heav-
ems ems near the horizon. Far away stretched
the frozen lands.
To camp for rest and food with no fire
meant death and the natives and dogs were
last becoming exhausted. The feet of the
poor dogs were swollen and bleeding leaving
distinct trail of blood over the snow At
this point Mr.. bod became exhausted and
gave out. sinking down to sleep: an order
was given to camp and decided to use one
OF the sledgeS for fire but Just
then halo! from the advance party told
that something was found; it proved to be
an old. abandoned, whale ship, but 1t was
sign of life and near help. 1t was near by
that the long sought stove pipe was sticking
9 ap through snow bank | walked about it
After searching but finding no door, the
stove pipe was used as speaking tube and
halo was given. ''Who's there?" came from
below. Come out and see; where's the
door? ''At the southeast corner of the
snow drift" In this dug-out were five COM
rades and friends from whom we had parted
In San Francisco, and who had sailed for ST.
IBERIA and were caught by the intense cold
here. and for five months had existed in this
place. The change from $50 below. outside,
to So above, inside, caused Mr.. bod and N.Y.
self to faint several times, but after resG of
hve days we were able to start with our res
cued party.
counts of how they would spend their long
nights. They discussed every sort of SUBJ
ject to the bare bone, related all their life
history and that of their ancestors, and as
last resort. would fall back on the size of the
army of Xerxes or the extent of the flood.
The close of the lecture was description of
wonderful aurora in which the poet of the
orator Was most apparent. After nearly
three years spent in the work of exploration,
cutting of telegraph poles and planting of
station houses they learned that the Trans
Atlantic Gable. was success and their
work must be abandoned. 1t was with great
joy and relief to themselves that they babe
farewell to the sorrowful natives whose old
brass cannon sounded forth to them their
last farewell as they left for their own dear
native land