Telegram-herald., 1890-02-03

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of hls slal .ziaas u that faoled snip. the
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tu- Ls finally recUgers5 himself, AID ~sIked
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Ia sags . nla-ae a charming picture . rs
f4ushed ewes. appearing e. Il tormed ~
frosted gas.
Ths mas coEtaaued 20 approach him, and
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TIE run rigg~d ship Young Phoenix, yesse-
With - ~nich hs was familiar
She was = whzleF OF - tOns, from New
Bedford. zRd vas lOst N The Ice pack In the
ArCtIc over year ago. She was crusned
ant So % lea-lng 3y the Ice, 50 that i be
c,lEle Necessary % abandon her hastily, a.
she was thought t0 cs sinking. TINS occurred
a long distance o. the north u Point Barrow
When LeAyitt sighted her she lay cradled
inmovably. with her deck just above the
level II the icy valley where she reclined
Her three nlssts lowered al0ft with still per
feet rake, and shrouds. hackstays, braces
and stays covered with ics ooatings IN fan
tastio shapes, brought out IN the sunlight
IA bold and beautiful relief against the blue
mountains II ice behind
The silent ship lay stern q the SEA- about
my yards from 70, and slightly beeled 10
port The prisuafic effects OF the spectral
S-ene were heightened hy heavy burdens q
snow, which cumbered me decks, the hawser
and the sails OF the vessel Two of the sails
wers shaking their stiffenei tatters idly "A
tine breeze. whils the rest mad the snug msn-o'-
war furl Of a year before. and we're frozen
tightly - the yards. The vessel looked liter
ally shin of ico, for all the world like the
toy suip enshrouded in crystals by the glass
blower arr.
Piucking VI bis courage. Ieavitt finally
won't out % The ice pack and boarded the
snip he found everything intact upon the
decks Just II bad bean left. Not even the
polar bear or the Arctic FOX had paid her a
visit and the rop>e were coiled on the Delaying
pins as the crew had placed them. There We're
no traces of the boats. which had evidently
been tern from ths ships dsvits by the ice /.
but the great quilt Of snow which enshrouded
the Young PheniT from stem 10 stern reveal
81 the hguration Of the matches and para
phernslIa. which showed that she had no time
snce desertiou been rolling IN seas heavy
enough 70 disturb any Of her fittings II Is
supposel. in fact, that she was picked up free
from the water by the same ice pack which
crushed her.
Ieayitt wentdov INTO the ships cabin and
found several articles. which hs dragged over
the fields Of ice 10 ms boat, and conveyed TO
the shore.
he would have continued stripping the YES
SCI, but the zee foe containing her drifted OF
shore on the following day. It remained IN
sight several days afterwards, and then van
iShed 70 the northvard.
Various theories are advanced as to the
probable course the \ ounE Phoenix will now
take, and rs 10 how long 1t will be before she
Is seen again. IL Is very likely. old Arctic
vhalemen say. that the island Of ice now sur
rounding her viii 10 built up by the addition
OF floating masses, and in time she NAV be-
CONE a fixture somewhere around the north
pole. dry docSed IN the ice. for ~ Is said that
IN those remote regions Ice may posses an
acc OF hundreds Of years, and may be contiu-
ualy Gccumulating in one quarter while
breaking of AID diSsipatiug in another
The incident Is said by old whalemen to bo
without parallel IN the annsls Of whale fsh
cry, and thev also add that as the Young
Phoenix seems, from the accounts, TO be liter
ally dry docked in icebergs, there IS but lit
tie doubt that she will 20 swinging around
tho Arctic in intense cold for years perhaps
for centuries. for tho very elements there
viii constitute her protection. Golden Days.