The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-03-05
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erty. They were right. The Tchouktchls
towhom the animals belonged had, doubt
less, hidden themselves ON perceiving the
little caravan ofwhite people.
They crossed with infinite trouble and
great danger the mountainous region leading
to the sources of'the Anadyr. The country
had the widest possible look.
Threatening rocks rose perpendicular1y
along deep Valleys the tempestuDus wind
driven into the boys and ravines, whirled
aboutithere nd.escaped with a hiss, rem
deringtthe passage6f the defles toilsome
and perilous.
Sometimes, ,theyywere forced to quit the
sledges and walk beside them along steep
paths on the edges of precipices, into which
the least false step would have suficed to
precipitate them. The dogs had great diff.
Guilty in advancing.
Happily for the travellers, the snow cOv-
cred TELESCOPES and prevented them from
slipping. AT other times. thick fogs sud-
denly surrounded them, shutting of the
sight of their road, until the summit upon
which they happened to be seemed like an
island rising frOmthe midst of an agitated
! sea.
| Finally, they reached the Anadyr, which
cutting the Tchouktchi peninsula, from
north to.south and afterwards to the north
! east. They followed the banks of this river,
and, many times, had occasion to use, to
cross the broad streams which flow into it,
the light skin boat which they had with
them, the materials of which had been
| brought from the hut ON Cape BaranOh by
the Yakoutes.
| Tod %eo1a foxxy dove of month
of the Krasnaia, one of the af1uents of the
| Anadyr, two hundred miles from the sea-
i It was spot favorable for hunting. Be-
sides, the dogs had bleeding paws and re-
| quired rest.
When the fugitives resumed their jour
new. they arrived in less than ten days at
the place where the Anadyr ceases to be a
river and becomes the Bay of Onemene.
It was now necessary for them to shun
the ostrog of Anadyr. They went along the
| coast towards the south, advancing cautious
| ly; they kept near enough to the sea to
watch it and far enough from the shore to
| escape observation.
] The sea was yet encountered with ice
+, blocks They would have to wait until all
these frozen masses were in motion and the
spaces Of water had increased, before they
| could hope to sea sail.
| One day, from the summit of a lofty
promontory the fugitives witnessed that i'm
mense breaking up of the ice, which is the
grandest and most terrifying spectacle that
one can imagine. The icebergs at first move
laboriously from their places. Cracked by
| the thaw and mined by the sea, they crum-
BILE upce themselves with great din. 9th.
ers advance, turning about in the free waters
nj oHu tot Tod NV bpN from ms n
sea; they have menacing look with their
sharp angled protiles and their tottering
| sloping SUBMITS.
The last snow that has fallen, swept by
the wind, arises in dust towards the sky
which it darkens. From time to time, enor-
nous blocks detach themselves from the
principal masses, with defamation like the
discharge of several pieces of artillery.
The fOaming waves stimulate this work OF
disaggregation. The collision of the floating
ice blocks is incessant; they hurl them
selves one upon another, until the repeated
! shocks have reduced them to- powder.
Everything twists and sinks in an immense
| break up.
This time, the sun sent forth warm rays
which colored with pink shades the white
sheet of snow and the blue surface of the
their long impotence, rushed everywhere,
| striking, overturning, destroying, and mum
dating with foam the fields of ice.
The old ice remained attached to the shore
all along the Bay of Onemene, and the
hummocks yet jutted far out into the sea;
but on the main ocean, the blue of the
waters rivalled the blue Of the sky and the
waves rolled their great arches from the
Asiatic to the American shOre-Behring'
Strait was open.
In proportion as the sky and the sea
lighted up, Yermac became more gloomy.
He felt that the decisive hour when he
would lose his prey was approaching, for
there were moments when he imagined that
he was following the fugitives; he compre-
| hended that, pitiless as he wished to be, he
| would have to display audacity and energy,
and he was panied, in spite of all, for, amid
sufferings borne in common, he had at last
become attached to these unfortunates,
who, strong in their innocence were seek
ing to escape from degradation and infamy.
| The fagitives were awaiting iberating
| ship; Yermac was also awaiting this ship,
but with the design of arresting them in
their fight. memorable justice, which he
personifed Sc completely, ordained it and
/ AS WOu1O uOU SuI1AA 1IOL1 GAC OdoA AAupOSOA
upon him, no matter how cruel it might be-
The fugitives had established themselves
at the extremity of a ravine, where, against
a rock of red granite several hundred feet in
height, they had hastily erected hut in
which to hide rather than live. Every mo-
ment not devoted to hunting in the sur
rounding larch forests, or to fishing on the
banks of brook which ran along the hollow
i of fIoc %boxy %bo
tories, occupied in watching the sea. Yer
mac did not fix his eyes on the agitated sur
faces of the waves with less avidity than
his companions.
But June approached and no whalers!
June passed! July came, and still no whal-
ers
Yegor in despair, began to form projects
more impracticable one than another-to
ascend the Anadyr, cross the mountains
which occupy the region and descend to-
! wards the Sea of OkhOfSk at the Gl1lf IF