Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-09-03

he felt the warm alcohol sizzling IN MS
veins. The. Young man. was more ore
frightened than. hurt. At one stage OF
the proceedings Mrs. Peary was get
ting ready to 60 to his succor.
A seal was sighted at daybreak Wed
nesday, June II, fifty feet from the snip,
but there was no one around to shoot
him. That is an experience that is be.
ginning to be rather Chestnut
When the huntsmen are around the
game isn't, and when the game
is there no one else is. shark
was seen yesterday and Professor
Heilorin, the only man on board with
out a gun, found some bear tracks on
the foe.
After turning in last night we had
good old-fashioned Christmas snow
storm that awoke recollections OF ,yule
logs and other things. We could nave
played SNOWFALL this morning. At lO:45
A. NJ, we started crashing ahead again
to the north. The Kite lurched and
cavorted SO that writing was hard work.
Perhaps that is all the better, as 1t
doubtless saved the public a good deal
of unnecessary autobiography. A
fisherman takes the mail ashore, but we
have been cut off from all communl-
cation for two days. Gibson has
fashioned a sharp hook with the en-
gineer's blacksmith outfit. Thresher
sharks are said to abound here.
Behind the the line of mountains we
get an occasional glimpse ct the huge
ice cap which covers the country. 1t is
the weight of this mass squeezing itself
out between the mountains that forms
the glacier. Little fleets of bergs float
slowly from the fredericksburg on
their way down to the Newfoundland
waters to block up the Straits Of Belle
Isle and get in the way of the Atlantic
liners. When Wedged in among the Ice
of Belle Isle it was very much colder
than it is now in latitude "a degrees.
Overcoats are quite unnecessary. The
The sun is very warm, although there
are millions of tons of ice piled up on
the land within ten miles of us. Captain
Pie wore a straw hat and little else one
summer and he meant to come up with
the same equipment this trip, but he
could find no straw-hat shop in New
York, he says.
The bug catchers from the Academy
have diverted their thoughts from
work dipping up sea weed, of which
large quantities float past us. 1t looks
very much like the ordinary sea weed
of commerce, such as one procures at
Coney Island. DR.. Buck has his micro
scope on the taffrail and each inch Of
weed is gone over for sign Of animal life.
DR.. Sharp makes a specially of tape
worms and parasites, ands every living
thing we get is yanked open for speci-
mems. When we were catching Goldfish
he was busy with his dissecting knife.
Each cod was alive with the
worms, but they did not seem to disturb
the serenity of the fsh's life. DR..
Mengel has developed wonderful APP
petite lately, and this afternoon Prof.
Sharp was detected looking hungrily at
him with his specimen knife ground
down to a fine point.
We are beginning to find a certain
amount of sameness IN the food. DR..
Keely laid in stock of canned tomatoes
al Sydney and they are such welcome
addition to the diet list that the expe
dition makes pig of itself at the table
when they appear The culinary de-
partment of the ship, which gets up
about o'clock in the morning, is gen
orally slowed in it's bunk by 8 at night,
and then three or four festive souls take
forcible possession Of the cooks galley,
and hold it against all corners.
1t is our last sunset tonight. Peary's
party will not see the sun set for
three months. We who stick to the
Kite will have continual daylight until
the end of August. 1t seems strange to
go to bed in broad sunshine and food
like Welsh rarebits feels out of place
at that time. Hot toddy will lose much
of it's charm.
All the Esquimaux who came aboard
brought with them handkerchiefs Or bags
containing articles for sale. These con-
sisted for the most part of moccasins and
tobacco pouches made out of the skin
of the hair seal. There were also seal
skin breaches and jumpers, but not of a
frst-class kind, as there have been
three whaling steamers from Dundee
here this season which have taken near
ly everything purchasable left by the
Danish officials. Very attractive little
kayaksare made by the Esquimaux con-
tanning a miniature whaling and sealing
outfit. These retail at about $1.25 in
cash, or % cents worth of wool or linen
shirts. Cash is at discount here, one
of the few places in the world where
it is. They prefer merchandise.
Trousers are the article in greatest
demand. Skin breeches are two warm
for the summer and the natives don't
get very much cloth. At first they de-
clined to take any other currency than
trousers, and they would have nothing
with hole or patch in it. 1t mattered
not how old or shabby it was as long as
it was reasonably thick aud upper
forated. Tobacco and knives, we had
always understood, were invaluable
here, but we could 90 nothing with
them, as this is a trading post and is
we'll supplied.
WALTER W1NANs, the American mil
lionaire, whose deer forest in Scotland
has so often formed the theme of par