Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-09-02

| he felt the warm alcohol Sizzling IN dis
veins. The young man was more
the proceedings Mrs. Peary was get
ting ready to go to his succor.
A seal was sighted al day We'd
nesday, June II, fifty feet from the ship,
but there was no one around to shoot
| him. That is an experience that is be-
ginning to be rather a chestnut"
| When the huntsmen are around the
game isn't, and when the game
is there no one else is. A shark
was seen yesterday and Professor
Heilorin, the only man on board with
out gun, found some bear tracks on
| the foe.
After turning in last night we had q
| good old-fashioned Christmas snow
! logs and other things. We could have
played SNOWFALL this morning. At 10:45
A. NJ, we started crashing ahead again
for some imaginary clear water
to the north. The Kite lurched and
| cavorted SO that writing was hard work.
Perhaps that is all the better, as it
doubtless saved the public a good deal
of unnecessary autobiography. A
| fisherman takes the mail ashore, but we
have been cut off from all commune
cation for two days. Gibson has
| fashioned 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 of 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 Frederickshaab 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 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
birds and fish and are vigorously at
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 tatfrail and each inch OF
weed is gone over for sign of animal life.
DR.. Sharp makes a speciality OF tape
worms and parasites, ands every living
thing we get is yanked open for specl-
mems. When.we were catching Goldfish
| he was busy with his dissecting knife.
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 fine point.
We are beginning to find q certain
amount of sameness in the food. DR..
| Keely laid in a stock of canned tomatoes
al Sydney and they are such welcome
addition to the diet list that the expe-
dition makes a pig of itself at the table
when they appear. The culinary de-
partment of the ship, which gets up
about 4 o'clock in the morning, is gen
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 its charm.
All the Esquimaux who came aboard
brought with them handkerchiefs or bags
containing articles for sale. These cor
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 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
1t 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, buts we could Go nothing with
them, as this is a trading post and is
well supplied:
WALTER WINANs, the American mil
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