St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-10
Visits to Arctic Ice Fields and
a Taste Of Siberian
Mines.
Fancies Of Fiction Writers al
a Discount, II This Be
True.
How the Actions Of a Dog De-
veloped a Tale Of Terri
BILE Days.

| feet of a man who was engaged in read
Ing a newspaper. The dog was an I'M
menSe fellow, aud his face, if such an
expression can be used, seemed to wear
| perpetual scowl. He would turn his
head suspiciously toward any person
who approached him. and seemed to
| jealousy guard the person of his mas
| ter from unwelcOme intrusion.
IL value that dog more than my life"
| said the owner, who was registered as
| Jonas j. Allen, Nantucket, Conn. I'm
fact, were it not for him would not be
here, but rather in the bottom of mine
in Siberia" The speaker presented
strange appearance. He looked some
thing like the pictures of the hairy man
| advertised by circuseS, and said to have
| been captured in the Island of BorneO.
His head was covered with thick mass
| of jet-black hair streaked with gray.
and it seemed to run all over his face,
| down his collar and in his nostrils and
ears. The back of his hands were Gov
| cred with thick growth of hair which
| extended down TO the tips of his fingers.
He was tall and upright i'll carriage, and
his face there were lines and burrows
| like the markings Of man twice his
age. He looked to be but about forty
| years of age.
81 am registered from Nantucket, as
you say, but have not been there for
twelve years." he said to a reporter OF
the Clio BE. Il am a sailor. and have
been over good portion Of the cart n,
| principally in the Arctic and Antarctic
seas, however For the past eight
years have been living
The Life Of a wild Man.
living in the inner parts of the earth
and working for cruel and relentless
master, the worst you could think of.
None other than the ear of all the Rus
slams. You see, l was first-mate on
board the Mary Reynolds, a whaler hail
ing from the port of Nantucket, and
one;of the staunchest little vessels that
ever sailed the seas. with crew OF
| sixty men ali told we left Nantucket on
the second day of March, 1881. We
were bound for a cruise into the Arctic
REGIONS in search of the white whale, an
ami nal rather scarce, but very valuable.
1t h d been reported that a school Of
them were in the Arctic ocean around
latitu lie 70 or a. This whale has i'm
mems quantities of blubber Of a SUI
periO quality, and if we only obtained
a SIN Ill number of them the cruise
ould prove good venture.
"W run up into Halifax for the pur-
pose of landing couple of men who
were too sick to be of any service on the
trip, as we were to be gone for three
years. We then struck out around Cape
Race, Newfoundland, and into Davis
straits. We ran into JacoDshavn, Green
land, to buy some fur garments and get
a stock of pemmican, dried deer meat,
which is very easily carried and very
nourishing. We then started through
Bafln's bay, with Cape Liverpool on our
port bow, and then sailed through Lam
caster sound. We had captured two
whales, and were informed by return
ing whaler that the main school was i'll
Melville sound. about latitude 70. But
they were not there when we arrived,
and we looked for them, picking up a
stray one now and then, in McClintOck
channels and Victoria straits In the
Iatter-named waters we found the main
| school. We caught seven before the
school got away, but one day, i'll thick
fog, we lost boat and crew. They DRIFT
ed away, and we were unable to find the
poor fellows. suppose
They FrOze to Death.
1--WE cruised around for SOME time,
| getting fish now and then, and finally
went to Plover Island to try out the
blubber which we had packed in bar
rels. We set the crew ashore, built
out fires and started TO work. The
stencil attracted the attention OF myr-
lads of birds which gathered around our
camp in such numbers that the sailors
became tired of knocking them on the
| 4 = haY En-, mir q
scraps. They made excellent scaven-
gers, but they were not fit to eat. After
we had finished the trying out of the
blubber the captain SAID he thought it
would be good plan to run down into
| Behring sea and endeavor to catch a
few seals to make our women folks som
saeQueS. You know we were all in
partnership, each one having an inter
est in the cruise. We were willing, and
after things had been Strengthened out
on board we set sail.
"We got down into Behring sea and
had the luck to kill about fifty seals
which we found on an ice tloe.- we ran
down still farther and into the Okhotsk
sea, where we met with as strong mis-
fortunes as it was possible for US to
strike. We were sighted by fleet OF
Russian sealerS who came after US, and.
although we fought them tooth and
nail, we were compelled to surrender.
That settled us. We were taken to Ok
hotsk, where our vessel and valuable
cargo, which we had taken SO loug TO
catch, were eontiscated to the cZar. LIN
one way or another we had dwlndled
down to a crew of forty-three men, and,
on being taken to shore, we were sep
arated and locked up in different prls--
ons. Without trial we were ordered
IN q min nf SQUADS
of hald dozen each, we were sent oil
in different directions.
"The party which | was with num-
bered five. We were sent to the village
of AldansKa, and hard trip we had OF
it over the Stanovoi mountains. The
others were left there, but | was or
dered to some place still further i'll the
interior. | had attempted TO escape
sand had knocked one of our guards on
the head. 1t did not hurt him half SO
much as it did me, as was
Loaded With Chains
which had to carry. If stumbled oil
fell | was beaten on the back with theil
cruel whips until wished that l could
sit down and die. They took me t
Yakutsk. where l was locked up fol
about week and then taken mp tC
: ,Jigansk, on the banks of the river
| Lena. lHey lueH LOOh me ~ tne ihlieo
where | was set to work. had task
| to perform each day, and if | did mo-
: do it | did not get anything to eat.
sulked for day or two hoping that they
would starve me to death, but the pangs
: of hunger won and | did my task
Finally | was put to work in a mine al
by myself. 1t was some distance from
the others. and as they did not desire to
set a guard over me they gave me, as al
: agreeable companion, an immense
bloodhound. He and | we're very baC
friends for some time, but when we go
to know each other no one could part
us. Could they, old fellow?"
He stopped and patted the massive
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