The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-28
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Gruesome Tale Of Seal Hunter
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Theodore Anderson. one Of the crew OF
the Victoria sealing chooner Arietis. Vas
among the passengers from Japan BY the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Compnnys
steamship Empress Of Indis. recently
arrived. He IL was Who. with two COM
panions. lost the. schooner in fog and
was only rescued after Isidors and john
ME. his comrades IN misfortune, had suc-
cumbed 10 hunger and exhaustion. An
derson still suffers from his terrible trip.
and will be unable to engage in any hard
work for some time TO come. He thus
tells the story OF his trap. simply but
dramatically:
I'VE left the schooner at 5 o'clock on the
morning of June I, the vessel then being
about eighty miles off Yen-os-kifna- Steer
ing due west until II 30. We got dozen OK
more seals but lost sight Of the schooner.
Then We pulled to the windward for q
mile or 90. and started for where we loft
her BY the compass. She must nave
shifted, for We couid find no trace Of her,
after puiling hard until Z in the evening.
We iistened for the boom Of gun, hut
not . sound came over the waters for fully
three hours. Then We did catch the sound
Tar away to the northwest, and started to
trace IL mp. All night 70 kept pulling TO
the northwest. and listening tor q second
report OF the gun. We didn't get il till
In the morning, and then it seemed just rs
distant a. the day before. the water every
hour Was getting worse. and We could see
there was gale rising. 50 We did the best
We could to prepare for IL We TOOK the
fifteen skins that were in the boat with the
mast and oars and tied them securely to
the painter for . sea anchor. A shark,
however. soon made away with the
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with our guns. As We we're flashing the
ammunition boz also to the rope we cap
sized. The air compartments in the ends
nghted the boat ut once. All three of us
got in again and started to bail the boat.
but soon had TO give il mp AZ = bad job. In
spite Of all We could do the boat capsized
repeatedly. and each time left Us weaker.
tsced him short distance behind when
was swimming for the boat. and just -
glanced around again ON getting 20 the
boat aaw the swish OF . sharks tail and
knew that Johnnie Was done for. The
same shark got all our provisions when
the boat went over first. The sixth time
We capsixed Isidore was lost. He was too
weak 70 make Che boat even ii he could see
hef IN the darkness.
As midnight came ON it grew calmer.
and after baiiing out with the compass
box. which. being dashed TO the boat, did
not carry away. ! sat down to wait. Two
days and two nights l sat there helpless
and alone. without . particle OF food. q
drop OF water. an oar or a sail. Then
was washed upon little island. IcrawIed
out on hands and knees aud little way
up the beach found two baskets Of gu!ls'
eggs which the natives had been gather
ing. They returning seemed 10 under
stand. and when SAID Yokohama
nodded their heads and beckoned. Then,
seeing was too weak to walk. they took
turns carrying me. They took me to their
little fishing village, and from there went
inland over the mountains on a little AMI
NAL something like donkey. but not one.
never saw such beast before The next
place | reached wns Yen-os- kima, where I
vas taken in charge by the native police
and sent by them to Yokohama. The
British consul paid my passage across and
saw that all my necessities were supplied"