Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20

Lockw oCd had a hole in Ii about a quarter
of an inch in diameter, which was easily
stopped up. The rivets in all the plating Of
tn boats seemed as well set as the day the
craft came from the builders shop. In an
incredibly short time the saiormen had put
up masts with bamboo poles and rugged sail
TO them. The loads in the boats were re-
slowed for voyage.
The Dogs Were Shot.
Twelve Of the dogs are led away behind
the high Ice and shot, POOR recompense for
the services which they have rendered US.
1t was not a cheerful scene, that OF their
execution. They looked up with friendly
eyes at the men who held the deadly rifles
over them, wholly Urmin6ful of their i'm
pending fate. The brutes had served us
faithfully aid had suffered more than their
ihare Of the hardships of the journey. They
had slept In the snow and shivered In the
wind, had left tail of blood behind then,
from their sore feet, had missed many a
meal and dned half the time on short ra-
tons, But the necessities of arctic work
know 40 such thing as pity where dogs are
concerned, and the rifles cracked one after
another, and the ice was soon strewn with
the bloody corpses of our faithful servitors.
dozen dogs remain, and their fate hangs
in the balance. We have not yet decided
whether we shall take them with us on the
boats or r.erciful1y put an end to their
careers with our Winchesters before en-
barking
The boats being made ready for launch
Ing, 1t was found that 10 room remained
for dogs They couldn't be carried without
ming the boats so full that there would
be no room for any one to stir, and there be-
Ing NJ other way ont of the difficulty il was
with great sorrow we gave the order to
have the remaining dozen shot. If we are
able To reach land to the northeast dozen
OF thase dogs would be OF inestimable value
to us In our sledSing operations there. We
do not say that If We were to organize
another arctic expedition we should employ
cd I'm MI
we would, taking care TO procure very large
and strong dogs and to have them well ac-
customed to the language of the men who
were to work with them.
Two Hours of Hard Work.
We had two hours of hard work this
morning gettirg our beats and sledges
across a half Rile of pressed up ice to the
edge of the water. But the men were so
glad to see the ocean ripping before them
| that they worked as never before and we
had difficulty in restraining their ardor
and preventing them smashing the equip
| ment, so eager were they for the launch
| Ing. The wind died away and the sun
shone with incredible fierceness causing
the men to mop their faces as they worked
| 1t was D o'clock this morning before We
reached the edge of the water with all our
outht and much good it did our hearts to
| see the ocean calm and blue and no ice in
| sight to the eastward. An hour more was
| spent In preparing for the VOYAGE Our
| four aluminium sledSes were dashed to-
| gether in pairs, tandem, two being lowed
after the Parry and two after the Lock-
wood. Before embarking a. number of us
stripped and dived into the sea from the
high ice, greatly to the establishment of a
seal who was swimming about few yards
away.
At ii O'Clock We set sail, and. the wind
dying away, took to our oars This even
ing, after five hours of hard work. and n
day that has been twenty hours long, We
made camp near Cape Platen, every one
wet. TIED and miserable, the weather hay-
ing become Indictment
June S--Our progress today was very
encouraging. We rowed about twelve miles;
in five and a half hours. Only one of the
th:e2 ai"minum beats, the Parry, Leaked
at all, and that very little. Any wooden
beat would have been spintered into kim
cling wood by the rough usage to which our
IEHt metal craft have been subjected Our
aluminium sledges, dashed riyidiy to bam-
boo poles. tandem, took kindly to the water
1t Is almost impossible tC capsiZe them and
their 90 nten!s were perfectly dry Win
any other form of sledge than this IL would
have been impossible FOR us to have male
the boat voyage of today. for the simple.
reason that the boats could not carry all
the load.
At this place, about eight miles northeas ST
of Cape Platen, We camped for the night.
the westerly gale continuing and the ice
closing up to the north and east thus bar
ring our farther progress in the boats 1t
was not very comfortable CAMP but We.
we're glad enough TO eat our hot supper and
crawl into our sleeping bags after the ex-
citenle Mt and dangers of the day
WALTER WELLMAN.