The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15
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AS he took it up in his hands and laid
II upon my arms, / saw that ii actually
was baby-or had been. But 1t was an
unpleasant sight; its wizened face drawn
with suffering.
Yes" said Capt Fitch, as if reading
my thoughts, they had a hard time of
it. Twenty of EN- we have in the draw
ers around this galley. We know by this
little iron chain which clasps the mantle
that this was the captain; but this" he
continued, opening another drawer, and
exhibiting another midget face, was the
last survivor. He was an ancient viking
OF some learning and he IL was who wrote
upon the mast in Runic characters the
story of their voyage. their distress, and
their extinction. He says that he was
about seventy when the ship drifted into
these parts and began to go round in the
Whirlpool, while the rest were much
younger; and, of course, they grew small
or and smaller and persisted first. There
seems to have been no solid ice here at
that time; but there was a great mael-
strom here, directly at the pole filled with
floating ice, and the ship was drawn into
knew what was the matter with them.
AS they had to float round the pole con-
stantly with the sun, they could not try
any experiments, such as we tried on the
solid ice before we had been here a week,
They swung helplessly round and round,
and kept getting younger and younger,
but knew not why Jim Rui as this man
called himself, began to suspect when the
rest became little children what the mat
ter was, and wrote on the mast in his
strange letters, Doomed! We are run
ming down the sum- He records that he
kept his companions alive by feeding
them long after they became perfectly
helpless from extreme infancy. But he
added, L too am falling into the green
and tender leaf. AS TO his end we are
left to inference but assume that he also
died of hamilton"
"A strengthening child said, hand
pack the little old man, whose eyes fol-
lowed me as if he We're alive.
Yes; the ladies have taken a great
interest in him." said Fitch. When we
made this discovery, which was not I'M
til after So-Kuok and I had been back
used to take him out every day and run
around the pole against the sun trying
TO make his grow older. But it was
no use. They grew older themselves, but
he did not recover the vital spark. He
was a goner."
=. What do you suppose the little folks
lived on? Is it unknown"
20, yes" he said. Jim Rui wrote out
the story on the mast. Wild animals
from the whole Arctic region were at
tracted upon the broken ice by the curious
whirling with the sun. They, too, kept
growing younger and younger; and when
they were young and tender the crew
caught them and used them for food
AT last the venerable infants got too
young to capture any, and then they seem
to have shut themselves up in the galley
It kept showing faster and faster. ana
Ireezing harder and harder, till at last
probably 10000 years ago, and some cen.
turtles after all had perished-the great
Palaeocrystic sea became solidly congeal-
ed, and revolved only with the earth
Great numbers of animals had assembled
in the snow at this point, having Yielded
to the centripete influences and their
carcasses We're frozen up solid So this
Ice under our feet and around this wreck
for miles, is vast refrigerator full OF
fresh meat. Some of il had been dead
for thousands of years. vet It Is Just a
good as ever. We often find these savorv
castaways, and turn them to good ac-
count-thOugh we generally prefer the ar
uheial fiavors. We even find fresh flow
ers.
WHAT I exclaimed. Flowers in this
boreal region?"
Certainly" he laughed. THE first
Christmas we spent here
Il noticed that fine spike OF lilac bios
sons ] remarked.
Con on, or you'll lose your dlnnerp.
shouted he.
The voice startled me, for II suddenly
seemed as II n We're not his voice. ana
] perceived that the hand was nos Ms
which was laid lightly on my shoulder
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was an extensive wholesale cigar and ~
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wealth 4 committed a. y. f..I ~ 80 -"