The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-03-21
FISH IN THE ARCTIC.

Va Akpnl or prhcm Encountered Iso-
S'@tiy III Dehring Sea.
S% Hceontly returned salmon fish
ers, Tflers and sealcrs from the Arc
TIC VI of n strange thing--an occur
rencf tithout a parallel in the expert
enceH those who sailed to the fn1.
nortHE lays the San Francisco Chron-
Weaptain who was q passenger on
the hon schooner Glenn tells the
STORM Eth much circumstance. The
Glen H-hfft the city in March last,
Doul1 for Bchring sea, which was
reacfRN May 4. In the latter month
tnerph Is usually little drift ice. but
seid4Rm enough to interfere materially
with the progress of the many whalcrs,
seal9kS and other craft which mako for
the tea ut that time of tho year. This
sehSsPn, however, the sea was literally
cove,le9 with drift loo, extending from
the yAlhslzan peninsula clear across
nortllw5erd to the Yukon. Tho south
WesawHuds usually blow off shore, and
drivi,cH ,he Toe further from the land
Ieavf. a3 'assage between Ice and land.
Inc IN intended to mako Bristol
Day H. tstood to the eastward, but was
unaEeiel reach 1t on account OF tho
ice' 'f'eJLo had to put back toward the
pehnG to await tho delayed south
1t vi while tho Glenn and four
oChe Used up toward Bristol bay
~, uma' phenomenon was encountered.
Inc P. 5el had just emerged from
ounlE pass, about half way between
An' baa.4ta island and Bristol bay,
"heln vast quantity of dead fish were
nco4untercd. They were in the water
us la as the eye could see on each side
OF ic vessel, and for sixty miles the
GlcnEn Travelled through the shoals of
fish. !
YIN examination they proved TO be
silVcSr Jake, kind of Goldfish, but mar
ow'HT and smaller. and having only
'"o 1rsal and ono anal fin. They
WEIGH Il between four and five pounds,
ana Hv re perfectly fresh, the gills be-
my . rcd. Some of the sailors wcrc
uir'' @ eat them, thinking they had
Pein been killed by some subtcrra-
mean IN Pheaval or, possibly, through
Inc " kr1low from the volcano of
Wehyaifnnor, which was active last
1ali. o1hcr sailors, less fastidious, did
noC hcsi tate to cut the flesh open, and
tnen Peculiar condition was revealed.
Althouah the fish were fresh and had
not still!cncd, the gills and intestines
were 1tPund to be full of ice. This
was not the case in one instance, but
WIN oV Ery fish which was opened, and
accounted for thoir snddo,,
suDterrlanean uphcaval
Inc fnomalous condition of the flesh
was th9 subject of much talk and spec
uiatioi1 That the fish should be com
parat'lcly timber and that there should
oe ice within them seemed to Indicate
that a {shoal of them had been sudden
y oveiiItaken and frozen to death, and
Oh inc thnwing out of the ice tho car
cu9seS had been released, but had not
risen I'm temperature sufficiently to
NAV put the Ice in their bodies. Those
oi Uhel sailors who cooked the fish said
thas They tasted rs good as over, and
nut 9hey were not tainted by sulphur,
lS Ind might have been in their death
bcine5 due to n Sudden s,,htor,.or,aa,,
uphe; wal.
1hi4 area of the frozen fish was not
less ban half q mile wide and sixty
,nllesH long. When tho Glenn on its
CONGREGATIONAL journey reached
GUM lak pass again, August 20, every
sign the fish had disappeared Many
iiau %'Dubtless been eaten by the gulls
ana z her birds, and others had sunk
IN thsS warm water.