The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-08-11

Ndt n Nlll NlEflN liNu We lfii lNt Nhil
without food. ! sl,ouid have starved 90
death within the fat twelve hours
As 70 WuE. I made myself fairly cont
Portable. and being helpless a. better
r'y condition. lIissed much Of ihe time
In sleep. On the oining Of what was
probably the nth day aw0kc 10 lind
That the Hoe had ceased drifting, and
quarter Of mile east OF me was n
mass 81 ice Of singular creation.
II WAS q milo or more ~ length ana
not over Thirty feet high, aud locked
more Ike wall resting on the wafer
The ice was yellow and dirty, With
rocks imhcdded In Il here and theV.
ana have NJ doubt that good part
~ Il was the lover part " an icr'erg
which lad turned turtle. letwren me
nnd ihc water was u tumble Of lee
over which Il seemed impossible %
make my way; but rs spon as had
broken NY fast ! set ont % try u. II;
took me full hour h. make that quar-
ter of mile. bat NJ length reached
Size wall aud found that could assy
get up Il rough silc. When ! reached
the TOP Il was 90 discover that the
mass ~ lcc WAS almost cube. with
a great hollow In H. surface 90 remind
mo ~ the crater OF q volcano
In the center OF the hollow lay
mass ~ wrrckare. ana after long
stare. half believing that my eyes de-
celyed me. ! slid down ana began an
investigation. No one will over see a
more curious sight 4 space several
hundr'd feet square was covered with
broken masis, yards, beams. planks.
boards, ropes blocks aud sails. Amid
this heap were n thousand belongings
20 ihc Interior of ship. There were
tables, chairs. sofas. crockery. cloth
ing. carpets. rugs aud what not. 4
few articles had not been damaged
but the greater part had been broken
ana splluierd rs u madnan had
used nn AK "a destroy.
There was sort of mlldew covering
everything, aud such articles OF cloth.
ing as ! pulled ~ were quite rotten
A large ship had herr suffered de.
strucilOn Just how. | could not de.
terninc. hut Il seemed 20 me as n q
great body OF Ice had fallen on her ~
she rested la the crater. No other
forces. unless Ruupowder. could have
So wrecked aud scattered her about.
Sallorllke. my first thought was to
identify the wreck. This did by find.
Ing a llfepreserver with the name
Princess painted on Il.
/ had not then heard Of the loss OF
the Australian packet, but knew that
d this must have been passenger ship.
from her fittings. There were no bod.
les under or about the wrecknge. and
during my search OF i've hours / did
not find any money or jewelry. or her
/ cargo. ouly small portion was nj
hand. aud ! did not see a single bale
~ wool The life preserver aud three
/ pieces of silver plate ! carried Ia the
boat. hut found nothing else worth
taking away ! could hnd nothing IN
The wrcckare 10 account f0r the shlp's
boats. and nll hei crew and passcn.
gers had certainly left Der before she
met her fate
The theory 81 whalcm who have
cruiscd iu the Icy seas is that the
P1uress was driven down on The Zee
hy gale from the north which. pee.
hats, dismasird her AZ some time
perhaps before she got into the bee
fields slir was abandoned. anil. one
after another her boats were lost IN
that great ocean II after that she
got wcdgCd among the lee then they
Heated away from her 20 perish OF
culd and starvation one can only
guess how the big ship came 10 De-
living where found her. She may
have leen lifted bodily onto the ico
darling nip 90 have run upon q
shelf og ledge "a she drove bciorc a
gale.
Tho shape aud Size 81 icebergs .,
CONSTANTLY changing This one had
probably lccn much arger aud higher
ai somr time. Thcw might have h,cn
and probably was. high portion.
which fell upon and shattered the YES.
sci 10 i1mcuts. As she had no gun.
powder On board, there could have
been no explosion. In whatever way
hct doom came about. there she was
or nll that was left uf her.
i.nie ln the Afternoon the Zoe BEGAN
90 bwak up and ] got back 90 my boat
liy night there werc lanes of water III
every direction and strong brcczC
set in from the south. I drlfed e. N,
north all that night ard an the next
day. hut as the tccond night came
down ! was picked up by the Scotch
whalcr Jeanette. which had captured
nud was cutting a whale. and month,
later was landed at her home port.
For three years ! believed the Tails
man had been east away In the Ice. hu
u turned out that she escaped without
much damage. and finally r'achcd
Boston with full cargo