The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-06-02
THE Field on ADVENTURE,
rHpYLLINa INCIDENTS AND nAe@
ING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA
Adrlft on lee in the Open Sea-
lowed by Sawfish-The CON
gresham and the Bear.

l. of Carl Schultz's troupe OF
Great Danes, now on exhibit
ton at tho Hagan, says the st.
Louis Republic, claims to be tho only
full FLOODED Eskimo at present in the
United States. His adventures since
leaving his native country nearly five
years ago, against his will and per-
sonal inclination, read like an Arabian
Nights story.
Macher was born nearly forty years
ago at Davis Inlet, British posses.
sion lying considerably north OF
Labrador, and spent the first thirty
years Of his life at that place. He
then secured the British contract for
carrying the mail from Riglets to
Alexandria, distance of seventy-one
miles. Riglets is situated in the north
ern part of Labrador. 1t consumed
a weeks time to make the round trip,
which was made with dogs and sled.
In the central portion OF the terri
| tory is body of water called Hunters
Bay. nearly four miles wide. To save
detour of eight or ten miles, Macher
always crossed this bay, which was
frozen the year round to such an ex-
tent as to admit of traffic, although it
was at times attended, during the
summer months, with perilous incl
dents, of which fact, Macher was well
aware,
On one OF his trips, about four years
ago, in the latter part of May, as he
approached the bank of the bay, he
heard a grinding noise, sound that
generally precedes the breaking up of
the ice. Macher at first hesitated about
driving over the water, but being a
little behind time, he finally concluded
10 risk it. The rest of the story is
best told in his own words:
"When l reached the centre of the
bay I heard several sharp noises that
resembled pistol reports. Fully real
izing my predicament, threw myself
on my sled Il was at the time walking
beside it), and whipped up my dogs
An instant later crevice formed in
the ice and had barely time to roll
off the sled when both it and the dogs
went under. I got up and staggered
back, when o dizzy feeling came over
me and fell in faint. When l re-
covered consciousness, about, | sup
pose, two hours later, [ was floating
southwark on a large foe Of ice. The
water around me was filled with ice
1oes, and l think if 1 had tried,
could, by dexterously jumping from
one foe to the other, have succeeded
in reaching the shore. But | was in a
dazed condition and soon afterwerd
again relapsed into Inconsistencies.
az did not recover until the next
morning. When 1 looked around no
and was to be seen. / think that l
must have been fully twenty miles
rom the shore. The foe l was on was
about the largest l had ever seen. but
[ knew at best it could not last over
three days. If were not picked up
N that time my doom was sealed. l
thought. and for the time 1 forgot
hat had had nothing to eat for the
preceding twenty-four hours. de.
.ermined, however, TO make the best
If it, and all that day scanned the
horizon for the approach of relief.
But none came the night passed away,
IS did the succeeding day.
"The following night heard the ice
on the edge and knew it was
tut the beginning of the end. l closed t
ny eyes, hoping to be asleep when the s
inal crash came. But sleep came not.
During the entire night could hear I
he ice cracking as if it were sounding 6
ny death knell. With tho approach {
# day l again began to hope. l I
7atched all morning for vessel, but t
n vain, and | gave myself up as lost.
'ut about O'clock in tho afternoon
was sighted by an American trading
essel, picked up and carried to New 7
'ork. Relief came none too soon, for !
had not been on board fifteen minutes :
efore the ice broke with terrific !
RASH" g