The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-13

& We cleaned o1- bcflsrx preparatory Tor
'fiss northern t-sa, flied np wi.a wafer AMI
aeft Port Ciarenee at Il % D. M. 90 3rfy u
TpsEsx. noru.-.x after leaving Ps-r
Clarence ws stapDs9 at cape Prince Of
Wales for al hour CT 80. and then went
into tae Arctic ocean. II was a bsaucful
day, almost calm. ard tbs heat was really
Uncomfortable. Il seemed as much Ike
.csuix.ng +. he casssssza~ sea - Ia tns
Arctic oosaa. There was strong current
setting to tbs nortArars. but foi!awsEg
.sne coast line TINS, current had cleared
.eu. All the iee-:soHs thas carsof the oesan-
Ia Katzasyue sound 1 saw Gle little cluster
II ice cakes lett iehiod In the genera. exc
.dus We saw ne ice worfa mentioning I'm
III We reached Cape Lls5arrs. twenty-five
miles Korts Of Posnt Hope and I'd ice TO
.bothez vs. zasg ws anchored behind Blos-
som shoals at Icy cape. On July IL We got
to CAPE Blossom in KoszsDtss s2un9. There
Es found rhs Guardian. Northern Light,
Leslie u. ard several little schooners. ap-
parensIy hardly sarge enough 20 navigate
Ban Francisco b4y Yet these nt.3s fellows
had tie cheek 20 start from California and
WssaaIxton ports 20 CONE away up here
And .fssy got here. TOO. which makes their
presumption eth worse.
Hopeful Miners without Gold.
Z These vessels had been here aimee July
= and many men hae gone Up tas river
Eussfse main body Of miners we're waiting
Tor the river steamers. four in number.
that were 20 be towed Up by sailing ves-
49, Everybody vas tubilant and hope
fuL There had been no gold ia evidence.
HE natives had no nuggets. 30 gold dust.
The missionaries had not seen any. Bu.
the miners were confident Of success just
tbs same The Lord is sala 10 pay par
t.cular attention 10 people like these. who
will gsar. out on such an expedition with
nothing to &c or but the shadow Of a ru-
NOR, Before leaving Seattle one man, a
doctor Of medicine, wrote. asking ne about
the truth Of the stories about kotzeoae
SOUND aid the probabilities Of success
there. answered that every story had
heard 50 far and had been able 70 s..t
down was false: that the officers Of the
Hear had not located claims there. and
Capt. futile had rot gruh<taked native
b hunt for gold. told him that TIE III
snors OF gold snanatsd from the whaiers.
Isuppess he was lot acquainted With any
th@lers, because he came up aere Ia spite
Of that statement.
H.. Natives welcome TiIton.
Going into Cape Blossom We passed the
Louisa D. and Willard A.nsworth. We
Mt that night and found TIE Catherine
eudten and j. Falkenberg. each with a
little stsrn-wheet steamer in tow, anchored
In6er Cape KruzeEs;erns They had been
Arrsed by the current TO the northward,
mast the entrance 10 the Sound. At Cape
Blossom We found M. Tilton. who
brought the FIST news down from
PUNT Harrow last winter. lie Is the
chief mate Of the Northern Light. We had
"a board TIE Bear Tlckey and his wife.
the Point Hope natives Who guided him to
81. Michael. Tyiton came over 10 see his
ixatlvea and they went almost wild IN their
dss.sht at seeing hi,n again.
Ne picked up these natives from the
Bonanza at Port Clarence. They had come
from San Francisco on her They dec.ar-
At honis all they had seen. BECAUSE the
Point Hope natives can stand only a rea-
sorab.e amount Of lying. What s,ruck
them more forc:by than anything else vas
shooting the chutes." They were strut
ting around On the ship In Frisco clothes
began 20 ''shuck" them and come ora, In
THAR skin clothing
We reached potnt Hope on the evening
Of july II and the two natives went ashore
II transp!red later that somebody at Por,
Clarence had given them a bottle OF
whssky with Instructions not ~ drink II
white on the Bear. but the moment they
touched tho beach. Mr.. and Mira T4ckey
got glortousy drunk TO the envy CT their
adfur.ng naaghoors
DerthoIf boards the ship.
Lieut., Il. L. Bertholf came on board lie
was In excellent health and declared tina,
he had passed pleasant winter The only
thing that troubled him" seriously In his
long sled trip sas the Ioor fare that lie
had In many places This extreme cold WAS
noEso d.sagreeahie because & was always
eafln ~Aea tAa thermometer went away
down. bui the Billiards wlsh ;hasr u,o<Isr-
aiSly low temperature wey. decidedly un
comfortable Begthelg has made mere
progress IN learning she language than any
tos'y Rave sess' ~Ao has speut such a
ss~ort time n The country. He waa Just
beginning 20 SCI AZ tie true language %
,ha. natives. however. lie sayx that they
'aik 10 the white nlsn In language luko
our pigeon rnsllsh. lie mastered thA, al
rtghs aaa Vas beginning - set a, some
q IL modes and lenses when yss arrived.
Ice in the Arctic.
ws ier Tr'sat Uope a. "a p. m. JAY
L. a; = = N. oG cape lAso;,rne se
ssasei Ice fer ;hs atst uao ssr,ce June
in u BerEg soa- ,sa Ju.y Is we steamed
,hrvcgb lsh5 scattering ice. pretty well
so.frs!gs ~ tAs. Est,fy warm xsa.hs~ 10