The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-24

Ing activity and In throwing off its wiDier
garment of stasnation. Outside. also, f5f
tho last TWO or three days have bean two
Dundee whaiers. forcing a passage
through the frozen masses, as they must
come IN TO get a sealing crew for 1.-The ice"
preparatory TO joining the rest Of the fleet.
Our ship Is a large barge-rigged vessel.
with auxiliary steam which Will carry her
ten knets All hour. But her sails VIII
amply suffice her IA case OF accident. Her
sides. some eighteen inches thick. are
sheati4d and resheathed with greed
heart" Her timhers. OF British oak, are
eeiled inside with beech. and her port
aies. inside, resemble the arrow Sits OF
some medieval castle. Her bow Is double
SsenMcd. a space OF eeNen feet between,
sesId with the choicest hard woods. The
whole ts fronted with a stout column OF
iron "a assist III PATTERNS, the Ice.
Below dacks every corner IS adapted to
some purpose. Large pounds built up for,
sats M the hold, bat are temporarily
adapted for the men TO sleep in. The
''p~its." that Ii. thu fat and the skin to-
gethsr. must be slowed IN pounds, or the
friction caused by rolling win make tire
oil run out and sailing vessels have even
been lost, capsixed by tho shifting weight
OF i,nrr-soned oil Here ara sacks OF hard
biscuits. puncheons OF usalasses. barrels
OF pork ana nour, mems boxes. beats
little room when the crew numbers 81
men. and may be six or eight weeks At
sea. Then there are also 500 tors OF coal
10 stow. food Tor the hungry engine IN her
battle with tbs ice foes. fog If she burns
nine tons day IN water. size burns twenty
tons a day I'm icn
Even on deck yrss Will notice large
pounds OF coat Here. too. are numbers
~ ,roats neatly fitted into one another
from which TO shoot seals IN loose ice:
stacks % poles for flags 20 mark the
hears OF dead and for gsfTs 10 XIII them
with There are huge tanks OF water.
too which will constantly be repienishesi
with lee: for ~ best we can only carry
three days water. Forward Is q huge
deck kitchen. where pork ard ''soushs.'
ere cooked. and tea boiled for the ever re-
eurFzny mug up when work "a plentiful,
II must be partly these glorious dotighs
this unlimited r,sola sses, tic1r. butter pork
sea, dried nsh, seal meat. etc. which
lures 81 many 10 strive Tor hersi1s. For.
monty short allowance al winter. ard
some have hardly known what a good
eauere meal means az all
All Is tha cap aims cabin fitted with
large ard valuable telescopes for Use from
the barrels in srarcsxng for seals Here
also. are the eagtneerg and boasswafn's
cabins w:af sriaf1y rifles and thousands II
s%fNftsiS w H3tIsflfSfTn1. ttGTS EtH also the
two harreiuaan who ssarrh fo= seaie from
the crcw's nest. OF whom 50 gnWch de-
reuis: and the ''ssQuners." or "coansrs.'
who. from IRE toretor or soreharrel
vstch scr leads - water BY which TIRE
saI, may ges thrcsi-es the tce. Two huge
whesls cos;trs the raa6er. ard ~ Is no
suec,gre ssi3s>e steering heavy big shin
through the Narrow Irregular leads. as
again ara again she backs and charles
snrscus'v rushing AZ her tcy zoe. Nay
n1orr. ire steering r. frequent source
O. danger; fer rsoTs than one broken leg
ana many sore blow Asvs e~srnr1,eur7r-
afci the flying or ''ktcktrrs' or fNn
wheel Sc a mass 90 fcs has caught The
rodssr- when ts~ shls - eysnw a-tr~r.
The nse5 us0st steeT, anywhere they, csa.
ans X they want bedding mus, hrsng what
- ksewr Sc 8 "dcnkey's hrsza kfaxss' -h@.
IL. en ssssfis' % straw sn q seeking bag
u -, however. Only when seals are taken
III great quantities. that rial siles>,s, fs,-.
aT$ss from overcrnwsfng Then rial
must Re taken cur ana xsrYaped on s>,k
ana even thrown overheard TO rsaks v~av
Cor aesfs. eat eventually the rner ,s,nse
leave their Ae~ths IN ths had ga go
pounds are filed. a-7s must xlee- any,
where ssay can. Aea and coal ara ri, ava
resss are Snsxes a. lsssse>crfhshie cs.yrsx.~ss.,
ard remain 80 az che veezrd rsa~hss r.,-t
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