Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-12
BURIED IN ICE.

was second mate of the Golden Vanity
on her first voyage to the Australian col
onies. We wero lying at the railway pier
ut Williamstown, Port Phillip, when a
widow came on board to select a cabin, as
she intended taking passage in our vessel.
The steward was ashore. So the chief off
Ger delegated me to do the honors for our
visitor, Mrs. Beaumont, by whom l was
fascinated and with whom fell in love in
a short time after we sailed.
When we had been out a few weeks, the
vessel took fire at night, and we had to
take to the boats, Mrs. Beaumont going
with the captains party. AS she was GO
ing l caught her in my arms and printed
one burning kiss upon her lips. "God
bless and preserve you, d%arling!" was all
l uttered as Captain Lomax drew her aft.
The boats were all lowered in safety,
and soon afterward the Golden Vanity
threw up one heaven vending jet of fame,
more brilliant than before, and sank a
holocaust beneath the troubled ocean.
Fortunately the weather was fine, though
it was bitterly cold. A compass, chro-
nometer and sextant were in the longboat,
hIu liz ohIPDtl III W hCOp OlOSO
together and follow in his wake. This or,
der I endeayored to obey to the best of my
ability, but during the following night a
fresh gale sprang up, and when morning
dawned the other boats were nowhere to
be seen. There we lay, hundreds of miles
from land, with the vast wide waste of
waters around us and the pale blue sky
for a canopy. Our spirits sank below the
zero hope when, to our dislnay, we found
we were separated from our friends; the
bulk of the stores were in their boats, and
we had scarcely food and water, even
though sparingly eked out, to last q week.
Anxiously for days and weary nights we
scanned the distant horizon for some YES
sci. Disappointment and exposure told
severely Upon us, and men glared now
with eager, ferocious eyes on one another,
speaking with bated breath.
On the morning of the sixth day we
found ourselves standing right into a bay
which was formed by a crescent shaped
iceberg. The glorious rising sun flooded q
stream of golden light upon the jeweled
ice peaks of the mighty berg and tinted
the foaming waves which dashed high up
it's base with %prismatic %colors, but we had
no eyes for scenic beauty-we only saw
our chance of rescue diminished.
Numbed by the biting wind and worn
by %privation, now all hope seemed gone,
and many of our number wished to end
their misery at once.
"Stave in the boat and let us die like
men," hoarsely growled a rough bearded
man, rising with a boathook.
l grasped him by the throat and pinion-
ed him to the thwart.
"Be a man, you hound, and live for
others, If not for YOURSELF l cried.
The ferocious CLEAN in his eyes changed,
and he wept.
God help us! Yes! l forgot myself.
Ills past now" he answered gently.
We turned a point of the iceberg and
entered "a small cove to leeward, hoping
to find a dead seal. The water here was
still as a mill pond, and Oh a plateau we
saw a large white bear.
"Hurrah, my lads, a chance for us yeti
We must have that fellow at any costl' !
shouted c~ncouragingly as / directed tho
boats head toward a large foe that jutted
from the least precipitous part of the berg
We armed ourselves with stanchions,
boathooks and oars, landed and started in
pursuit. Inc iiooie ahllnai niauo d s'n .iNa
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changed his purpose, and he fled precipi-
lately. Along the plateau, up ice crags
and glaciers, across crevasses and chasms,
he bounded, but we followed, thirsting
for his blood. He came again to bay, and
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