The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-19

since December % Clear enough to
make out Anlak Island. Foxes came
alongside during night, making terrible
noise. Ice is back again.
January 13-Wind southwest; clear.
Toothacne.
The condition of the weather constitutes
the substance of the record for several
days 1t goes on:
but got played out when about a hundred
yards from the beach Had to sit down
five or six times to rest on my way PACK.
I am too weak. 1 have been suffering
from rheumatism, but never thouShC
had lost so much strength.
January 20-Legs swell up.
January 21-Legs the same,
January 2S-Legs swell up ,t to m; my f9lips :;
Scurvy
January 24-Legs the same.
January S9-Arm as,n swell da up do too during
night, but as soon as start to move
about it is the same again. l have still
a little hope left, but very little. don't
cause they think 1 am safe in Mozovia.
but the winter came a few weeks too
early. If it was not for the snow l would
try once more to get away, but IN the
a mile. Then I can hardly lift my legs
high enough to get out of the hold with
piece of firewood.
Asks Help or Death.
January 3O-Ice starts to go off beach.
hope this wind will last for while as
the sooner the ice goes the more hope IS
there that 1 get away. Nobody will be-
lieve how l long for fresh provisions. l
still have good appetite, but my stom-
ach will not digest food
January 31-Ice goes out of bay. Health
February IL never expected to see
this day. If can hold out till April l,
1 think 1 could get away. Hope. That is
all have left Wind southwest Squally,
snow and rain.
February 3-Feet swell; cannot get boots
February 4-Chest and belly swollen.
I can't make out what it is.
February 15-I am so weak on my legs
I can hardly get across the galley:
don't know what the captain thinks
about my not showing up. Do they think
/ am going to wait until strawberry time
or that 1 am in Mozovia Bay running
up bill? If was healthy would have
been somewhere else. My teeth start to
get sore in my mouth, and if 1 don't have
help L will lose them in few days Bay
is open for steamer, even for schooner.
L don't get any pain but have, lost my
appetite through the foul breath whicn
there would come help or I had done
with this world forever. The galleys leak
so terrible; SO soon it starts to rain eV-
erything is wet and cannot get II dry
February 16-Using snow for water:
Cannot leave schooner. Help is what
need and fresh provisions:
February III can get aft no more.
I do not know what am going to do for
water when the snow leaves the deck.
No fire in stove for three days: Every
thing is damp. When 1 cook have to
cook for four or five days at a time. All
I can cook is dried apples, and then put
so much flour on until get it like plum
pudding when cold am very dirty IN
face, but that little snow I have left I
use for cooking. There is hardly snow any
more; it is mostly rain. hope 1t will
end soon. I don't think there will come
any help, SO sooner the better. This Is
only struggle with the last breath.
February 1S-Wind northwest.
February 19-One month since laid up
with this schooner. Life is sweet, but
death is sweeter in case like this. I
have nothing but cold scraps and snow
water. Today 1 ate some dried apples
and a piece Of ice. I can make no more
fire, as I can't stay up that long.
February 20 am waiting for my
death.
And then in pencil, family traced OPP
posite the entries of February and 4:
''Death at last. Four months alone.