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therefore be avoided; but from April till Octo-
Der the Grand Banks almost always yelled
in fog and it is then that the menace of these
ghostly wanderers most Expresses liner captains
and mariners generally. Only the vigilance now
enforced the greyhounds prevents terrible
sent to the bottom every year from this cause.
The Arizona in 1879, then the queen of the flyers,
ing large iceberg off Cape Race in November when
most shipmasters thought the ocean was at last
free of these pests But now that the United States
photographic Office has taken to recording all
the reports about these pallid wayfarers of the
waters, it is known that they to be found there
every week of the year The Arizona put into St.
way to New York after taking two hundred tons of
ice out of her forepeak, where it had forced itself in
the collision.
Some Berg Tragedies
TEN years previously, in August, the steamer
Vcksburg was sunk by collision with berg in
and in 1868 the Canadian was also sent to bottom
by one, with loss of forty-fve persons. The next
July an emigrant vessel from Ireland to Montreal
persisted there by ram1nng berg and of one hun
dred and sxty-two persons aboard only four es-
capped. Another terrible tragedy occurred in May,
1897, when the French fishing schooner Valiant
plu1Hpeu luIO q HOZSH Wall Oh tHe DdIlkS, anu
seventy persisted, four survivors out of twelve who
got away in two boats, barely being able to keep
themselves alive, they being adrift six days and
nights without food or water, and suffering dread
fully from frost burn because of being unsheltered
and only partly clad.
Newfoundland mariners always the alert
for bergs, because they absent from these
waters, and the vigilance and expertness of
the hardy fsherfok do not prevent many fatality
The bark Nellie left St. Johns one May morning two
years ago, and before nightfa1l the two solitary
vivors of her crew of ten were back again, having
been picked off spar by fishing smack, the vessel
and the other eight having gone to bottom through
the ship fitting against berg in a sodden fog The
schooner Albatross, with of twenty-five seal
men, never heard of after she sailed in March,
1903 and the general impression is that she struck
berg and went down. In April, 1904, the steamer
Grand Lake, while engaged in the seal fishery with
two hundred men aboard rammed a big berg
the Banks and narrowly escaped laundering, getting
back to St. Johns with all her busy occupied
pumping and bang her out. A like mishap befell
the Newfoundland which was engaged in the same
hunt, in April, 1885, and her plight was even worse
for her sides crushed by foe she tried to
escape and she reached port in almost sinking
condition.
Strength of the F1oes
SOMETIMES even these stanch and specially
~ built vessels unable to withstand the
tact with foes or bergs, and within the last ten
years the Wolf, of the finest of her class afoat
the Hope, which had envable record in Arctic
exploration; the Mastiff, which had been built
originally by the British Admiralty for northern
work; the Reso1ute, one-time Scotch whaler; and
the Eot-all succumbed to the terrible forces which