Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-07

icy grave efficient breathing kept open and the
wind strong enough off the weight of dangerous
drift lesson thus learned fighting the battle OF lite
which afterward useful
Several days icy despair followed each other in rapid
succession The wind did the full force of Storm
strong cold travel The food supply
notceaby decreasing The daily advance reduced With
such weather starvation seemed inevitable.
Camp nearly every day. ambition sank the
ebb atmospheric added the instability
of broken ice and the depressing position
had possible location
could only be guessed
The addenng struggle was daily forced spirits
the of extinction Now that the object of
trip had accomplished of the incentive gone
At fe's had been accomplished,
lain sleep would have
the feeble fires of the homing passion kept the
AT THE E1GHTYFoURTH PARALLEL.
On May sky cleared long enough give Of
observations We the eghtyourth parallel the
seventh meridian The lands hidden behind
low The much crevassed and fted eastward Many
of by patches
sky.
pack sufficiently give
ety though lines and did the time
ously impede progress.
There remained the seds scarcely
averaged fifteen miles daily On the
the pole had only able make twelve miles daily
Now strength under fair conditions did be
equal than miles The outlook far from hopeful
though sight sky courage
into Etukhishuk Ahwelah.
Trying make straight
for the musk lands of the inner crossing.
At eghty-thrd parallel
large extending southwark The changed
The persistent
heavens
With few lines paper register the life suffering,
food for and dog reduced ration while
the difficulties of ice travel disheartenng heights.
At the end of struggle of twenty days through thick fog the
sky cleared and found ourselves far down in Crown PRINCE
Gustav with and impossible small ice barrier
between and Heberg Island.
the
westerly drift only alternative go south with the
We hoped in this find game for food fuel The
Scottish walers Leopold
The distance this point shorter than that Greenland
by this hoped that could Europe during
year. 1908.
Passing through Hasse between the Rhymes Lands
bears and seals secured and slowly moved southwark
Norwegian bay Wellington channel The SMALL
there much and slow but the
carried us along.
CROSSED TO JONES SOUND
At Pioneer bay were stopped by jam of small ice
which shedding impossible Unable wait for the ice
because large here secured crossed
July Jones sound Here again big found There
much the folding spread
Unable dogs, they given
wild progenitors the wolves.
sled left here, other apart placed
Then followed long perious by
during which expended Sc.
curing birds for food After that Topped lines sngshos
birds still captured
Early in September Bafn bay
with neither food fuel ammunition New implements
shaped and Cape Spabo
pitch a winter camp.
underground stones bones and TURF and
with primitive fought the walrus the bear,
food skins were Sc
cured and death by famine averted
The and the night preparing
food and equipment for the
On February 49, 1902 remodeed sled AMI
Annootok the Here met
Mr. Harry Whitney and told him of conquest pole
Because ship after Mr. Whitney hia
my intrusted to
southwark
there onward Copenhagen by Danish steamers.
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