New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-06

lust then we saw her burst through the door O her
cabin. bare footed, halt dressed. her HAIR yInS
free the dog behind her karstOn crept toward her
as she hung to the sides of the cabins but the ship
gave a 1urch, a came swapping over anldsh1ps;
and-bv the eternal! when 1t cleared she was gone
The Mistassi1li was twisted and resting on
her beam ends-the deck like the wall OF a
house That freaksh blue light began to light up
the skies-must have been a reflection from an
aurora 1t made US look like month dead We
saw something shine like phosphorus against the
dark rake of the hills the face OF the Moosehead
cliff Then. wonderful to tell, score OF big half
drowned steers came swimming and champrng out
OF the wide matches grim and black devils in that
graveyard glare with bloody rolling eyes and sharp
horns laundering and sliding down the decks on all
fours into the sea. They threshed and te"CN9( n
the water There were more than two hundred ii
the hold that beloved too-fOr a time
-. Look, Look! yelled Karston and made Jump
into the
There in the tiicker'-2e, that horrible witch light
we saw her afoat r1gnt IN thick OF the crazy cat
tie clinging to OF the matches that had washed
overboafd flung her a rope; but it fell short. and
the next moment saw her catch steer by the horns
and hold Oh ike death. We saw woman and steer
driving toward the shore the beasts crowdng round
her And so they loated off in the sudden darkness
Then we pulled karSton aboard. crying like babe
And She lived through all that: l exclaimed
turning incredulous face to the Captain.
You've seen her living body in the flesh. haven
YOU he asked, ewing me aslant, and then went on
We stuck like rats to the tOredeCk OF the Mis-
tassin expecting her to slip of the rocks at any
moment to 90 to pieces under the push OF the
sWelS One of the deck boats was still above water
and when the darkness lifted toward morning We
rghted this and made for the nearby land Wee
cleared the old steamer by scarce cables length
when she began to Slip into the sea by Jerks
The currents will drag her off or break her up
said karston. drag her down like the blessed saint
of a woman that gone!
And that's the last of the Hudson Bay Com
panys money! | said. Fifty thousand in Canadian
notes to plaster the banks of Newfoundland,
T AKSOTOVA ISLAND was like piece OF refuse
- land of inferno miles of cold. tunbled
stone stretching i'll the mist and mountains OF
volcanic ash with few pInched shrubs and trees and
a brook of sulphur water that trlCkhng down
to the rocky beach from the heart of half dead vol
cano, in a bed as white salt Right over our heads
we saw the cliff of the MooSehead lifting white a
skull a mooses skull We pulled the boat up in that
fiendS dawn We looked back at the MStaSsni
her fore and mainmast standing short and slant
out of the There were three drowned hulloCkS
the beach.
There marOOned with IuVak over
hundred miles to the west and no likelihood of craft
passing in those parts unless the DunOttar Castle
CHANGED to make a to Tuvak with load of coal
We hungry She wolves and tired stones
but there nothing but the rocks for our beds and
the steers for food, and the birthstone water for
drink. We cut up the dead animals: roasted some
of the flesh. and smoked the rest. At night
the borealis fire in the north blazing. curling
banners of colored flame and redhot streaks in the
SKY. Id heard tales of a queer tribe of Indians
the island and stories Of cattle small shaggy cattle
like the Highland breed: but there a sign