Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-10

tide-rip and into the fog-bound harbor
OF Unalaska. The soaring .'.goonies"
that had followed them from Flattery
had dropped astern at first sight Of
the volcanic headlands, and now count
less thousands of sea-parrots fed from
the ships path. squattering away In
comic terror, dragging their fat bodies
across the sea as a boy Hkips a fiat
rock. It had been Captain Peasley's
hope, here at the gateway Of the Misty
Sea, to learn something about the lay
OF the big ice-fioes TO the ~northward,
but he was disappointed, and the local
hunters knew nothing. Forced TO rely
on the luck and his own skill, he
steamed out again the next day, this
time doubling back to the eastward and
laying a cautious course along the Sec
ond leg Of the journey.
Once through the ragged barrier that
separates the North Pacific from her
sister sea. the dank breath Of the
Arctic smote them fairly. The breeze
that waited out from the north brought
with II the chill of limitless ice-felds;
and the first night found them hove
to among the outposts of that shifting
desert of death which debouches out
of Behring Straits with the first ap-
proach OF autumn. to retreat again only
at the coming of reluctant summer.
From the crows nest the lookout stared
| down Upon a white expanse that
s fetched beyond the horizon At dawn
they began their careful search, feel
ing their way eastward through the
open lanes and tortuous passages that
separated the foes. now laying-to for
the northward set of the fields to clear
a path before them, now stealing
through some narrow lead that opened
into freer waters.
The Bedford Castle was a steel hull
whose sides, opposed to the Jaws OF
the ponderous masses, would lave been
crushed like an eggshell in a wise
Unlike a wooden ship, the gentlest
contact would have sprung her plates,
while any considerable collision would
have pierced her as If she had been
built OF paper. Approaching to the
full the peril OF his slow advance, Cap
tain Peasley did all the navigating In
person: but eventually they were
hemned IN so closely that for a day
and a night they could do nothing but
drift with the pack. In time, however,
the winds opened a crevice through
/ which they retreated to follow the
outer limits farther eastward, until
thew were baked again.
Opposed to them were the forces of
nature, and they were wholly depend
ent upon her tickle favor. 1t might be
a day, a week. a month before she
would let them through, and, even
when the barrier began to yield, an
other ship, a league distant, might
profit by an opening which to them
was barred. For q long. dull period the
ynyagers lay as helpless as If in dry
dock, while wandering herds Of seals
barked al them or bands OF walruses
ceased their fishing n crept out upou
the ice-pans to observe these invaders
of their peace. When an opportunity
at last presented itself, they threaded
their way southwark, there TO try an
other approach, and another. and an
other. until the first of May had come
and gone, leaving them blu little closer
to their goal than when they first
hove-to. Late one evening they dis
covered smoke on the horizon. and the
next mornings light showed a three
masted steamship fast in the ice, a few
miles to the westward.
That's the Juliet" Big George in
formed his companions. 'one of the
| North American Packers Association
tenders"
'She was loading when we left Seat
tie." Boyd remarked.
at is Willis Marsh's ship, so he must
be aboard" supplemented Cherry.
rShe's a wooden ship, and built for this
business. If we don't look out he'll
beat us In, after ALL"
what good will that do him?" Clyde
questioned. The FISH don't bite-I
mean run-for sixty days yet"
Emerson and Bait merely shrugged.
To Cherry Malotte this had been a
voyage of dreams; for once away from
land. Boyd had become his real self
~agsin-that genial, irrsprsssibIs self