The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-04-15

| afterward placed it. It was useless to try to
get nearer as there was no cover, and fired
at the bull and could see he was hit by the way
he staggered as he jumped up and tried to run
The cow jumped up also and stood still, broad
side on and when I fired at her I could hear
the bullet strike very plainly. Though it did
not knock her down, she seemed unable to run,
and another shot put her out of her misery.
While still at this pond the two Eskimo hunt
ers with whom Whitney started out chased a
cow and calf on the run right past us. hit the
COW in the side at the third shot and the calf
stopped and was killed by one Of the Eskimo.
We now had six caribou fair supply OF
meat-and two extra men to help carry it in,
as the other party had had no luck So left
them to bring in what they could and started
for camp alone. On the way killed the biggest
bull Of all He was alone on hillside and I
got within range without much difficulty. Whit
ney was in camp and said he had seen no Carl.
bou and Norton came in couple of hours later,
tired and disguised, having shot calf.
Our second attempt at walrus hunting in
Whale sound was practically failure, the
weather being unfavorable. The Erik was head
ed for Etah, where we found the Roosevelt At
Etah the shore rises abruptly on both sides of
the harbor and the sharp rocky hills were dot
ted with Arctic hares. They are white with
blacktipped ears all the year around and have
extremely l5ag and powerful hind legs, often.
distances. They were very shy when we ar
rived, having been hunted for scE1e days by
men from the Roosevelt.
During the ten days spent at EtaI the hoose-
welt was making ready for her dash northward
The two ships dashed together, transferred sup
plies, coal and the vilesmelling whale meat,
which we had carried for SO long aboard che
Erik Coal and provisions were landed and the
day before the Roosevelt sailed was speat In
transferring some ESQ dogs from an Island
where they had been put ashore to the Roose
velts deck.
Early in the afternoon of the eighteenth af
August the Roosevelt showed by signal that she
was ready to start north. At the time the Erik
was tied to the rocks, landing coal, and ths
Roosevelt was anchored further up the bay The
captain, Norton, Whitney and / rowed over to
her and Commander Peary Invited us into his
cabin, where we drank glass Of brandy to the
health Of all on board and to the success of the
expedition, shook hands with everyone we could
find amid the hustle and preparation of starting.
and rowed back to the Erik. Whitney had de-
cided to winter at Etahe and we left him there
on the tWenty-first, drtHsping him astern In his
roWboat about an hours run out.
Here we weTs homeWard bound and not a
sight had we ha& of the greatest and most de- /
sired arctic sxme the white bear 1t was near
~ month later before we did see one We
killed few. more walrus, arctic hares and /
birds on ou1 way south, visited the Greenland
Danish settlements at Upernavik Disco and I
Holstenberg and crossed Davis strait, striking
he coast on the west side near the mouth OF
Cumberland gulf.
On the twenty-second of September, of the
Labrador coast we ran into an iceberg the
shock breaking open the old Erik pretty wei
back to the pavement. Fortunately the damage
vas about two feet above the water line very
ortunately as none of the boats happened to
'e III a condition that would permit quick
aunching. The crash came about eight o'clock
N a bright, starlight evening, with the northern
lights shifting across the sky and probably blot
ing out the berg until 1t was too late to escape
ollision. This accident seemed to take the life
light out OF the old ship, though she had with
TODD SO many dangers in the past, and it was
crippled old Erik with a badly smashed nose
bat finally drors@d anchor In Brigus harbor.