The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-04-04

nNder fO0f fnrGH1 Ns 70 re1rfHt nuIlF1tE.
with graves; anxiety for our comp1niunS
MY fears wer" confirmed when Wilson.
WHO had Travelled out over land. report
cd having Syun with glasses ponies "driiI
on sea lee An hour later cream Was
s"on approaching and learning his news
oats. Cream and ! set or Immediately to
trst Working around tn" bay "" APP
preached IL" barrier edge. aud At = y m.
rs good forum" discovered IL" missing
party on "a pack which had been drifting
SLOWLY northwest and had Temporarily
stopped owing "a III" swell suh7ldrE
Save One Pony.
with alpine ropes the men w"f" r"s-
cuod with difficulty WORKING on
through III" night "" succeeded tn saw
Eng tho alalGrs and their loads, but could
do nothing for tn ponies which Wy"
only thirty yards away. At I q. N. n"
pack began tn move again. w" l"il IN"
ponies with full nos" bags ana rested
iii 6 q. m. when tho pack was again
stationary. We marched north, found
tho ponies and mad" dcsp"rai" efforts
to gave them Bowers and oates risE"t
u long d"tour OYER the pack nnd LED the
animals over many Jumps Will" the re-
maiuAhr Of Us dug trench 10 the lower
rart ~ the barrier The edges OF N"
foes were high HpoN" water Hud very
uneven. Killer whales hung about with
IN = few wards tn" ponies ialinE at
thu lump wor' irrntricyahly lost tU"
pony only won through Tho pack Wa
moving ugtiH a. We left IT and drlit'd
ul"nt 70 the north
ON March 4th We assembled hills east
of Cistl" Rock and on the hfNl ~"
party with Tho remaining ponies and tn"
dog teams was safely housed at Hot
PomI BY this incident We lost thr"" ot
our strongest ponies. This was a %'N"r"
blow to tho expedition. hut not enough
to wreck 1t plans II tn" remaining "rl-
nal. could b" preserved Tn" heavy
swell which caused this disaster hrok"
more than ten miles Of sea Ice ilfE"
fragments from the barrier. ana Two
miles 4 glacier tongue, a iehtur" WHICH
had T,uglHrd otherwise unchanged sine"
dlsroyr ry Ia l'og IN" hat was found al-
moH completely filed with hard suow
tho windows brOl"u and tn" door un.
hinged with much labor "" cleared
and repaired It. II then afforded good
shelter
W,1lo forced to wait for the soa hr"o2
to blow over We Settled down to very
primitive lilr.
Win old lines and Discarded 'raH-
mrrt4 uf metal We constructed Hn tN-
rrIinu, bluhhcr STOW" mud several hluh-
Der Eup- "" fed almost entirely on
seal meat S"lls could only be- obtained
Mt e distuco over hills and wor" some .
times Scaicc hut the supply never f1ii"d
auur,it. thanks 10 III" ingenuity shown
by my companions In improvising att
r.iuEymuutS with the Slrrdcrcst Irr
Yourrva with splendid h"alth we w"i"
quite oNnfortahl" and enjoyed IN" INK
LiN Of tiN magazines.
ON March ~ III" western geological
party returned bringing our loNl +" SLY
teen persons This party had spent SIX
wrrk, making a clos, survey of tN"
bry Valley lower Frrvar and kOuttltE
Gn,Drr r, giup, thus completing gu i'm
PORTRAIT part ar our plan for tn" g"ologi-
cal survey nf the coast
Preparing for the Winter.
or March 18th Lieut. Evans led r.
party 20 Corner Camp, completing ih"
h"I'"' ~ ''"~ ~. NV. ~. ~ I,-rt..-
,"', 5,ti. "a ,,,iurs f,,ty do.
E'' "',. ~. , T'lm 49,, ,,,,,th i.. CON
r'''@,, W." w ''n. " No. ,, .,r,,,,,
.+"''' ~, I,,.', T., n,,t ,C,rr Nt,rer
M,t"S ,-"' NY -, ,,'I a., la ,h. .h.I-
~, ,,, .,,,',Ipi.d IA drive ouI rr
Tia, .nnrI linn. Ilud ice fails on tho
.,,.;rvaa .,pnrg Of Mount Erehu4 pre-
vented any possibility OF returning to
Gam. I.,au. hv hand hui with tho frroZ-
irt. of H.. H,,s ~ decided To mike an
',tI.r,,t o., reach inr station. partly by
YpI Mad nrrfly hv son irr with eight
communion. I started Nn Apri lith and
1lfh,ut.h r.,vgft by "a storm on sea ice.
W. r.urNrI cane Evans carly ~ ih"
1Gth We found the station which had
noon irft i'm simpsons charge In cN-
ccllmTt order ana arrangements for
self ,ruuT.,ho Instruments wcr" IN fHl
swing. and all records complete 80 dat
An ~, urve wus good cNtrpt ihr loss
M npa -! thr nine remaining ponies ana
nur dog During our Hhycur" Their" htd
been much wind the mean velocity for
two months being tw"utv-fuur miles per
hour For nineteen per cent N the
strength NJ observations pointed to an
p.rpr. iDuHllV severe season.