The daily Alaskan., 1914-04-14
r ound In the Ice
 By M. ,G5aaF Copyright, 1914 by Associated Lit
 eUary Press.

cargo of wool and other articles valued at S2JOOOO. She had in her treasure room gold in dust bars and coin aggre- gating S1 ,300,OOO. She was never heard | from.
 In June, 1868, eighteen years after the loss of the Princess, l was one of the crew of tue Boston whaIer Tails.
 man. which WAS trying the cruising | ground on the south of Cape Horn.
 We had had fair run of luck when
 we got a gale from the north which | lasted for four days and nights with. out a break This drove us away south among the ice. and on q dozen different occasions the ship was within a hairs breadth of being cast away or OVer- whelmed. After the fourth day of the gale there was a calm lasting thirty hours. During this interval the Tails man lay between two monster icehergs, with her boats down and ready to tow her out of the way should they close
 in on her. Then we got a strong breeze from the east
 Sometimes We lay mOorcd to a berg
 for several hours; again we were pounding among the great cakes of ice. which threatened every moment to crush in her sides. We had been drlV- ing to the southeast for three days when the breeze fell and left us on i heaving sea, with monster iceberg about two miles away to the south.
 The ship had thus far sustained little damage, but tue crew were exhausted
 with the hard work and constant vigi-
 lance. The men were given al all days rest. and no incident occurred until late in the afternoon. The mass of ice had a front a mile long on our side. with an average height of 300 feet What it's width was we could not say. We were a-1oaishod to see smoke Tis- ing from the far side of it. No one doubted that it came from a fire lighted by shpwreckeI sailors, who had caught sight Of the TaIisman and were making her a signal.
 The third mate and three men were | ordered off in one of the whalebOats to investigate. and 1 was one of the three selected. We took with Us a breaker of fresh water bottle of rum, bread, meat, blankets, a boat compass and a lantern, and darkness fell as we pulled away from the ship.
 We pulled tO pass the western face of the berg and found it to be about half a mile long, As we reached it's southern limit and turned to the east we caught sight of a small fire Ch a ledge about I"D feet above the water. As soon as We got up to it the mate hailed and was promptly answered that there were two men on the ledge, one of whom had a broken leg. There upon I was ordered to remain by the boat and hold on, while the mate and the two men landed on the berg and began making their way up to the ledge
 Twenty minutes later the berg split, a fog-settIcd down. and with it came a breeze. I lid not know what to do, and so l laid in my oar, wrapped my self in a blanket and sat down in the bottom of the boat. You will think it queer that ] fell asleep under the cir cumstauccs. but that is exactly what happened, nor did 1 wake until day light came again. Then l found my self in am ice Hoe which was drifting to the south at the rate of about three miles an hour.
 am not at all sure how long drift. ed. but the general direction was south, and the time was at least four days and nights. On the morning of what was probably the fifth day I awoke to find that the foe had ceased drifting, and a quarter of a mile to the east of the boat was a mass of ice
 It was a mile or more in length and not over thirty feet nigh and looked more like a wall resting on the water. The ice was yellow and dirty, with rocks embedded in it here and there, and I have no doubt that a good DOT. ton of it was the lower part of an iceberg which had turned turtle. Be. tween me and the wall was a tumble of ice. over which it seemed impossible to make my way, but as soon as had broken my fast I set out to try it. It took me a full hour to make that quar- ter of a mile, hut at length reached the wall and found that I could easily get up it's rough side. When I reached the top it was to discover that the mass of ice was almost a cube, with a great hollow in its surface to remind ono of the crater of a volcano.
 Il the center of this hollow lay mass of wreckage, and after a long stare. half beIieying my eyes deceived me. 1 sid down and began invGstiga- ton. No one will ever see a more curious sight. \ space several hun. dred tect square W2s covered with broken masts. yards, beams, blanks, boards. roncs, blocks and sails. A large ship had here suffered destruction. Just how I could not determine, but it seemed to me as if a great body of ice had fallen on it as she rested in the