The Nome daily nugget., 1917-12-22
The Log of The Schooner White Bear

The Log of The Schooner White Bear
 SATURDAY. Oct. 27th--Port, Solo mon. Discouraged ten tons of rrelgnt, twenty sacks mall and hve passengers. Crew and boarued boat at y.su p. m., for Nome w!ta one passenger ana mall. Turneu engine over: II ran h4Ieea minutes anu stopped. Found the ;roub- le; cyhaers dry. heavy standaru gas engine oil froze in base. 1t was a cheap grade costing only $2.90 for large h4e gallon can. Worked rom 10 p. ID. unll a. m. but englne wouI4 not run over ten minutes owlng 10 l.Ie feed pipes plugging. Weather very cold.
 SUNDAY, October 2sth-Four a. m. blowing a nortnerly Role boat com- menced drifting seawaru; dory turneu turtle: used the same for sea an- chor. B a. n. Ragged a sal on She mast; very colu Job: was hard work to hang on deck. GrItiths and Coin both seaslck and Tony the native was at the wheel. so l had no help at raising the eail.
 a. m. boat drifting seaward fast and wind blowing a gale. l decide.. ;o head for Stewart Island. did not expect any relief to come, unless 1t would be the Umatilla, so 1 cut the dory loose and hoisted the sail. tried Q pull the dory on deck but could not do SO alone. Was very sorry to ace one hundred dollars (the value of the dory) cast adrift. The wind was by this time go strong that we could not hold the boat up 70 the wind. 80 1 se. q course south-southeast and run bee fore 1t.
 g a. m.-The wind getting steadily stronger and MT, Griffiths and Coin very sick. I gave thanks that had one man with me that was not sick. Tony and I took turns at the wheel, both of us very wet and with our clothes covered with ice. It Is pretty tough when a fellow ssts caught out In his summer clothes.
 II D. m.-Found the boat taking wa ter from the after hatch and also caught some good big deckloads from the high waves. The whole ocean was 6 mass of foam and We could not see over a mile. The deck pump was froz- on up and could not be used. The wa ter kept getting higher in :he boat so told Coin to get up and bail or else drown. He answered: Let her sink" He was too sick and all in to care. Finally the water got DO high that 1t turned the cabin stove upside down and the bed on which the boys lay started 10 float so they decided 70 bail water. I guess 1t is pretty hard on . fellow to stand up to his knees in icy water and bail oily pilgs water when he Is seas!ck. 50 ono can picture how they looked and felt. Both were pret- ty pale around the giils.
 MONDAY. Oct, 2sth.-could not see Steward Island as 1t was showing and dark. so figured on going on to Kotlik. At 2.so we run into slush ice but it was so dark that We could not see anything. I figured we must be close 70 Stewart Island and tried to Get out of the ice and make for the west point of tho is- land But we found that is was i'm. possible to turn the boat as the siush ice was too heavy. We finally gave it up and 1 stayed on watch until daylight es everyone was ell in.
 6, a. m.--1 sounded bottom at eight fathoms.
 c 6. m. Packed ice came suddenly piling in on the boat making a lot of noise. The pressure pushed the bow of tho boat out of the water and on top of the ice but did no damage.
 10 .. m. Tho weather showed signs of clearing and tf.ere was no longer wind. On looking around found that Point Romanoff was visible east southeast. at . distance of about fifteen miles. We rested ali day. all hands being too tired to even cook and eat. Besides. there WAS no water as all the fresh water had washed over in the heavy seas the night before.
 TUESDAY. Ger. S0-- a e. u. A light north.northwest wind and the boat drifting to sea. Point Romanoff was now due east .: . distance of about twenty miles. Also saw low Iand eaat.southeast. about fifteen miles away. We spent the whole day msk. eAA n% = N~s>