Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-10-13

age was situated opposite the point where the wayworn band were located Signals were made for help and reteiv- ed answer from the village. It happen ed, however, that the only occupants of the village were three women. They possessed no boat in which to reach the .shipwrecked men but hastehed to the next village for assistance In the meantime the Belvedere refugees waited with what patience they could muster until help @oula come. After a wait of such duration that they had commenced to think they were due for night on the ice. a native boat arrived and placed the crew ashore.
 After landing the crew were given shelter for the night in the squalid lhuts of the natives On the following day a severe blizzard arose and held the ishipwreeked men prisoners in the native village until the morning of lScptember goth, when they set out for Cape Serge Part of the distance fo tbe, cape was made by boat and the rema inder on foot On reaching Cape
 Serge, the crew were cared for by trader Wall. who did all that was pos siblc to assist them. On the follow ing day Mate Harwood, accompanied lhy another man. started for East cape lby dogateam. The rest of crew started out for the same point on the following day in skin boats The trip to East Cape was accomplished With out mishap After arriving at the cape the shipwrecked mariners learn
 ed that the Nome schooner Belinda
 was lying in q nearby lagoon. where
 the vessel had been bottled mp by q
 storm closing the entrance. II was
 decided to attempt to haul the vessel cut and proceed to Norhe. With the
 consent of the owner, Arnold Castel.
 who was encountered at Whaling, the
 Belvcdere survivors proceeded to the lagoon but found that the schooners keel was broken in such mancr as to make tho vessel unscaworthy. They
 then returned to East Cape. After discussing numerous plans of escaping
 from the bleak cape. it was decided tl1 n1h Tel r,1S n
 the hope that q vessel might be found to bring them to Nome The party started in two whale boats, one in charge of Capt. Hansen and the other under Mate Harw!od. After proceed ing part way to the island, the mates boat encountered fog and turned back to East Cape The other boat man. med by F men reached the island safely Finding that the schooner 1.-the native owners to proceed to East lCare to pick up the remainder of the Icrew and transfer them to Nome. The Ram departed from East Cape October 10th. with all members of the Bclve- Iderr crew and two Nen from the Be- linda. The Ram landed yesterday forenoon after q speedy passage. The
 men are apparently none the worse for their experience and all arc in good
 health, despite the intense suffering they must have undergone following 
 the abandonment of thcir ship and es-
 pecially during the perilous and diffi- cult trip over the storm swept ice to land.
 Capt Hansen has had eighteen years experience in northern waters and like the storm sweeping over the polar
 sea in which the Bclvedcre was des- itroyed. He says tho crew behaved
 splcndidly and displayed the greatest
 fortitude throughout the nerve wrecks ling experience. The journey across the hcaving ice he describes as one that is beyond conception to one who 4has not experienced some of the diff entities and dangers of such q trip. The lloss of the Beivedere was due entirely Ito tho storm. he says, and no human
 agency could have saved the vessel
 after she was caught In the grip of the pack, He says~that as usual thing
 one can look back over events of such character and see where things might