Nome tri-weekly nugget., 1919-09-22
TREASURE SEEKING
 SCHOONER CASC0
 WRECKED ON KING ID

Driven ashore by q terrific south east gale September sth, the San formerly the property of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous author. is ly ing on the rocks near the southern end of King Island and may never again brest the sea in pursuit of the Adventures which have long made the schooner famed throughout the world through the romantic tales of her for
 mer owner. At the time of the dis aster tho schooner was enroute to Nome, after beating her way out of the ice along the northern Siberian !coast after reaching North Cape. On arrival at that point after undergoing lunnumerable trying vicissitudes due to Iuntoward conditions of sea and ice, the hardy band of adventurers com-
 posing tho expendition concluded that
 it would be impossible to reach their destination in the Kolyma river sec tion and decided to return to Nome. The voyage to North Cape had been one marked by every variety of ad venture conceivable Continually beset by heavy ice flows throughout the entire three hundred miles of the passage from East to North Cape the schooner, was many times in danger of destruction. Eight times during the trip the vessel was aground on sand banks and bars and shoals. Both going and returning, the crew of the schooner were many times com Ipclled to work the Casco through the leads in the ice pack by hand and many days of unremitting toll enabled
 the vessel to advance no more than
 three or four miles. The Casco reach ed North Cape August 24th and found
 the ice conditions so bad that it seem ed further passage to the westward was impossible. While off North Cape those aboard the schooner report (oSSAh6 NiC iNoh1N<tNs OElI I1tdT siIlu the Russian steamer Stavanpol, of lVladivostok, which was bound to the
 Kolyma section with provisions for the natives.
 By this time the temperatures ranged
 from 26 to 30 throughout the day, the
 crew became apprehensive of being frozen in the ice pack. It was de- cided to unload the bulk of the ships stores at North Cape in anticipation of returning to continue the voyage to the vessels mysterious destination
 next year. After placing the goods ashore the Casco was again headed for the east and commenced 'what may prove to be her last voyage. Having no power, the task of getting the sch ooner through the cumbering ice pack
 was one of the greatest difficulty. At times the schooner was able to employ
 her sails but equally often she was practically dragged through the mar
 row leads by her crew. On several occasions they entered blind leads and
 found themselves in cul de sac from
 which it required days of time and in-
 finite labor to get the vessel clear and lonce more on her. course. After a
 round of trials and visissitudes which
 sound in their relation more like a lstory book that a narrative of actual lexperience. the schooner was finally
 brought back to East Cape and headed
 for Nome. South of the cape. no ice Twas encountered but.a new variety of hardship in the form of severe north- least gales kept the crew busy thruout Ithe passage across Boring Sea to the vicinity of King Island. about seventy live miles from Nome. On arriving Ioff the island. the wind became 90 |severe that it was decided to take lshelter behind the island, The schoo- ner was headed for the south end of