Evening star., 1923-11-01

,Gn 18th of June I got one female
scar sioar duck OF course Knight
he's got sore throad On 9Th OF june
| found one seagall egg and 1 saw
banch OF seagals on one place and
! round six more new nests but
coming back there was flock of
geese and l took shot there One
drop My! ] was glad. Came home
with one geese egg and after four
nine eggs. that is seagali eggs. Oh
yes, the goose that i got had one egg
and and two smals ones the largest one
through. That's about all well, say
IN this notice I write. I may write
some more some times If nothing
happen to me- In few days.
With lots of best regards to your
self from me
MR. MRS. ADA B. JACK.
. Ada still looks to the day when |
Crawford. Maurer and Gale shall re-
turn. She is often doubtful that she
will live to see them. but she pre-.
pares for every emergency. Still
writing on Gales typewriter the day
after Knights death she says:
June 23d 1929.
I'm going write every day where
I'm going so 1t be easyer to know
Gale and Mr.. Crawford come back.
To-day I'm going to the old camp.
Might have chance to see seal or !
might have better chance to shot
some sweet roots"
Few Lines Each Day.
Evidently she left the sheet in the
typewriter and each day she adds
line or two. giving her. whereabouts:
other side; of the harbor mouth do
some duck hunding.
June %. Going same as yester-
day. 1 got seven eidars.
June 26. I'm going to take walk
to the Smale island. | saw two polar
bears going In shore from the Ice
way over west of the camp. | saw
the polar bears when come back
i write down when l saw them. l
don't know what I'm going TO do II
they come to the camp. Well, Goo
knows.
June 81. I'm going hunt seal
today. I'm going after the seal that
7 saw when I went the old camp the
other day. 1t was about 200 yards
from the beach l got a seal / shot it
with the rifle. oh. was glad when
] got the seal. and when l come |
cut the seal and hang the meat to
dry.
June IS. clean the seal skin to-
day and lat this afternoon polar bear
and one cub was very close to the
camp and | didn't take any chances.
1 was afraid If 1 didn't hit it right
I'd be in danger l Just shot over
glad, thank the living Cod"
Hunts seals Vigorously.
Quite as vigorously as any of lae
men of Wrangle Island had hunted
seals the preceding spring, Ada hunts
them now.
On July she ends her description
OF an unsuccessful days hunting
her
with: THE seal went. down and I
stand up and say 4th OF July. 1t was
surprise rife boom, so l have my
4th of July" !
The next day she shoots at two ,
seals and kills one of them. After !
hauling it home, skinning it, hang |
ing the meat and stretching the skin, |
she exults little in her efficiency |
with;
"All done in one day and this even
Ing took bath Thank the Lord
Jesus"
Later. Ada kills another seal. but
polar bears take possession of ii,
and she sees them devouring her prize
before she can haul 1T to camp.
Up to the very last record in the
diary. which is dated August 19, the
day before our arrival for rescue Ada
works early and late In her struggle
for food She makes a seal net. She
builds herself a canvas boat When
1t is blown away. she makes another
one which she is careful to tie up.
Il finish new canvas boat. Oh, yes,
made oars for my little boat. 1
thank God"
On the morning of August H. she
gets up to find that in the night,
polar bears have eaten a full can of
seal blubber. left standing just out
side the door of her tent. Conscious
how narrow had been her escape she
writes: i thank the Lord Jesus keep
me from danger"
With driftwood Ada built a look
hA,-
day she climbed to the top of it and
searched the ice with field glasses
for signs of open water.
On August 18, she sees that the ice
Is moving and records the fact
cautiously.
The wind blowing hard from the
west and the ice is going out slowly.
a few days ago I thought 1t was GO
ing out, but II didn't go very far"
last Night Alone.
The following night, which was to
be Ada's last alone on the island, she
makes her final entry:
IL finished my knitted gloves today. !
l am on my last biscuit box. The
ice is over the top of the horizon I |
thank the Lord Jesus and God His
Father"
The Eskimo woman had no sooner
finished building her morning fire
than a strange sound came through
the walls of the little tent. 1t was
vague at first, muffied by the fog,
then unmistakable. Ada grabbed up
her field glasses and dashed from her
shelter. She climbed to the look -out
and peered through the fog until her
eyes finally caught sight Of a ships
mast.
Elsewhere 1 have described our
meeting: 'I was so glad that I cry,
Ada wrote of it. II hardly believe
that it was a ship. And ] thought
will see Crawford and Gale and
Maurer. And they told me nobody
knows anything about those three
fellows. Gosh. that was sad news to
me-"
So ends the chronicle of Ada, She
Is now living In Nome, Alaska. Her
narrowing experience did not shatter
her nerves. She Is as we'll as she
ever was.
The boys are. gone, but the work
for which they gave their lives goes
on. Twelve Eskimos and. one white
man are now on Wrangel. carrying
gan, inspired by his vision of a north
ward moving civilization. 1t Is his
resolve that. never again shall this
island be uninhabited. Wrangel has
been definitely claimed from the
wilderness, irrespective of what gov
eminent finally takes 1t over.
Although now valuable chiefly for
airship base that sWrangel Island
promises interesting developments.
For it is a stepping stone on the
shortest route from England to ia
pan. Some day, perhaps, the shores
where Ada wandered In search of
food, and where knight died, will
boast gigantic hangars. Searchlights
great dirigibles. This region, desolate
since the world began, may hum with