Evening star., 1926-12-26

fast getting the best of the fight.
| l Immediately started for them.
upon which Faber fed. J. ordered him
to go aboard ship, which he refused to
do. / simply said. II am not going to
chase you. / will settle with you
when you do come" for I knew he
would come back before long.
Mr.. Long came aboard with me and
he told me that Faber had been sui
len and insolent all the morning, not
doing his work in any kind of manner.
which so enraged Mr.. Long that he
attempted to strike Faber. but Faber
anticipated what was coming and
struck first.
The other officers then told me
more For more than a week Faber
had been trying to pick quarrel and
| Woodland, the coward and sneak, was
| back of 1t all.
Mr.. Lee, the fourth officer who was
by far the strongest man in the ship.
was the only man who had no COM
plant to make. for both Faber and
| Woodland knew their case would be
hopeless in his hands.
At noon Faber came aboard. and /
| gave to the first officer a pair of hand
cuffs and ordered him to put them on
| Faber. As Mr. Long started toward
| MIN Will tHc CunS, JuiIlpCu anu
| knocked him down, but he had hardly
struck Mr.. Long when / grasped him
| In a shorter time than it takes to write
| 1t and the handouts were on him be-
| fore he realized 1t.
The next day. Sergt. Fitzgerald of
| the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
appeared on board and asked II ! was
willing he should see Faber, as a COM
| plant had been made by members of
| the crew that Faber was being bru-
| tally treated and tortured.
The sergeant said that he would, If
| I was willing, see the man and his
condition, so that he might under
standingly answer such complaint.
at once assured him ] had no hesi-
fancy in conducting him where Faber
| was, which 1 did. After looking him
| over few moments and asking Faber
few questions, the sergeant said to
me, "You are justified as far as / can
| ascertain in keeping him as he is now
until you are satisfied he will make no
more trouble"
A day later, Faber sent for me. He
| was indeed meek, telling me more
than I asked to be told, confirming my
previous notion that Woodland was
at the bottom of 1t.
Faber promised never again to give
us any trouble. I then took him on
deck and called all the crew to hear
what he had to say, when he apollo
gized before all for what he had done
and accused Woodland of being the
| chief actor to get the best of the Off
GERS.
| instructed Mr.. Long to take off
| the handouts, after which paid my
respects to Woodland, reminding him
hA rhanCed he
| would be confined for much longer
period Thus ended this test of insub-
ordination.
A MOTHER lean season followed, the
4 most discouraging whaling we
ever had. We got our first whale Au-
gust 26, but by the 29th we had three.
Feeling a. little uneasy. since knew
how completely stores of every kind
had been used up, and that we could
not afford to take chances of being
caught in the ice, at pm. of the 29th
started slowly to the west.
I could now see that my fears were
| justified, for between Polly and Geary
| Islands we were forced to go into
three fathoms of water to get by one
point of the pack, and the depth was
| the least we could go into without
grounding.
After passing that point of ice. it
was quite noticeable how fast the
whole pack was moving shoreward,
evidently by big pressure brought TO
| bear on 1t by a strong northwest to
west wind that was blowing to. the
| westward Of us.
After we passed the point in three
| fathoms Of water, the steamer Beluga,
astern of us about 10 miles, came to
| the point, but the ice had gone In
shore so fast that the water was too
shallow to allow her TO come by, and
she had to put back for Baillie Island
Crossing the western mouthtof the
Mackenzie River, ice again, made
shoreward until, abreast of Shingle
| Point, we were brought to a stop in
| az fathoms of water. Ice to the
west was hard on the land.
Here we found the Alexander and
! Thra sher. The captains both came
aboard the Bowhead. After listening
to what they had observed. we con-
cluded our situation was, indeed, des'
perate.
At daylight next morning ! or
dered the anchor up. We steamed
along and spoke the two, steamers.
and they followed close behind me
into the pack. We urged the engi-
| TGGES dHu IlECIiiCIA W OO GIL tlCy SOOib
| to make the ship do her utmost, and
we'll she proved her ice-going quail
| ties.
Showing great pieces from her prov,
smashing others, we began to make
great headway. passing King Point,
where we saw the schooner Bonanza
high up on the beach, having been
pushed there by the ice, a hopeless
wreck. Down by Kay Point, the
Bowhead, showing many scars for
the work she had done in contact with
| the ice that day, cast anchor in Paul
inc Cove at Herschel Island, our Win