The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-10
ARCTIC BISHOP
BARES BATTLE
With DEATH
CONTINUED from Page 81

soon come 10 De muCH tllACACL'
AUGUST eve are getting
some trouble in a quiet harbor.
The wind starts to blow some
icebergs in our harbor. A cake
Of ice comes insidiously and lies
on ton of our anchor. We rush
the schooner on the ice to break
it, but with no avail. The chain
breaks and we lose our big
anchor and we have to rush
out of the harbor in the face
of the coming icebergs.
AUGUST 1--we 60 aground,
with the tide being low. We
manage to get out quick enough,
but we have a scare. 1t was
very bad position for a loaded
boat.
AUGUST 14.-0ur pilot, Billy,
is passing his spare time hunt
ing seals. He has killed one
dozen already. We are eating
daily the liver and flesh of
these sea animals, and he pre-
serves the blubber in a barrel
to feed his dogs next winter.
AUGUST I'D During the
night a strong wind starts anew
and ice is packed again around
us. We have High Mass on board
In honor of the Blessed Virgin.
We hear in the evening of a
terrible storm from the west of
TuktuyaktOk.
PROOF OF STORMS
AUGUST ia strong east
wind. The ice flOes continue to
run east, against the wind, at
a speed too, evident proof of the
terrible storms they have to
bear in the west.
AUGUST 26. We go
amongst the swiftly drifting ice
bergS. We pass without stop
ping Bernard HarbOr. The har-
Dor is full yet with ice.
might Is growing darker and
longer, we have run into the
most serious danger of the
whole trip. The big ice current
was running a few feet from us,
while q few feet behind we had
the hard rocks of the Cape. We
enter Paisley Cove and the ice
closes in on us but we are safe.
SEPTEMBER 4.-Keav
storms. Ice is packed again and
the ship is a prisoner.
SEPTEMBER Same
storm raging, fog, rain and
wind.
SEPTEMBER 10 Violent
wind packing heavy icebergS and
we are still held prisoners.
SEPTEMBER 12.-Same po-
sition, same conditions. Yet we
hear about the weather getting
calmer and some hope to us.
SEPTEMBER 16.-COnditiOnS
about the same, rather worse.
SEPTEMBER 1S.-Bitter dis
appointment, the wind turns.
Heavy snowfall. The morale of
the crew is getting low with a
diet of unSavory beans and the
prospect of a premature winter.
We play cards to keep away the
gloomy thoughts, but with not
much of a success.
SEPTEMBER 19.-SituatiOn
unchanged. To keep a little
longer with our beans, we do eat
the rotten seal Billy picked up in
q net a month ago. Horror!
SEPTEMBER 24.-We notice
two hanger bolts of the propeller
shaft have fallen out. That's the
finishing touch. Had we enough
food to last two or three days
more, we could fix it again, but
our provisions have been utterly
run out.
1--WE start to work and beach
the schooner as safe as we can
for the winter"
WALK so MILES
That concludes the diary Of the
but Bishop Fallaize wrote
an epilogue, telling of the exper.
Iences of the party after leaving
The ship.
They were forced to walk over
and between so and 10 miles to
reach the nearest mission. and
arriving there experienced what
he described as the bitterest dis.
appointment of the season."
The supplies on the ship had
not reached the mission, but they
knew there was a cache there of 80
seals and about $500 salmon. But
hey found bears had raided the
cache and eaten all.
However, they did find a few
frozen caribou, and these saved
their lives, and the party started
10 find fuel, food and dog food.
Two parties went fishing
through the ice. A tent was put
Up and a stove constructed out OF
oil drums. The Bishop related:
Gin a country where not a
scrap Of wood was to be had, we
were fortunate to find a natural
OutcrOpping of cOal-a real God.
send. l turned myself into a
miner to dig out coal"
Get Radio Set
Later two of the priests took 6
dog team, went back to thu
oeached schooner and returned
with the radio set. This was SCI
Up and for the first time thu
plight Of the party was revealed
10 the outside world.
A plane was sent to their rescue
reaching them on December 9, bu
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