Year: 1875

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when the lives OF the whole party and OF his own vito
and child depended his unaided exertions alone;
for the cool courage and steady hand when he know
that n he missed bis shot the whole party, with his
wife and child, must perish Tor the quiet unpreten-
tieus unconscious heroism displayed by Joe through
out. Day after day, II the word day be used in
connection with what for great part Of the time
thermometer fty degrees below zero oe went out 70
hunt remaining for hours In the darkness and driving
snow storms, waiting beside hole ice for
the appearance Of seal with patience that tired
with perseverance, that no number OF failures that
no series OF disappontments could discourage weary
y VIII DC seen oy Tysons journal that scarcely day
passed without Joe going out TO hunt Storm and dark
ness and bitter cold mattered not TO him. He would
return nine times out or ten with nothing perhaps; but
he would again and again he would watch for hours
and even days beside seal hole, hoping and wishing
with that 'hope which maketh the heart sickp wheR
days Of disappointment and failure seemed 10 have not
the slightest chance OF success until al last his patience
would he by the appearance OF the long ex-
pected seal when they the very verge OF
vaton Herronis journal Is full Of such entries
these-"wednesday March 5, Joe went out IN the lass
blow; i seems he cannot stay he Is arst rate fell
low we would have been dead men long since had it
not been for him"


Nov 6-Joe caught a seal. which has been Cod
send We are having feast tonight, three-fourths
ofa pound Of food being our allowance.
Nov. 21-The natives caught two seals
Nov. 22-Joe caught one seal-another good supper
we had


Deo 2o-Joe found crack yesterday and three scala


Dec 28.-Joo shot seal which is a Godsend, as We
are pretty weak. We have had a good supper thank
Jan 2e.-Ioe caught seal in a blow hole to-day
Ihs VIII get up our strength, as We barely live on the


Feb. 2o-wo must soon ge, good lead Of water run
ming In shore, and so escape or XIII seals else time
In this world will be short


Feb. 2L-Joe shot seal.


April 22-Ar hyer is starving he cannot last long
In this state. Chewed piece OF skin this morning
that tanned and saved for clothing Joe ventured
of on the ice the fourth time and looking good
while from piece OF iceberg saw bear coming slowly
toward US. he ran back for his gun All OF us lay
down and remained perfectly still, Joe and Hans gong
out some distance to meet the bear Getting behind
hummOck Rrufu
thinking he coming to meal instead OF furnishing
one himself Cack bangl went two rides and down
Bruin to a starving lot or men The Lord
be prasedl This Is His heavenly work. We
not catch seal for the push ice, and We are
along where bears seldom seen, and we certainly
never expected TO find one The poor bear hungry
nimself there was nothing in his stomach joe poor
fellow, looking worry much down account
Everything looks bright again now.


March 2 Captain Tyson writes-"Joe has shot o
monster vogook-a large kind OF sea-thc largest
have ever seen 1t took all hands TO drag him TO the
nuts Peter fairly danced and sung for No one who
has not been in similar position to ours can toll the
feeling OF relief which his capture produced. How
reoiced over tho death Of this vogook would be i'm
possible to describe II was, indeed, great devor-
10 those who had been reduced 10 meal OF .
few ounces day. Hannah had but small peces OF
bubber left, enough for the lamp for two
days; tho men had but little, and Hans had
only enough for one day And now just the verge
of absolute destitutlon, along this monstrous
vogjook the only Of the seal species to-day:
and the fellow | have doubt weighs 900 or 700
pounds Truly we are rich indeed Praise the Lore
for His merciesl lew dowkies were also shot; bui
the vogjook 10 the Joy of Our glorious vog
Jock proved on measurement seven feet nine inches in
length from head TAIL excluding the latter. Adding
the hind nipper, he measured fully nine feet What
Godsend!
jock Joe was at distance, and not having had as
much practice as ho and fearing might not kill
with my inferior rifle, l beckoned Joe to come along
with his Springfield In the meantime; to keep tho
creature from slipping away commenced whistling


whsed until Joe crep along TO within shooting DIS
tance and killed the voook. He has killed three seals
to-day hut one sunk and was lost


jan l6.-Found the natives had shot seal. IL
seems as though God let's get to the OF despair
and then sends some mitigating circumstance to relieve
the gloom ordered the seal to be taken into Joes
hut to be divided AS he did the most toward getting
the food, thought this right. One OF the men,
however took upon himself to take into their hut
They have divided the seal suit themselves and hope
they are now satisfied but it does seem hard the
natives who have hunted day after day in cold and
Storm while these men lay idle on their backs sat
playing cards in their hus, built by these natives
whom they thus wrong. native will sometimes re-
before getting chance to strike and If the first
| is not accurate the game is gone forever.
| Jan 19.-Joc and Hans hunting, but il was blow
ing heavy very cold Joe says he tried to shoot
but that he shook with the cold that he could not
that he could not feel the trigger OF his gum and tho


Jan. 2a-Joc Is not we'll hope he will not get
down sick, for depend greatly upon him Though
such little fellow, he Is mighty hunter in his way


Jan. 2s.-The Esqumaux of, as usual, on the
hunt They do not stop for fog, cold or wind We're
II not for little Joe, Esqumau though he be, many IL
not all Of this party must have pershed before





u.s. and the seals he has captured have furnished
not only with the fresh essential our posi-
ton, but without tho oil nom the bubber could
neither have warmed our food nor had any means Of
melting for drink We survived through God's
mercy and Joc's ability as a hunter.


Fob. Little puny Joe and HRnnah's child q
little girl, is sitting wrapped in musk skin Every
few minutes she says to her mother, II hungry"
The children often cry with hunger 1t makes my
heart ache, but they are obliged to bear 1t with the
rest.


Feb Two have had some little trouble over the seal





for he has shot but few wishes appropriate all
his own familys use. He is a very thoughtless Esqu-
selfish he is not successful hunter like joe
nor has he Joc's sense He does know how To
build hut for himself or at any rate he did not do IL
Joe built 1t for him. He threatened this evening TO
hunt any more He was hired, and will be paid If we
get home for tho very purpose of hunting for the
expedition. II is no favor on his part


Feb. 1a-Saw only one seal to-day. Joe shot
him. This seal the men took possession OF, and
divided II as they pleased Joe very angry, which
was no wonder Joe and Hans exposed many hours
every day to the wind aud cold and very hard
that these idle men should take the seals from them


Bo y remembered that Joe was in no wise obliged to
stay with these men. He could at any moment when


they were huddcd together in the house he had built
for them, trying to Keep little warmth in their
stunned bodies and afraid to STIR out OF DOORS have
picked up his few effects and with Hannah and the
chlld gone OIL fifteen or twenty miles the ice and
there have built snow house for himself Here he
would not have been obliged share the hard earned
spols of his spear and gun with others TO take the
food out of the mouths or his wife and child give
lot OF men who, according their own accounts,
were ungratcul and often unjust towards him. and whe
evidently looked upon him a poor OF in
ferlor race


''But Cap'n Hall not away not away
neither. !" No greater example OF lofty, noble nerosm
has been recorded


Is II not little strange that after all this when these
men came home, Joc's name scarely mentioned
tho accounts they gave the papers; that attention
was called TO what he had done, notice taken or
him


Not till the journals of these published-a
long time aterwarddd the truth appear and then 10
did not out in such way to attract public
attention Joe speaks little English; his old friend
Captain Hall was dead and thore nobody 20 look
after him. He tells me he has not received all his pay.
do not know how this is he speaks English so
badly that Is impossible 10 get clear idea of the
tract he made how much he was TO get, how much
he actually did receive But think that either some
collection agent got part Of his money or that Hall
had promised him good deal than
his regular pay from the government-a promise
he would havc Of course fulfilled had he ever
returned. As II s Joe Is cast loose the world, with
means of gaining livelihood except BY going with
Arctic Shins. which he Of nl,rava dn