Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1923, Page 11

Il Fate Beset On First Dash for Siberia Knight and Crawford Forced to Turn Explorers : Back When Dogs Failed to Pull Through Rough Ice Surface. BY HAROLD NOICRE, Lender W nnwel feland Rescue Expedition. The temperature dropped. The blue furface of the sea froze over. The, pack ice came In from the north| again. Wrangel Island was locked ence more in the grip of winter. The beacon lantern swinging from its hizh pole went out. No one both ered to fill #t. There was no use. No sp covld reach them now. Ada Blackjack was morose and de- pressed for a while after the last; £limmer of hope of a ship had passed, | but later she sefted back into the routine of life. Though there is stili littl ndication that the marooned expedition realized the desperate sit- vation the boys bezan to discuss va- | rious ways of eseape. That optimism torn of inexperience, which had pos- sessed them from the beginning, still held them Fomd Stocks Depleated. The food stores diminished. Fresh ! meat became mo'e ¢ of a lux- : had re- - v supply of ciilized ltaek and tea. Their ¢ fare had been reduced sea oil. But al they thought tomorrow would bring better luck Knight records the capture pf an oceasicnal scal and now and then a pela b s into camp and fills stew pot. u 5 knight's dlary shows ation over the arrival of such nt erything, comes to him who fter it. At 7 am the howl and Crawford re, about a hundred There on any oi wly had a stomach den ally all of us. d a ful stomach.” they began moving to Doubiful harbor was ‘a plentiful wood at nand. y little L and the old full of grass. 1 cogs inciuded, Lout ta their camp Seamstress Busy. 1. Knight writes: to be rather solld to start moving to- long time 1 h our ind rat t 1 show up. but sh 1w for? of trying Siberia and | > her arctie them he of 19 expedi- mizht join | He had ze sup- -t unners of aht that ' to d Saria hay t find St -ans<on or get word of him. In Knight's words: Plans for Tri “Crawford and £nd the tim Feed o~ b t 1 nu We think that if the on the ice not toc 11d_be reached In . e ay. We Stefansson might b mainland south of | tif he is we will | ¥ L If he should r we will have to | very likely | nie-ing on the ma'nland we r of him and his ship and will rth this summer. doing the right thing | a this rip, | at proved correct. Due | | ! i i | I | KNOW MY DENTAL WCRK IS SUPERIOR-- That's Why | Can Guarantee | | It For Twenty Years e, Good dentn! work important i< more « e and Aenta wible come to me with confidence of get- 1 den- Jnuin. " Junt fair prices, , “Fhnt ins heen our record for the wast ¥1 years. Terms of mmyment to sult. Exami- My FPerfect S ion Teeth Othe: Sets illings, 50c to S1 up m gold <lver, ama'eam or ¥ 427-29 7th STREET N. W. Oppostt Lansiursh & Bro. and over @rand 1oton Co. 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Thov wers gettled in the new quar- ters by the Knight w-ites: Camp Left Empty. tddle of November. “Crawford and I brought the re- mainder of the camp things down to- which leaves nothinz at the oth- or camp except a fow sorans of skin and bones which might come in handv There have hren later in the winter. no signs of open wa'er for some time and unless a bear or two romes alone o n t-e dogs are going to be pretty hungry.” n ‘*he weather without snow blocks for roofing Knicht lamenting this fact, add However, we have a good stove huddte ahout the stove and try to find toples 1s a and has been goine and plenty of wood. Wa for conversation The stove cheap wood rang t adily for fourt-en months, buf e asnt for a few rep arements in the fize hox 18 as 00d a5 NOW. The diary entries durl and Deembe heief They rer accounts of trapping, ers hod 1§ tle juck meay which the expl Novamher 20 Knght wri O “Am foeding.the dogs on bearskin Crawford and T intend Aand blubber. i s possible. ing sou'h as soon T'e dog feed Is about zoi o open water and o ge Snowing and warm" By the middle of December, Knight and Crawford had definitely decided to try to reach Siberia, leaving Galle and Maurer behind with Ada. On December 18 appears this no: tation: 1he woman is about finished mak- = our clothing and (Cra; and 1) are In s-of getting for Siberia within ten days, at leas before the first of the year. Just before Christmas the snow had | edge of the rou into ous tip-overs, hardened sufficiently to be cut seem~d to be hostile, for the lack of snow left them & November L con- {tain chiefly the weather reports and with and the sooner we start the sooner we w'll be - seals. started THE SUNDAY T blocks and Crawford began roofing the tents. Knight, in his diary, says. under date of December 21, that is “under the weather” 0 help with the work. of his sicknegs merely as Indige but it probably was the beglnning of the disease which was ultimately to strong body. ssage of Christmas, b brated so gayly the yea: before, was scarcely marked. There were no | potatoes O'Brien. Even the coffes | was long 8.nce gone. Worse than | that, they ' had run out of tobacco. Hard bread, walrus skin and seal oil made up their Christmas feast. The hard bread was now being doled out on strictest ration. Knight says of Christmas eve: “Although my diary entry shows December 23, it is Chr stmas eve by the diaries of the other: celebrating (??!!?) by having an ex- tra hard bread or so apiece, - | snow roof was completed today, ex- cepting the door, and it s nice and comfortable in here tonight. very cloucy and snow.” Convinced, at last, that If they all cemalned on the island the entire party would starve to death b.iore spring, Crawford and Knight made (heir break for the outside worid on Junuary 7. They took with them the five dogs, fastened into a new set of harness wh.ch Knight bad made, and enough rations to last them for thirty days. For them- scives they had & meager suppy of hard bread and seal biubber and for ne dogs a Litle dried meat and four sealsk.ns to feed the anumals when he meat should be exhausted. Their load weighed 700 pounus. They cal- that In thirty days they :ould reach Siber.a and get food for cheuseives and help tor their com- panions on Wrangel. Dovmed to Failure. From the frst, the trip seemed doomed to fallure. They were stari- ug at the very worst time of the year. They plunned to travel mosf of the time by moonlight becausc the s better. ‘lheir sled was weak, their dogs half starved. Kuight, though he had confided his (ears only to Crawf . as already -onv.nced that what he had thought was merely indigestion, was scurvy They started, after a wearying day ot preparation, at 1 o'clock In the morning. Knight says of their de- parture: ¥At 1 a.m. Crawford and 1 started due south, over fine going and made ood time. We trave hour when we hit broken e with soft snow in between. moon was a quarter on the wane and was slightly misty. We traveled for | two and a half hours east 1 1 t | work with them several be STAR, darkness, we camped. about six miles east of camp snd a mile ‘off shore. Our load is heavy and our dogs soft, so we will go In to the beach tomorro and travel east along it, until we find an op- ortunity to go south vn good going. old mist and a strong breeze from the east, We lost one of our picks and a pot 1id. Rather.a bad start.” The second day out Knight records that the going was wonderful, with the fce as hard as concrete and very little snow: But, on the third day, both m were 80 badly “done up’ that they accomplished nothing. Hit Rough lee, On January 10, from their third camp, Knight writes: 'Broke camp early this morning and started due south. A short way from the beach we unexpectedly hit soft snow and | had to get into harness ith the dogs. About two miles off shore we again came to the edge of the rough ice, which was impoesible for the poor team and weak sled. The go- ing nhead looks bad, and as we re only five dogs in very poor cond:tion it is necd'ess to say that it is going to be difficult. Unless we get started soutl. soon I'm afraid that we will have to go back to the main camp and then go west_and look for a way through the rough ice in that direction. y Two days later, still writing at the same camp, where, the day before they sad been storm-bound, Knight says “Broke camp at 9:30 a.m. and trav e'ed until 11:30. We first went south to the pressure ridge and from the top of this saw smooth ice running east and west. We made a road throug) sevoral hundred feet of rubble ice. got to the smooth ice and found it to be a bad lead that had opened up som ‘ime the day before It was covered with young ice and drifted snow anc ‘ooked like Solid_ice to us when w s‘arted for it. Going to the east, s far ar we could see. was n-actieal’s fm nossible for us, with the five dogs and the weak sled, 80 we decld-d to 20 b« to s0'id fce and camp, which we d'd We built a snow wall and on 1 tarpaulin top. Both primus s ove: are plugged, and Crawford had to hours. A ast we got one of them working after a fashion. There doesn't seer: to be a chance to get to the main- land now. “Crawford and I have bepn rack- ing our brains on the best thing to do_ Matters stand thus: We have only five dogs. a weak sled and no a great deal of provisions. The Irc is so bad that we cannot travel to sea or to open water where we mig.it secure seals. 1 am nearly all in. (1 hate to admit this, but I am sure [ cannot help 1t.) My scurvy has been coming back for “the last month When we staried 1 was in hopes of a but getting fair'ly good going and chance to get some fresh meat Pennsylvania Ave. Saks Seventh Street We Put Precept Into Practice There is a' very definite purpose achieved ¥7:: Saks methods and mer- chandise—the result of a strict adher- ence to a policy begun when “all wool” was a figure of speech and style a phan- tom of fancy. 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Rather, do we make as sure as is humanly possible—by sharp dis- crimination and close scrutiny—that there will be no cause for complaint. | That’s our idea of service—and our standard of quality—making it so easy for you to shop here for your wardrobery WASHINGTON, D, O, OCTOBER.'28."1923—PART -3, We aré now|my legs go back.on me in\this rough +lge, for 1 am forced to get in the har- ness to help the dogs.” It was In this makeshift shel of jcanvas and snow on the lce -bfl".c'lpfl i Hawil, their stove hoatiess, finger {tps and tces already frostbitten, that Knight, hourly growing weaker |.na weaker. conceded defeat, -and, {zick ai heart, reluctantly abahdoned his hope of leaving Wra. 1 Isiand. It was decided that they should a iempt a return to. their eompanions In the main camp. -They did not know of the perlis in siore for them. (Cqntinued in The Star Monday.) (Copyrizht, 1923 0y by North Americnn " Hew ews. " derald. 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