The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1898, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1898. snow knife for a while. We got around the water after a long time, reaching land just at dark and werg glad to camp. 3 We traveled on the edge of the ice | on October 31 and made good progress. | We made about twenty-five miles on | November 1. That night a heavy gale | came on from the northeast, together | with a snow storm, so did not break | camp the next day, but started early | on the 3d, and about 10 a. m. came to a deserted Indian village. The natives had no doubt gone off on a deer hunt. I found an old ax in one of the shacks which 1 appropriated, leaving in its place a couple of boxes of which is the best legal ten- cartridges der in that section. We kept \r:u'elh}: that day until 5 p. m., when we again struck open water and had to come back for over three miles before we could get back to the beach again, where we camped. On November 4, seeing open water, we started to cross the mountains. We made nearly fifteen miles that day, but the next, working from early morning until late at night, we only made a few miles, and had to unload the sled sev- eral times and pack the load on our backs. On the 6th we saw that the ice floe had drifted back to the shore, and we worked our way down the mountain toward the ice. In places found it so steep we had to use a rope and slacken the sled down. We even took advantage of the head wind by putting the sail up, so as to keep it back. If the sled had got the start on us it would have been dashed to pieces on the rocks below and our trip would have been a failure. We were over eight hours in getting onto the floe. The ice was very, rough and we did not make over five miles, although we traveled as long as Wwe e, ed in camp the next day, as the natives were very tired and I was afraid the dogs would give out. They were getting hat footsore. On the Sth we started again, the wind blowing fresh from the northeast, and getting strong nd stronger. We made for shore about 5 p. m. By this time nd had into a blizzard. ipossible to pitch our tent and It was the 1 the natives knew I did, but we start- to the snowbank until we on the inside and kept the snow out and until it ough to accommodate our- | d our eight dogs. Although | ature must have been a way | zing we felt very comforta- | had a good night's rest. m could work ind died ; and at 10 a. m. | we commenced our travels again. We | did not stop until nearly midnight. | Our stock of provisions was now | about exhausted. We reached a native | > just back of Cape Lisburne and | red some powder and breakfast for our- selves and ( The natives at this point will h 1 hard time this win- ter, as the geable winds have | n the ice so unsafe that they do not dare ventt out any distance on it to shoot seal, which is about their | only means ¢ of the 10th we We had no provisions On the morning broke camp. left. We started ov eling until late, the mountains, trav- hen we pitched our tent, suffering ynies from hunger. The n mornin~ we worked our way toward the beach to see if we could get L. The wveling that day was the worst we had yet encoun- the ice b g full of hummocks zed. even had to fill in | some places with ice so as to run the other places we had to unload the s and pack our outfit for a short distance around the rocks. We | must have unloaded the sied ten times | day. | A little before dark we saw a seal | and shot him, but he drifted away | from us. We pitcled camp, and I| took a chew of tobacco, tightened my | belt up and called it a square meal. k | The next morning we found that all | We our dogs had left us. After looking | terrific, and we had to unioad the sied | around a little we saw their tracks on the 1c& floe, headed for Point Hope, | which I figured was about twenty-eight i miles from our camp. I slung the sack of mall over my shoulders, and leaving thy outfit we started after the dogs, it | being my intention if I did not find | THE MEETING WITH LI ROUTE FOLLOWED BY TILTON. 5 HE] : j /anrighy Tniet ICYCAPE 4@ X =T %, ==X Rovee o v 2 M o them to keep on until I reached the point. We had probably gone a mile when we saw our dogs feasting on the carcass of a whale which some whaler had killed and skinned. My natives were just as much delighted with this | find as my dogs, and they devoured a large quantity of the putrid meat. Hungry as I was this carcass was too gamey for me. After the Indians had eaten all they wanted we took our dogs back to camp, | harnessed them, came back to the car- cass, cut off sufficient meat to last the dogs several days and proceeded on our trip. A little distance from the whale we came upon a flock of ducks. 1 manage”, by crawiing over the ice carefully, three of them and my native Kkilled four, but we only succeeded in landing one and had to fish a long time before we secured this one. A fire was bullt, the duck skinned and boiled in salt water. I ate the entire duck. We started again, but_the road was twice that afternoon. A heavy wind came up about 4 p. m., with snow squalls, but we kept on, traveling close to the bank until it got so dark we could not see. This was about 7 p. m. It began clearing off, and the indica- tions all pointed to a pleasant night, EUTENANT JARVIS to get near enough to kill | | but at midnight we were awakened by | our tent falling on us. We wriggled | | out the best we could and got into our | skin clothing behind a snow bank. It | was the hardest blizzard we had yet | struck. We dug a hole in the snow | bank large enough to get our sleeping | | bags stretched out, pulled some of the | | dogs in and managed to keep warm the | balance of the night. | As Point Hope miles away from us, and as we had nothing to eat, I slung the mail sack over my shoulder, took my natives and | started for the point. The wind blew in squalls and so heavy at times that | we had to lie down until it would sub- | side somewhat, when we would march on. We succeeded in reaching Point Hope in about twelve hours, stopping at the | first house we came to, which we found | to be that of a Mr. Anderson, who is engaged in shore whaling. He cooked | a meal for both the natives and my- gelf and gave us a change of skin clothing. | I found that my natives had their cheeks and ears frozen pretty badW land I had one toe and both ears | frozen. The blizzard kept up without inter- mission for four days. When it abated I hired a couple of natives to assist me was only twenty | | to carry more food fer both ourselves ing. We succeeded in getting around Cape Thompson, but were afraid the dogs and sled would break through the ice, as it was very soft and full of holes. 3 On November 30 we broke camp at | 5 a. m.,, the wind blowing from the southeast and a wet, heavy snow beat- | ing us in the face. The Indians and | | dogs were soon almost exhausted. | On December 1 we got under way | early, but the ice was so full of ponds and lagoons that we traveled in about every point of the compass. About 2 o’clock that afternoon we reached a | small hillock and found it impossible | to either get ahead or go back, as we | were surrounded with water. There was no fuel on this hillock and we tvere compelled to stay there three days, liv- ing on canned meats and frozen fish that had been purchased for dog food. | The water fell away so that we were enabled to continue our trip on Decem- ber 5, making about fifteen miles, and on the 6th we reached Charles Kling- | berg’s whaling station. We stayed at | his place all night. We left the station | on the Tth, arriving at Cape Blossom | on December 13. We made poor time. The ice was soft and the temperatnre | too warm for the dogs to travel on. I had nine dogs left when we reached Cape Blossom. Mr. and Mrs. Samms gave me a most cordial welcome, and Mrs. Samms’ com- panion, a Miss Hannahcult, \was also very kind.* She was teaching school at the cape. Mrs. Samms busied herself in cooking a quantity of provisions for us. During my stay at Mrs. Samms’ I procured a sied and several dogs from the natives, and was now in a position and our dogs. I also got enough fish | for the docgs to last me to the Buck- | land River. | ‘We left on the 18th and had good | weather. Also made good time on the 19th. On the 20th we had another bliz- | zard, and remained in camp all day. | ‘We went about twenty miles on the | 21st, and the next four days we aver- aged over twenty miles, reaching the mouth of the Buckland River on | Christmas night. | There we camped and . had our | Christmas dinner, which consisted of | pork and beans, fried frozen fish,‘ fried bacon, fresh bread and a tin of | preserved California grapes. I had | coffee for my use, the Indians pre- | ferring tea. I bartered that night} with some natives for more dog feed. | The next day we traveled up the | Buckland River, making thirty miles, | and then traveled over the por-| tage by compass in the direction which | 1 thought would bring me to Edgituck | River, leaving the Buckland at 3 a. m. | and reaching the Edgituck at 10 p. m,, | where we pitched our camp. My inten- | tion on the 29th was to work along the Egituck and make Norton Sound, but found the snow very deep and the river | so crooked that we made direct across | the country, steering again by com- pass and crossing the Egituck four | times. We reached Norton Sound that | night at 7 o'clock. { - o S 2 00000°0 0 049 S, 5%%e%00'c 0> ®o0 AND DR. CALL OF THE BEAR., George F. Tilton, Third in getting my sled and camp utensils, also my dogs, to Point Hope. My two natives were suffering too much from frost bite and were too feeble to be of any assistance. I reached my old camp that after- noon, and found all the dogs except- ing one. We slept in the snow house and started back to the point the next morning. Found in packing that the tent was blown to tatters, the ridge pole broken and the stove badly smash- ed. T was obliged to ride all the way in, as my frozen toe pained me intense- ly. On our road back we found the body of the lost dog. It had been blown off the bluff, falling on the ice below, an almost perpendicular height of fifty feet. Mr. Brower had given me letters of introduction to Captain Nelson, the su- perintendent of Leibes’ Point Hope whaling station, and I kept on to this place, which is about three miles .south of Anderson’s. As the natives I had from Point Bar- row would now leave me Captain Nel- son advised me to take Tickey and = Cannuanwar, man and wife. They were N both good runners and he assured me they would prove faithful to me. My tent was repaired, new skin clothing and boots made for both the natives and myself, a new stove and plenty of provisions given me and Captain Nel- son got three good dogs for me from the natives.' I stayed with Captain Nel- son for nine days, as my foot gave me a great deal of trouble. I left finally gn the morning of the 29th of Novem- er. I traveled that day as far as Captain Peter Bayne's station. He was very kind to me and I stopped with him that might, sending Tickey back for some little things I‘had forgotten at Point Hope. The next morning I found that one of my dogs had run away, so Captain Bayne let me have one of his to re- place it. 'We made about twelve miles that day, it being pretty hard travel- |, Soon after starting on the morning | of December 30 we ran across the | 0 Mate of the Belvedere. tracks of a dog which came from the direction of Golivan Bay. as fast as we could and reached Una- laklik on the evening of January 1, 1898. I was very warmly welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Karlson and Miss Johnson. They have charge of the Swedish mis- sion. Mr. Karlson informed me that he understood there was to be a mail sent from St. Michael for the States January 5, so of course was very anxious to get there before it left. We left the mission early the next morning in a blinding snowstorm, Mr. Karlson lending me a native to act as runner and guide. On the 3d we started early and had traveled probably five miles when I missed Tickey's wife. On making in- quiries as to her whereabouts I learned that she left her pipe at the mission and had gone back to get it. I felt rather vexed about the matter, but still did not lese any time. We rough, when we came to a headland compelled to make our way over the mountain. After reaching the summit I looked back to see if Tickey's wife was com- toward me, coats. wanted, my impression waving their hats and béing that wife. turn back to meet them. SEVEN SEAMEN RESCUED FROM THE NAVARCH Two Refuse to Leave the Hulk and Are Adrift in Arctic Waters The fate of only two of the wrecked Navarch’s crew is now in doubt. Seven of the nine men who refused to leave the vessel when Captain ‘Whitesides and his wife and tleir six companions left the wrecked whaler have been rescued. They are: Thomas Lerd, fireman; T. Col- lins, M. Hurley, R. Bergman, J. Brem, O. Petersen, scamen; and cabin boy F. Guttner. The two who remained by the vessel are Frank Slater and John Hanna. When the whaler with these two men on board was last seen it was drifting northwest from Point Barrow into the unknown Arctic seas. The Navarch was caught in the ice west of Point Barrow on July 29 last. On August 11 twenty-nine of the crew deserted the vessel to make for the shore. For eleven days they wandered about on the ice, and when help was found only sixteen of the twenty-nine were alive. On August 14 Captain Whitesides and his wife and six of the crew left the vessel, dragging a small canvas canoe with them. They succeeded in reaching the shore, and three days later they were picked up by the revenue cutter Bear. Nine of the vessel's crew refused to leave the whaler, deeming it safer to remain on board than to risk the journey over the ice. Whalers here were of the opinion that the fate of those nine hardy sailors would forever remain in doubt. It was never ex- pected that they would ever be heard of again. Now it is known that seven of them have been taken from the vessel, and only two remain with the ice-nipped whaler on her journey with the currents toward the unknown regions of the north pole. The ship is supplied with pro- visions and fuel, and should she withstand the ice it is not among the impossibilities that the two men may solve the mysteries of the unex- plored regions of the Arctic and that they may yet be heard from. PORTLAND, Or., April 8.—George F. Tilton, the third officer of the whaler Belvedere, who recently reached civilization after an across country journey from the fleet icebound in the Arctic, brings the in- formation that seven of the nine men who refused to leave the wrecked whaler Navarch have been rescued. Mr. Tilton is the bearer of the following official report from Chames D. Brower, manager of the Liebes station at Point Barrow: “The Navarch was caught in the ice on July 29, in the evening, about two miles off shore and carried by the pack to the northwest. On August 3 it was abandoned for the first time at 9 a. m., the crew taking three boats, which were dragged for three days and then left with everything except a little bread, of which each man carried his share. It rained all the time. We were within three miles of water when we turned back, and about eighteen miles from the ship which bore west by south. W& had traveled southeast all the time. We reached the ship on the morning of the 8th, some stragglers being un- til afternoon getting in. “The vessel was abandoned for the second time on August 11 off Cape Smythe, where we reached the water edge at 9 p. m. The Bear was lying at anchor five miles off and did not see us, as it was get- ting dusky and the fog was setting in. We drifted past the William Bailey and she did not see us. We drifted on the northeast of Point Barrow. After abandoning the ship Captain Whitesides came two- thirds of the way and then turned back with the compass, and after the fog shut in we had no way of returning to the ship. 2 “The second day from the ship the steward, Walter Whiting, died, and on the fourth day Chief Engineer Sands went insane and could not walk. The same day'we also lost one fireman and four sailors, whose names are unknown to me. On the 7th day we lost Mr. Scan- lan, second engineer, who got separated from us in the broken ice and we could not get him; he was probably drowned. The same day we lost the blacksmith, one Portuguese sailor and two other men. On the eighth day we also lost another man named Jackson. “On the evening of the eighth day from the ship, the 19th of Aug- ust, we came to the edge of the pack and all got on a small cake of ice, wind northwest, and drifted in shore for three days. On the morning of the 20th we lost the last man, who drifted away from us on a'small cake of ice, and we never saw him again. * “For eight days I had nothing to eat but'ice and boot soles. I was picked up by the steamer Thresher at 4 p. m. on August 22, and was taken to Point Barrow. “The steamers Newport and Fearless reported a ship in the ice twenty miles off shore October 2, and supposed her to be the Navarch. On October 6 Mr. Gordon and some natives started out to her and suc- ceeded in reaching her, where he found the nine men who had stayed in the ship all right. He succeeded in getting seven of them ashore and the other two would not leave. While Mr. Gordon was out for the men the wind came southwest and the ice broke between them and shore, and they had a job getting ashore. “The Navarch was last seen drifting northwest in the pack and is now out of sight. The two men who are left in the ship are Frank Slater ahd a seaman, who was cook in the Karluk at Herschel Island when she wintered there. The seaman’s name is unknown.” We followed these tracks for three days, traveling kept on the ice, although it was rather where we found wsdter and so were ing, when I saw two men running I waited to see what they seme accident had happened to Tickey's The men reached me at last and to my great surprise informed me that Lieutenant Jarvis and Dr. Call of the Bear had crossed on the moun- tains above me and requested me to I went back on foot and after walk- ing a couple of miles saw Lieutenant Jarvis and Dr. Call walking toward me. I walked back with the officers to get a good camping place, so that we could have a consultation -relative- to the 0 OCO000C000000000000000000000000000000000000CCOCC000000000000000000000CCO0O0000000 whalers and their condition. After walking a couple of miles we found a suitable spot for the camp, Dr. Call getting the dinner ready and Lieu- tenant Jarvis and myself conversing. It was a very fortunate thing for me that Mrs. Tickey lost her pipe, as I should not have met these officers but for that circumstance. Lieutenant Jarvis recognized the wo- man, while she was running back to rejoin us after finding her pipe, and stopped her, asking what she was do- ing in this part of the country. He knew she was from Pdint Hope. She managed to make him understand that she had come down with a white man from the whalers,and Jarvis dispatched his runners after me. Jarvis gave me several letters of in- troduction and one especially to Col- onel G. M. Randall, commanding at Fort St. Michael, and advised me that from now on I put myself in the hands of the Government until I reached San Francisco. He ‘also said that I would in all probability be the mail carrier, and for me not to hurry, as both my natives and my dogs were tired. ‘We then parted, he to go to the bleak, dark and frozen north and I to go to the land of sunshine and flowers. ‘We remained in camp all that day. ‘We traveled easily the next three days, reaching Fort St. Michael on the even- ing of the 6th. I presented my cre- dentials to Colonel Randall. I had expected to leave St. Michael on January 10, but Cannuanwar caught a severe dose of the grip, which, T un- derstand, is very prevalent in that re- gion this winter, and so was delayed until she had sufficiently recovered for her to continue the journey. St. Michael is a good place for the workingmen and mechanics this win- ter.. The North American Trading Company is building a new wharf and new warehouses and putting the finish- ing touches on a new hotel that would accommodate 200 guests. 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