Show I 1 I 1 I 1 raw LOT ty THEY SAIL BAIL 11 KROUGH tn I 1 POLAR SEAS SE AS I 1 I 1 let us ds begin kiy i imagining a I 1 vessel or ar for variety two of them speeding along ai eight knots an hour and heading directly for a lo 10 long ng low margin of ice about two miles off dye adye see any opening cries the captain hailing an officer on the yard something like 14 lead lea da a little to leeward of that iceberg on 1 I our port bow in a little while we near th the IC ice e our il light t sails are got in our commander taking the place of the officer who w ho has resumed his station on the deck I 1 before you in a plain of solid ice is a hi huge ige iceberg and near it a black zigzag canali checkered with recent fragee fragments ants 1 now commences the process of conning such work with the helm is not nor seen in hi ordinary seat seas tho the brigs head bead is pointed f for or the open gap the watch are stationed at the bracehi braces a sort of silence prevails presently comes d down own the stentorian voice of our comma commander hard a 4 starboard and at the same moment the y yarda ds yield to the ready daulat the braces the brig turns her nose into a sudden indentation lad and a bangs her quarter against a big lump jump of swashing ice steady there for half a minute minate not a sound I 1 until a second yell dow downy down hard down and arid then we rub and scrape and jam and thrust aside and are thrust asidie aside bit somehow or other find ourselves oui selves in an ln open canid canal losing itself in the dip distance nee this chii is a lead I 1 v As we move on congratulating ourselves if we think about the thing at all that we are good goodford for a few hundred yards do more a sudden exclamation addressed to nobody but sufficiently distinctive comes from the thenard yard armwell ca call 11 it pshaw and looking ahead we ade see that our cleadis lead is getting narrower its sides edging towards each other it is loosing its straightness at the same moment comes a complicated succession cession of orders helm a port earv easy so sleadie ee ee hard aport a port lford hard hard hard scrape scratch thump augh an anomalous grunt and we are jammed fist fast between two great ice fie fields ids of unknown extent the captain comes dov down and we all go quietly to supper aupper As ARCTIC WALK now let us swartout star tout Vout upon awald clothed in well fashioned attic artic costume the thermometer is say 25 deg not lower and the wind blowing a royal breeze but gently cluse close the lips for the first minute or admit the air suspiciously auspiciously through and mustache presently you breathe breath in a dry pug gent but gracious and agreeable atmo atmosphere spere the beard eye eyebrow brov the downy pubescence of the ears acquire I 1 I 1 a delicate white and perfectly enveloping cover of venerable hoarfrost hoar frost the mustache and under lip form sedulous ped ulous beads of dangling ice put out y your our tongue and it instantly instant li freezes to this icy crusting and a rapid effort and some hand aid will be required to li liberate berate it the less you talethe talk the better your chin has a trick of freezing to YO your ur upper jaw by the aid of your beard even my eyes have often been so glued as to show that even evea a wink may be unsafe As you walk on you yon find that the ironwork iron work of your gun begins to penetrate through two coats of wollen mittens with a sensation like hot water 1 but w we e have been supposing your back to the wind and if you are a good subject a warm glow has already been followed by a prof profuse use sweat now turn about and face the wind what a devil of a change how the atmospheres are wafted wafred off how penetratingly the cold trickles klei down your neck and in at your po hew whew a jackknife jack knife heretofore like bob sawyers apple unpleasantly warma warm in the breeches pocket has changed to something as cold As a ice and hot as fire make your way bark back to the ship I 1 was once caught three miles off with a freshening wind and at one time feared that I 1 would hardly see the brig again morton Mor toll who accompanied nied me had his cheeks frozen and I 1 felt that lethargic numbness mentioned in the story books I 1 will tell you what this feels like for I 1 have been twice caught out buo ouo sleepiness is not the sensation have you ever receive received di the shocks of fe a machine and had the peculiar benumbing sensation of of can cant t let go extending up your elbow joints deprive this thia of UP character subdue but diffuse it over every part of the system and you have the so go called pleasurable feeling feelings of int freezing lt it seems even even to extend exand to your brain its iner inertia timis is every thing about you jou seems of h ponderous sort and the whole amount of pleasure is in in gratifying gratify W 9 ithe disposition I 1 0 to o remain tit nt rest and spare yourself an encounter with these latent this ia 1 suppose the pleasurable sleepiness of the story books I 1 I 1 could fill page after page with the ludicrous miseries of our shipboard ship hoard life we have two climates as al ly at opposite ends of the scale A pocket handkerchief pocketed below in the region of stoves co comes nes I 1 up tip unchanged go ga below again and it flaccid and almost wet go on deck dk again aad it resembles a shingle covered with linen I 1 could pick my in y teeth with it you are anxious to know how I 1 manage to stand this remorseless temperature it isa short story and perhaps worth telling I 1 the otili retains three luxuries remnants of better times silk next his a tooth brush brus 11 for his to teeth atha and white linen for his nose livery every thing else is arctic and hairy far fig for far the silk alkis is light and washable needing neither the clean an dirt ot of starch not nor the uncomfortable trouble of flatirons flat irons it secures to me a clean screen between my I 1 and andreal sealskin seal skin integuments I 1 I 1 THE rolar POLAR BEAR AT hoyie if while working with the krestof ilie crew upon the ice I 1 w was as startled to ailed by ii a cry of beat bear sure enough gh it W was s that menagerie wonder not bo however wever the sleepy thing which with bi be grimed hair and su subdued oPIl dirty face appeals to yo your ursyn sympathies as s he be walka the less rounds of a il wet eidge i odi first polar bear moved past ast us U 8 on the ibe floes a short half mile off with the leisurely marcoe I 1 fearless freedom froe dorp I 1 jae he ans ambear odthe first magnitude about abou t nine feet feel long as a we ve afterwards f nun hi his s tracks his length appeared to us as sull I 1 greater than this toy lie he carted liis hiis head and neck on a line wish the long axis of Ws his hod body y his I 1 clor as def defined ineil th ewhite snow ival wa ade licate yellow not hot tawny hut but a true tree ochre achre or gamboge and ana his bis black blua bla black joae f looked ok I 1 abrupt and accidental 1 his chaunces hau hew were regularly regul aTly arched ana aa supported arted ao as they were cerepa on ponderous him cin almost alm elephantine ele hinline look the movements of the alphi animal bif were peculiar A sort of drawling dignity iee beamed ineA to io oppress him it and I 1 jo to f forbid or hi bi lifting g his august legs higher than was absolutely necessary it ii might inight have been an instinctive philosophy that led him to avoid ovoid the ifan impact of his toes toe s upon luponi ie i e of uncertain strength whatever it was li he r reminded eja i 11 aed i me 06 of a colossal puss in boots I 1 I 1 I 1 bwll v ill not dwell upon our adventures as P on murderous MU r derous thoughts choul rats intent we chased this bear we were w ren an absurd party of zealous zealots zea lots rushing pell mell upon the floes with ditl vastly more energy T than discretion I 1 I 1 whilo walking in the lightest b tr read avei over idas ice my my companion line behind me disappeared re d gun and all yet jet after get getting aing him ailt out we instantly continued our chase chuse with the aid adof of boata at AP tr ter laboring very hard for about three hours repeated buckings duc duch kings ings in water at thirty degrees cooled down our enthusiasm the bear meantime biever raised from his unconcerned walk we saw him last in a labyrinth a of hummock hammock ice I 1 not long efter the crew of the rescue killed another beir bear whon first seen lie be was gwim s wim ming toward the brig breaking the newly formed ice w jtb his fore paws finding his progress by br this method unsatisfactory he fie made a succession coming up dp time nearer his hi assailants who were advancing to meet him in a boat he had a strange look as he rose after one of these submersions breaking the ice with his unwar momentum I 1 printing panting and shaking his head like a dog to free it from froin th the wa ter captain griffin who wo was one of our best beat shots lodged a hall ball under his hip left shoulder without effle effect ct several other bullets struck hibi before he turned to get I 1 away and even when bhea one of them had severed the lumbar vertebrae the hardy animal leoned regained resa ined the floe dragging after him his paralyzed extremity in this condition tion he be was vas brought brou gatto to bay and receive received e d th the e couy coup 4 grace from frol a bayo bayonet net this thi s be bear ar had a C coating atlig of fat round the back and abdomen which measured nearly thre inches when the animal is isi in nood good condition this investing envelope of blubber pervades the entire cellular tissue communicating communicative to the flesh a strong kind and fishy taste pe is is therefore contrary to our butchers tules rules at home most palatable when lean I 1 in the present case we we a e liberally ibe ralty rAlly of his steaks although they savo red somewhat of lamp oil the liver of the polar bear is avoided by the Esqui maux the whalers chalers say that it produces eruption and scoresby who observes upon this as a leucious leui curious ious fact speaks also of sailors having died from its poisonous effects knowing that ae the sea seal aon upon which the bear chiefly feed sis palatable and nutritious throughout I 1 determined to test the soine somewhat what anoma lous ions fact of a poisonous in in a qua quadruped draped and therefore ate of it freely I 1 found 10 ill effect from it on the contrary it was accepted afterward as a frequent dt dish h upon our breakfast table and during I 1 the trials of our long winter etwas it was never rejected by the crew thia idea which has crept very generally into our dyste mauc matie books richardson and perry among the test is probably based upon some accidental cases of a diseased organ it is la at much at variance with sound analogies as with the experience of our party three days after this we had bad another hunt three bears wore were seen stalking over the floes to our left and almost at the sauce same moment three more were reported on the land ice while we were hesitating which party to att attack acle on the land side took to the water ahead ol of usand with a sort of infatuation swam toward the brig bri re the boat in which we ewas not wider wider than the schuylkill at grays ferry some three hundred bundred yards perhaps and a couple of minutes therefore brought one boat within shot the animals showed no fear instead of retreating they bore directly down upon us imagine three huge beasts of the largest size in in our menageries in in white contrast with the dark witte water r their mouths open as is their custom in in swimming and so close that you yon could see their teeth shining over their dew laps I 1 do not think that we distinguished ourselves the captains gun missed fire and I 1 reserved mine for an occasion that never I 1 came mr lovell deposited his bullet in the base oi of the brain killing his animal at first shot but bui while we were securing him the rest turned tail gained the floe and escaped ARTIC TARE FARE we are living luxuriously yesterday our french cook henri give gave vis Us a salmi of auses I 1 worthy of the trots trois freres and today to day I 1 en I 1 I 1 01 1 I i joyed an arctic imitation of a trussed partridge I 1 bear is 19 strong very strong and withal most I 1 capricious meat you cannot can noUell tell where to find 1 him one day he is quite beefy and be bearable amble I 1 another hircine hir cinc and da As a part of my polar practice I 1 mike make it a point alheit I 1 esteem a discriminating palate to eat of everything rind and in the course of my cill culinary inary experience I 1 have already managed to convert several outcast eatables es tables to ti good palatable food seal is not fishy tot hut scaly and with a little patience and a good deal of sauce pi guante is is vary very I 1 excellent diet the molle inoke iti ia the hardest to manage the infiltration of fatty matter is is rather a alarming ming but I 1 give my method for future maitres who may task themselves in these th aae regions r e I 1 ons cut off his breast fling flin ig everything asie else to his fellows who are waiting ing for him outside rub with soda wash out the soap thus freely made parboil and pickle the bird is s after all not so detestable early in the season at the hudson hudso n bays settled settlements eks they preserve him biza in silt s alt sea gull is worthy of bf all honorable men mention tion the filet jot a lar large leivory ivory one bae is a between a spring chicken and our own unsurpassed canvasback canvas back As to these little G guillemots Guille or auks like alt all birds fee feeding dirig on on crast aceal life th they eyare are very red in meat j juicy fat delicate and flavorsome something between d ablee bluewing and a delaware rail 1 in a word the the perfection of I 1 good eating I 1 I 1 this was the bill of fare faie for august by the ath of october the thermometer had got down to a much lower range and the things datable eatable were quite different in kind and the style in which they were served could hardly be e made tolerable evenbay the magic of variety here is our authors description of the festive fea tive I 1 board at the latter date F I 1 all our eatables become laughably I 1 consolidated and after difre different rint fashions requiring no small experience before we learned to manage the peculiarities 0 o of f their heir eban changed ged 1 condition thus dried applet became one oae solid solia mass of impacted angularities a conglomerate of sliced chalcedony dried peaches the same to get these out of the barrel or the barr elout ellout of them was a matter impossible we found after many trials that the shortest and best plan was hocut to cut up both trait fruit and barrel by repeated blows of a heavy axe taking the lumps below to thaw sour krout resembled mica or rather talcose slate A crowbar with chiseled edge extracted the badly but it vas was perhaps the best beat thing we could resort to 1 1 guar 1 fo formed a vary very funny compound take ys qs of cork and incorporate therewith another qs of liquid gutta percha oi or and allow to harden haden this extemporaneous formula will gilve you the he brown sugar of our dar winter cruise extract with the saw saw nothing but the saw sav will 66 su t butter batter and lard less changed require a heavy cold chist chisel 1 and mallet mallek their fracture is cono oae hoidal with haemi iro pore pimpled surface flour und undergoes little change and molasses pio lasses can at 28 deg be half cu cut t by a stig stiff iron iron ladle fork and beef are rare specimens of florentine Flot entine mosaic emulating the lost artof art of petrified visceral monstrosities see een icat at the medical schools of Oo bologna lagna and milan erolin crow bar and handspike I 1 for at 30 deg the axe can hardly chip it A barrel sawed in halfe half and left for two danaf in the caboose house at as 7 deg above abolt zero was |