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Show CREWS IN NO DANGER Hunting Is Good Wheie Whalers Are Icebound. SEATTLE, W ash.. Nov. 4 A special to the Post-Intelllgencer from Nome tates that the whaling fleet is frozen In neai the mouth of the Mackenzie I if the twelve vessels only about four are provisioned for the winter. The others had int n I i'd to return to San Fran-Is." Fran-Is." The Arctic, howevei was filled with ice all summer and when the inhalers reached the Mackenzie he pack hardened. Capt. a. J Stone, who spent the winters of 1897-98 In the vicinity of the Mai ki nzle gathering specimens of mammals f. u thi soologic&l society of New York, si, iled that there was no danger of the whalers starving He further stnted that hunting was good, caribou sheep and moose being ejuite plentiful; fish and eJ( also abounding, commodious houses on Hershel Island will shelter the crews Firewood can be easily obtained. If food runs short, i he whalers can make for Dawson, about 500 miles SOUth The trip could be made In about twenty-five days. If a relief expedition expedi-tion Is deemed necessary, it can be sent from Dawson, the most feasible being to bring back the crews to Dawson and keep them there till spring |