Show REMARKABLE SEA VOYAGE As an illustration of adaptability to circumstances and the willingness to take chances in order to achieve results of any kind of the men who open up a new country country country coun coun- try to civilization a recent Incident is Instructive A little litte schooner reached Seattle on Wednesday from Nome on Bering sea She had made the voyage down during the most tempestuous season season season sea sea- son of the year in the north Pacific and had survived storms which tried well wel found steamships of the he better beter class cass Yet there was not a man on board from the captain captin down who had ever made a voyage voyage voy voy- I age at sea save as a passenger on a boat running to Alaska There were no navigating instruments instrument on board bord save a compass and an obsolete Russian chart of the north Pacific These men wanted to come out for forthe forthe the winter and there was no other way I within their means to accomplish the trip They got hold of ot the schooner and ad they started a with her r They were e not 3 em I Iwho seamen e or navigators 0 simply lm handy m men who were accustomed to doing things thins for 1 themselves This Thi was out of ot the routine but they did It It I is spoken of in maritime mari man time circles as the most remarkable voyage voyage voyage voy voy- age In the annals of ot the Pacific but it itis itis I is hardly that Men of like type have done as remarkable things on this coast and even more remarkable ones For ex example example ox- ox ample many years since two men who had been prospecting in Bering sea made the voyage do down n to Seattle In a two-man two a native skin canoe They had to land through the te surf on the beach bech every night and they did It i drying out their ever canoe carefully so that It might not fall apart fal In the early days of ot the rush to the tho Klondike many men made their way to Skagway and Juneau in small smal sloops or orIn orin orin in Columbia river fishing boats open to the weather When the Cassiar rush started started started-in In the early some men made their way to Fort eary Wrangell Alaska and andas andas as far up the river as possible In open row boats some In flat fat bottomed skiffs For the matter of that a large percentage percent percent- age of the men who went into the Klondike Klondike Klon Klon- dike first In including men who a at the I start t. t f knew w absolutely S I el ennO nothing g about 1 boats or boat building whipsawed out lumber from the forest trees built buit boats and in these boats braved the rapids and bats made their way down the river to the Klondike some indeed finally finaly going all the way down upward of ot 2000 2001 mies miles to the mouth of the river The men who made th the voyage down from Nome in a little schooner without any previous knowledge of seamanship probably saw nothing remarkable in the feat They were used to doing things thing that feat had to be done with the material that came to hand whether they knew anything anything anything any any- thing about how It should be done or not Seattle Post Post |