Show FAST IN ARCTIC ICE DR KANES adventures IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN A iliin str bcd III vesel it in an luy bacilli ba lilli sleda kilps to th hartli ati Ailt lil lir I 1 nir Corl hl vill inn oy jy Ainer iran arem annote tion i I 1 IR IH jahn J ahn prank lr ank tills lins ro ni mi tic alid tragic fate ja h 0 1 without parallel pan illel 01 in elie lil giltory tory of ili irlue explore JOT l t i and n 1 I 1 dr r val arl r I 1 t annes expedition ja rr for franklins ru re ilef her ha ams 4 r been equaled in ili the lh L field I 1 in it hold 1 of venture of bear cb and alid in the ilo duration dibi aaion anti anil ho he verity of exposure etire and kane kanc puttied hi ins re vessel reisel isel farther firl lier north than llian any lievore or orai ginee iKe and in fat fact went RI flo far annl shili I 1 ko that but tin expedition was nas sent into arctic for ill ills relief W I 1 1 en kine katie wt set out in may as 3 tile tint 7 p knowle fig e of the lost expedition I 1 lu arctic W ivich nh that tit in july 1847 i it chaler had iio the vew Is in ili tile the center of Bai baidins lins hy bay io ivo orel oreil to fin an iceberg and ail liiK in an opening into lancaster hound it II liekna ahe i he adreani of Frunk franklins lins life to t lis crier it norH icil passage kane hane had hollowed followed franklins supposed obed i route west annl fram tit Iiii casler sound with tile the de DC ly in III aba I 1 and believed that the lost party imd had penetrated to till nn open polar gen and peril thed or bivin hi having vin found in ili the ant mills dials of sen bell and wan haill till IlI tUIA hu decided le aided to make for that th t polar sei tle ilie kane expedition was wa s fitted out as c them others cf tile the Pra franklin nidin search series had iwen been by private funds their ve vessel set was t the lie advance it brik brig of tons that had bad bee been I 1 on oil elie ua de haven I 1 rip rill and WAS a good bood iuler ball er ns as nell as a s stanch and easily mail aged the commander katie baue and ten 0 of hn his cort irm were det detailed tiled from the uni dulled t ed states navy ir dr 1 1 1 ll 11 layes ayes went ns keon of the expedition the tha pirty party nuin ber leered ed eighteen aind ILI nil all here uy by bold navigation navi Kilion rejecting the canous of former anti lindine finding methods arid and channels for hini self kane reached smith sound EOll liri in ill august lie he wa ww s in latitude 78 ott off the nord eastern diore of after a series of most wonderful adden lines tuie sand and escapes in trying to boro bore through h tile he fields and of ice tile darios inen tit at last insl found their vessel dry docked by the action of tire the ice in latitude 37 masion mm sIon longitude 40 mins froni from tins this position tile the brig never moed nioca and tile the explorers made it their home for two tiro years lille bile prosecuting their reat be aiches ches on foot anti and tit in sledges goinges far dorth aa lati latitude tittle 1 82 begs 27 inam leforc benik being driven into their icebound dock tile the darnie daring voyagers voya eis hid had a marvelous mir esc escape ape from wreck in ili a terrible hurricane that swept sn edit before it vast hoes floes of ice with bergi mountains high arid and tha vessel in the midst in danger of being crushed bo be t aveen colliding monsters or by them dashed U upon pon the elie precipitous coasts the storm struck them on an aug 1 20 0 while the advance was picking her way through the sound clo dote cloe e to lo tile tho greenland shore where the I 1 ice cc had bad front from the lind land by tidal todil aati action the best hawsers hawkers su snapped ripped like twine when an all attempt Bl was made to make inake fast to a sm small ill island for shelter from the gilo it was blowing in ia shore and fadd the narrow channel was fast doting closing ahead while hile the vessel essel bumped anti and scraped along a ludee ledge of ice the anchors would not hold the elie one here baro resource was tile the helm which enabled tho elie skillful mariners marinero ma to course arid and dodge the ponderous ice rains bearing down upon their the ina gallant llant brig at 11 lit st ii gio group or of boras bergs that ila had acquired powerful momentum of their own were sighted bearing down on the ledge when the advance was gliding helplessly aud and threatening to crush her nt at a blow fortunately it low berg making its WHY way through alio drift came alongside the vessel aud and by a skillful movement an anchor was made fast to it with this rapidly driving monster serving tit nt once tor for a tow horse and an the advance through tile the fast closen closing ellar chanuel actually scraping the ice walls walla odthe of the bergs whid they were within forty feet of the lagged ledge upon it pon w which h ich they were ru it log with a velocity that would have ground the ship to us though it were a shell after this mira miraculous culon deliverance from froia an all awful death tile the vo voyagers agers carried their vessel into a pool of or open water and anchored between n a huge berg and the driving darivin gale so great was the hie force of the storm that the here berg swayed until its pinnacle over hung bung the vessels deck finally the shoie shote ice was reached and then nipping began the shoreward face or of the her berg was low even sloping to tile waters edge and up tip this 1113 inclined plano plane tile the advance x and steadily lio isted to a dry dock being shoved up by loose in me of ice which the s tole stole motion carried up after it the sale gale pasted leaving the vessel helpless in the ice emio lost no time however 11 in the pr prosecution or of his hia purpose on tha tbd soth sota of august Augu itt with seven volunteers lie left eft the brig in a whaleboat nuil anti pushed northward through ielda fields of float bloat N r h A 7 A tag ice at tile the end of a deys journey the channel camo came to nil all end closed liy fly the ice puck pack di dl allvin lying lvin against tile w v all ellof of the ice belt ou on shore the boat N n its as tile then laid up till arid and elio pirly party jill shed on oil in ill a sledge edge tr aeling on oa an ice table along the dills of ill alio llio 0 west ern coast of enlind they reich cd tho the all ansle le whre laiu abl coast line breaks to the east cast with v etli a northern facin dicina Z flere from an all attitude altitude of diw 1100 feet kan haiie e looked out upon the iolia area arci of ice away aay toward ihu pole lie studied the vast expanse by ay te ald aid of it a powerful telescope and 1 l g far be cd c tin almost impenetrable harrier barrier of lecher q that geal ral the slum hole JI 11 simil nl f divri pl frel anil it in li lir ill n P ill mrs search bearch iu in aliu reg region ioel lie lia knew fiust border on the ope open 1 polar pola sea bea with this thia in vil vii 7 be made his wity way brick back to tile the brig avid established winter quArt cra lo in n anticipation pillion of tile long arctic bight ilien no DO could bs be done it and rid to saro sar 0 nine little for or better betler met when spring and eliy da 5 light should return tile the rl of the fall win spent in fit cr epting provi depots on t alie lie lri reen land coast so ho t hil I 1 ra el could be exten deit by tile use rise of logs DORS were hie baid of cutillo still must be bc led fed on proe transported III advance Three depots mere ere inalle ilya by pirty party that scoured tile boiu 1 bindl wt its facings fic ings were northward the gupp liLi were buried in citira 4 ur or ca cai erni and covered with wilh linge rocks to r off llie allty und polar bear from lr oni tile of this party albite in october until spring il tio thing WIL little except to hunt a mal lid fight tile llie 10 lo truss cold by tile llie midd or of december tho the I ILI II IL I veli ve li 0 of arctic Hlll alil iad lisac feared und and midnight anil and noonday were alike nothing buta faint glimmer dell dellwing ning tile the icy icv WIN fr far to the south that llie elie ald arll baa till nn bruor all ali tiro niKl alie harbor lambergs lay bergs of ke ice anchored by f letters or ol frost in ili seas beas 0 of r we ice rhe aho hoole or of the explorers explore rt their I 1 eme I 1 roofed with cannim was mu in ia lee ice I 1 ho he condan of breath anti and stearn forming for till nil icy armor inside inches phlek it ring 1 a I 1 biary and february jhb ae between 49 nod and 15 ile dasi cs below zero nearly all of the dogs per imbed tn tit march carne came the altu return rn of perpetual nal day and on oil the 2001 it a party was wasi sent rent out oot with 11 a sludge to examine the iho depots an annj nor ke new deposits of stores there were bil but t live dogs doaa alive and the men had baj to rit nt each themselves to the lines I 1 eleven levan days later three out ont of the eight travelers returned sinking with fit tigue and hunger barely able to tell of their heir disaster four were lying out disabled anil and frozen in ili the ice with ono attendant one oae of the return trig ill nieu inell was packed in a fur hag with dogskin dok arid and eider coler down casinas casin ss for lor hit his frozen alini strapped str to a sledge to guide it rescue pirly party to tile the unfortunate V 1 ta I 1 ur dr katie led flirt tl rescuers and a f t e r einarth during which the gurle guide went delirious delit ious tie cie of thu ant fereri ferem was round found half tir bained brined tried in a pile of rapidly accumulating dritt drift with the american ling flag and a masnic macinic Ma sinic banner flying from a pole set up tip to ID the snow the stricken s men were taken lack back to tho the brig one afterward dying arid and two others suffer i ing w amputation the next medge was headed h liy hy kaine baue in ecron lie took beven men and penetrated the icy region olt off the boist of greenland Gre epland until erces ive krows blindness scurvy and other obstacles combined with tile the fact that the beat 4 had robbed tire the supply depots planted tile the previous fall forced lini him to return to alii brig one man lied died on tile trip dw dalins ing all ahli tune kane never ceased to believe that franklins ve gels nera mere safe looked locked iu in some soine tidal eddy and the crews in living ining ing upon the meat of foxes arid beardt and of the seal the walrus and the whale lie thou hoof them with hope inability to reach them gave him pain 1 Z it IA I 1 00 at 1 KANES ANES NARROW the trials and sufferings of the party were not confined to those eni lared front from the dismal climate the native denizens the savage and the polar bear not only annoyed them but bin filled them with terror at times tho the bean proved to be bel persistent robbers robber of the supply depots depot upon which the lives of the explorers depended peri ded but were also dan dangerous gerou neighbors on one of tile the sledge journeys north the party was aroused nt fit nil night by a huge bear that t had entered tire lire tent and was no nosing around the sleepers aall A cuto irishman one tom made it sortie to the IT rear ar by cutting a bole in ili tile the tent secured a rifle front from it a chest ont sito ind by the glare of a 1 torch the ravenous brast beast wi waa i brought down with 1 1 I bullet the Il 11 were incorrigible thieves and assumed the right to help themselves ves to anything in ili the caknip this the explore ITS rs tolerated ill ili order to avoid hostilities they rucy also overawed over awed the savages by ostentatious displays lisp lays of prowess and iu si durance assuming as capt cook did in tile the ravage islands to be gods god arid and not met s men another danger was the tha rotten holes in new ice which in rapid bled ing could to no be detected until the sledge broke through in this way nane kane nearly lot lost his life while out hunting for or meat v ath only in an eskimo boy for companion the he ninilee nimble tooted footed dogs and the tha baledge glided out upon a stretch of new ice anti ami more before he be was aware of ow llie danger kano kane found himself floundering in ill a circle of broken ice with aogi cledge abid all lie ho cut tie the dogs clogs free all but bat one and got the boy upon tile ice safely but at every attempt to save him belf he broke through it was freezing cold 8 begs below zero and there was no help at hand A aclei clever er idea came cama to him ind nd like a drowning mm man lie ho clutched at it iod ind was baked one ilog still attached to tile the sledge and struggling to with it had caught one runner on the edge 0 of tile alic ice arid and held it there kana threw him self icle ou on his 6 bick ick in the water and floated arid and then with it a gentle pu puli puh h of his foot against the sledge nian managed aged to work hit hi wily jody up ou on to the ice inch by inch first firs this his lead icid then his shoulders and finally ili hij wily ody part of his weight being on tho the water ind part on oil the stronger ke ice in tile summer of IS A kauc kanc made a vain to go by boat to beechy island full miles distant to get aid from an eug eng lish expedition at that point this tailed failed arid then half of tile llie party decided to abandon the brig arid and their comp companions lill ors awl retreat this attempt failed ji anil nd the whole rew returned anti and were reinstated by katie kane andall and all harida together spent an other danial winter in tire the ice blocked avii brig OIL ity 7 irvi tle camp was abandoned and tile retreat betre it began after a lourney journey tit nf eight four days by boat a and n d on land they reached the 1 settle heuts of bo Athern greenland niland will till the lo 10 loss of only one man ann they N e fre re till all in a famishing atit ht efte it and I 1 hal had lived fur for days on bread dust alltis all tIl and beamut s 0 of I 1 bird meat taken en 1 route 0 11 t t aln r lei r be I 1 ig el iliad lud acell 11 uc d as fuel and they I 1 even boil boi I 1 tor or tea kanc had not found franklin anklin lr but hil hii d danag rg trip turned tile the search into western waters where it was wag event lly successful J L KILMER |