Show found in the ice ey QUAD AD i copyright 1914 by associated assoni ineil lit arary press on the ath day of octol ei 18 2 1 th the ship princess printess left kust australia ralia with nith a cargo of wool and other art articles les i valued a aed at she had in her treasure room gold in dust bars and coin a ate gating 1 she w as nevel heard fl aiom om in june 1808 1868 eighteen years after the loss of the princess I 1 was one of the crew of the boston whaler tails tain man an which was nas trying to ing the cruising ground on the south of cape hoi n we had had a fair run of luck when we got a gale from the coith which lasted for four das and nights with mith out a break this dhove di ove us aw iv i v south among the ice and on a dozen t occasions lons the ship was within a h ill tit s breadth of being cast aw am iv or over m helmed whelmed after fter the to fo nth ath day dav of the gale there BIS N is a calm fasth g thirty hours during this interval intel inte val ival the tills ill all lav between two bonstel icebergs with h hei ei boats down and read to to v her tier ait oit 0 it of the v w ly should tl ti ei e do to e in on her then we got a strod strong breece from the east eist sometimes we lay mooned to a berg for several turns hints again we me wen werl pounding among the great ikes of ice which threatened evera ever i comei t to crush in hei liel bides sides ve e had b en ell dih di ij ing to the southeast sou theist foi fol aliee dis das when the breeze fell and left bs on i t heaving sea with a I 1 lberg about two miles away to tl e souti the ship had thus far sustained little damage but the clew d with the hard work and constant N egl igi lance the men were ghen glien an all days rest and no incident until late in the afternoon ahe miss of ice had a front a mile long on oui out side with an average he abt of feet what its width was we could not sa we were astonished to see smoke ils its ing from the far side of it no one doubted that it came from a fire lighted by shipwrecked ballots who hid caught sight of the tallyman talisman and wen making her a signal the third mate and men wele ordered off in one of the whale whaleboats boits to investigate and I 1 was one of the three selected we took with us a breaker of fresh water a bottle of rum bre id meat blankets a boat compass aud a lantern and darkness fell as we p allea away from the ship we pulled to pass the western faal of the berg and found it to be about half a mile long As we beachel i cache 1 its southern limit and turned to the east we caught sight of a sn sa all fire on a ledge edge about feet above the wi wt cias soon as we got up to it the mate hailed and was promptly eiel ciel that there were two men on the ledge one of whom had a broken leg there upon I 1 was ordered to lebain ba b th boat and hold on while the mate ii 11 I 1 the two men landed on the be g ind began making their way ray up to the thi ledge twenty minutes later the berg split a fog settled down and with it came i breeze I 1 did not know what to do and so I 1 laid in my oai oat w m ral p d my self in a blanket and sat down in the bottom of the boat you will thu thil k it that I 1 fell asleep andel the cir cum stances but that Is exactly what happened nor did I 1 wake nike until d y light came again then I 1 found mv self in an ice floe which wis d efting to the south at the late ate i of about three thre e miles an hour I 1 am not at tit all sure how long I 1 d dilot ift ed but the general direction n was as so ith and the time was at least foul dis d is and nights night on the morning of what was probably the fifth d iy ay I 1 awoke to find that the floe had ceased drifting and a quarter of a mile to the east of the boat was a mass of ice fee it was a mile or more in length and not 0 er thirty feet high and looked more like a wall resting on oil the w m iter the ice was yellow and clity with rocks embedded in it lere and there and I 1 have no doubt that a good por tion of it was the lower part of an iceberg which had turned turtle be tween me and the wall was a jumble of ice over which it beeme I 1 impossible to make my way but as soon as I 1 had broken my fast I 1 set out to try it it took me a full hour to make that thit ter of a mile but at length I 1 reachel the wall and found that I 1 could easily get up its rough side when I 1 reached the top it was to di discover geover tbt the mass of ice was almost a cube with a t great hollow in its surface to remind one of the crater of a volcano in the center of this hollow lay a mass of wreckage and after t long stare half believing my eyes deceived me I 1 slid down and began in tion 0 no o one will eer ener see a more curious eight sight A space several him bull dred feet square was covered with boolen brol en masts yards beams planks boards ropes blocks and sails k large ship had here suffered destruct i n how I 1 could not determine but it seem seemed ed to me as if a great body of lu b had bid id fallen on it as she sho rested 1 in tl tt c enter criter to no other force unless gun powder could hae hane so wrecked aid scattered her about some of tl e wre I 1 age bore the name I late in the afternoon the floe began ato to break up tip and I 1 g t I 1 lack ack to ni boat bv night there w et e I 1 ies I 1 es f water in ederr d and a stion tion breedi set met in from the souti I 1 dr aftel to the north all that thit t ni I 1 1 11 tl tie e next day but as the second night came on I 1 was up by the scotch whaler jeannette which n hah ha I 1 captured and was mas cutting in a wl ale and months later was mas landed at her hoac port |