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Show homa there to Join his launch, th Sea Woll From the men brought to Seward a story of hardship and suffei Ing, together to-gether with dodged courage almost beyond be-yond helb-f, id gathered. The little party i f sl left the rvre-i: at 11 o'clock on Hi" morning of Jan-nary Jan-nary 7 with a light but freh wind biowlnt; north bj northwest. ThS in creased during the night to a pair that compelled the men to beach ihn boat for I'rsus Cove, where they lamped until morning. At daylight, with a light northeast wind and la a heavy snowstorm, they left Crsus Cove only to have Uie wlud suddenly cor around to the northwest, north-west, and fast ro.uh Ihe proportions of a lo-avy gale. At every intetval that, could bo snatched from the toil at the cars the men were conip. lied to Leop balling ball-ing out the bent With the heavy bo?, that was running the llitlo craft was frisl becoming a mrss of Ice and sinking sink-ing under the weight. All six mea wore drenched throng" and through with the ypray which In turn froze to lee, until they resembled animated Icebergs. At sundown ihe boat reached a Utile Ut-ile shelter off Capo Douglas, but at the same time ran into a mats of heavy pack ice. which soon had lh boat in a sinking condition. They managed to reach dry land at Capo Douglas, but not until the boat had sunk under them, with nearly all the provisions It carried. The water fortunately was shallow, and. nfter wadln? to their arm pits in the Icy water, they connived to reach the shore ice - By this time i: bad grown dark and a bowling gale, was blowine. Swan-son, Swan-son, according lo the others, lost all courage, and threw himself down on the Ice. crying thai he was freez ng. Nelson was snow blind and only able to grope his way about. AVer! ding was so cramped with rheumatism rheuma-tism as to be hardly cf.pable of motion. mo-tion. At daylight the parly managed to reach the cliff above the beach, and there a makeshift tent wa6 rigged up and a fire kindled. All were terribly frost-bitten. The wind again increased lo a bllzjard, and, huddled together, lying Hat on the frozen ground, they passed the next thirty-eight hours. I When the wind moderated somewhat some-what they set off down the beach, and only two nil'e.s from where they had spent the nicht found the camp of Michael Pablov. trapper, with a schooner hauled out on the beach. No amount of persuasion would induce in-duce Pablov lo attempt crossing the i traits Two iv.iudied dollars was of-I of-I fered him, but this be refused, declnr-I declnr-I Jng the alter., pt meant certain death, i a.) he well Knew ihe 1 1: ry of those waters wa-ters In a sMrra Fablov, however, denrived himself of provisions to share with the men up to the time he left them. The patty of s'x remained at the trnpier'ji camp, storm-bound, mill February 7, when they stoned out once more. Bailey led the wav to Kaguak. along the lach. with Swanson, Peterson, Ronnie and Wedding, who were unable un-able lo walk, following in a native hidiirka. Shortly after leaving the camp Nelson Nel-son again became enow-bllnd. and In some way became separated from his companions, and. though they retraced their steps to search for him. It was not until the nex: morning that they found him. Reaching Kagnak, rh. party found au old skiff, which they j dug out of the snow, and Sn this they made their way to Ka filar May, living the entire tlmo since lervlng the trapper's trap-per's camp on whale oil and dried fish , flour. At Katliar Hay they managed to kill 1 a seal, and this furnUhed the first r semblance of fresh meat that had I passed their lips since leaving the Farallon. Hero they decided to make I an attempt to cros the straits, .md In a 10-fool boat they started. Bourne, I however, refused to take the risk, and waB left with the natives. They made the start Feb. 22, at 0 o'clock. The weather was calm and the sea smooth, and again a galo sprang up. and they just managed to make land at Cape L'gaf. their boat being -wrecked. Near where they made camp an o!d native bldarka was found, and after more hardships and Buffering they made their way In this to Ugairek village. vil-lage. There they remained, stormbound, storm-bound, until Macli 3, when, la a dory, with two uatlves, they made Afogna. where the Tahoma found them. The Tfchoma with the four men leaves for Seattle Sunday. 1 six m Seattle. Wash, March 12. A special spe-cial to the Post Intelligencer from Seward. Alaska, sas: Worn and exhausted by almost in-J in-J credible hardships, and hearing the Indelible marks of weeks of battling f w ith the Icy galea they encountered, I I tour of the dautUbv.s crew of six men j I who, on January 7. left Ihe wreck of ' J the Farallon In Cook Inlet, aud. in a I ! sniull rowboat. undertook the desper- , ate task of rowing lo procure relief for their companions, were brought 1 Into Seward just before midnight on the revenue cutter Tahoma. which for almost three weeks has been search- ; ing for them. The Tahoma also j brings word Hint the two remaining inemliors of the boat crew nre alive and safe. The lour men on the Tahoma are. tins Swanson. second mate of th' wrecked Farallon. Charles Peterson, seaman. Otto Nelson. ..e-mail. Albert lialley. passenger en route to Kodlak. The remaining members are: Charles Mourne, a resident of Afog-nak, Afog-nak, who is now at Kalliar May. Copt. Wedding, master of the launch Sea Wolf, remained at Kodlak lo take charge of his craft. Officers of the Tahoma report tor-rill? tor-rill? nales during almost the rut Ire time the tug was oi:t on the search. The cutter left Seattle. February ?! under orders from the navy department depart-ment to nifike a search of the ielands scattered through Cook Inlet In the hope that the men had made camp on some sheltered shore. On March 7. as th" tog was leaving Karluk straits, tha schoouer Matti. from Fyak. was spoken, and from this Bchcrtjuer it was leurned lhat the loat party had been at I'ynk, leaving there two days previous In a dory headed for Afognak. The Tahoma put on full speed and. j reucbing Afognak, found the men on I March 7. The vet-rsel then proceeded J to Kodlak, where Pilot Brown warf dropped. Wedding a!o left the Ta- |