Show JI A N OLI S SAILORS YAIL A TORY STORY OF HARDSHIP AND DEAT IN N T THE IE ANTARCTIC OCEAN foj A poat C of men left I eft an n ar an A j lana t a I 1 1 calaci esix 1 sax f r tit the kl nat binally lost 1 01 their lir one id or of lle ila caption eldridge of the steamer cath aline me rg g ja is one of those breezy old 1 tar tars jaho who used to start off from colue me new nw england port in a sailing VM ves sel which would return only after a voy are of two or oliree years during those I 1 a enrby thy aud bud tempestuous buff buffeting etin s with captain eldridge Eldrid go saw much that sea rea t abe b e as of interest some of tins lie has told with a quaint at marine candor worthy of I 1 being exactly reproduced he ile says I 1 baw 11 w in the world where three men yere were left on an in bland island inthe in alie arctic this reminds me of a boat crew that was 1 eft left on al an island in the antarctic ocean in 18 1871 71 by ibe the schooner franklin of new london captain lin jamss jamis 1101 II olmes mes master they yera were landed on cape sheriff to kill what r seals cals they could while the schooner wen on a prospecting voyage that is to say looking for rookeries rook eries or places chero si g als travel up on the beach to roar their young well they were to stay there until the schooler returned which would be in ten days at most so ten days provisions wre were given them and when ten days had bad expired the men did not know but the tess vessel ea was lost so they took in their boat tho the carcasses of seals and started for potters cove miles away where they expected to find tho the bar bark nile for it was expected she would sail on the day of march for new lot london they arrived thereon there on the and she had sailed on the tile as it appeared yow now what were they to do without clothes or fuel no provisions or shelter sli elter and a very cold winter of nine ion long dark months As it is so far south tile summer is short say throe three months and whiter nine mouths and summer is as cold as our winter liere here but lias has tile advantage of being all day lay while tile winter is all night they were in 63 begs latitude south well tho the season was so far gone that the few seals or elephants or other ani mab that inhabit this part of the globe had gone into the sea for winter but however they did manage to get a few eeals and elephants and secured tile ir oil and on tills this they lived until spring for ft a shelter they got an au old try works which had been left there by some ship and covered this with snow to keep out I 1 what cold possible and with snow for blankets they lived the winter through in the spring they concluded to go back to capo cape sheriff and kill all till the seals they could before tho the vessels began to arrive then they would make some bargain to take home the skins skills so without any provisions they started back buton but on going out tho straits they got jammed in the ice and had to go back over the ice to porters cove they k would haul their boat from one cake eake or I 1 block of ice to another and launch when necessary well they got back at last chero they started from nearly dead from cold and exposure but however another trial four refused to go but three of them took ani titi ather tiler boat which had been left by some soine other tiler ship and started again without aitho ut 11 lany any food for there ali ere was none to bo be got at so early in the tile spring sprin g nevertheless they arrived then at cape sheriff afterward they killed 2200 seals and spread their skins on the snow to keep them from heating but what became of them will never be known it was supposed oed that they undertook to cross the straits bt raita but could not manage the boat however 1 I I 1 they were lost now about those I 1 four that stayed at the cove I 1 remember I 1 1 1 bertwood bert two woof of their names but have forgotten I 1 the others one was an indian I 1 from lon long island some place near montauk I 1 his last name was garby awl I 1 one by the name of james kill king who was eventually the tile only survivor of the tile seven and his tale of suffering was terrible he ile had to kill and eat the other three three men they were nothing but skin and bones ally anyway way and lio lie could not have survived more than one day more chadwe had we not found him alwo as wo did wo we buried the remains of the others in the snow king then went on board of the bark nile and from front herlie lier lie went on board of the schooner Z P simons and came to new london chero he lie sailed from ho ile sued the company but I 1 finally ho he gave it up and cleared out ho lio one knows whore where now I 1 will give you all the information I 1 can as to why they were left there it was late in tho the season and tho the winds would not permit of the schooner getting back to them so ablio sailed for home what are seven mens I 1 lives ivos to some men now awill I 1 will give you some idea of the place it is in from cl 61 to 03 begs south latitude and the tile land is of volcanic origin sprung up out of blue water and hiding in the tile clouds with thon thousands of feet of snow on top alie rocks are of soapstone appearance thero there is not the cirit sign of 0 vegetation on them not even moss will grow on oil the rocks yee yes there is a sign of vegetation what is known as crimson enow snow but if you take a handful and look at it without tho aid of a microscope you will wil I 1 see nothing in but ii at little red on tile snow but with the aid of a microscope you can see the fine tine roots iu in the snow so it is a legeia ai llo 0 thero there aro are no shellfish on tho tile kocl it is perfect desolation but in the sum summer iner tho the birds of all kinds that Is birda birds of high ligh latitude are hero to breed their young there are the sea lien tho the mother garys carys chicken which is found all over the world and penguin several of them and to see thebe jell penguin iu as the march from their to the sea and back in single file and stand so erect they do not fly they have enst merely a email small fin sn to S sim IM wit with while in the water they just make a hole in ill t enow snow lay two eggs and sit on oil them as 89 any bird right in the snow but nature provides a way out of all these scra peg i it were their agga aaro aro abood ti tute for hens eggs egg new york world |