“Not a man now, except Pierre and Morton, is exempt1 from scurvy2; and, as I look around upon the pale faces and haggard looks of my comrades, I feel that we are fighting the battle of life at disadvantage, and that an Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world.
“March 13.—Since January, we have been working at the sledges4 and other preparations for travel. The death of my dogs, the rugged6 obstacles of the ice, and the intense cold, have obliged me to reorganise our whole equipment. We have had to discard all our India-rubber fancy-work; ? 61 ? canvas shoe-making, fur-socking, sewing, carpentering, are all going on; and the cabin, our only fire-warmed apartment, is the workshop, kitchen, parlour, and hall. Pemmican cases are thawing7 on the lockers9; buffalo-robes are drying around the stove; camp equipments occupy the corners; and our woe-begone French cook, with an infinitude of useless saucepans, insists on monopolising the stove.
“March 17.—It is nine o’clock P.M., and the thermometer outside at -46°. I am anxious to have my dep?t party off; but I must wait until there is a promise of milder weather. It must come soon. The sun is almost at the equator. On deck, I can see to the northward10 all the bright glare of sunset, streaming out in long bands of orange through the vapours of the ice-foot, and the frost-smoke exhaling11 in wreaths like those from the house-chimneys a man sees in the valleys as he comes down a mountain side.
Start of the Dep?t Party
“March 18.—To-day our spring-tides gave to the massive ice which sustains our little vessel12 a rise and fall of seventeen feet. The crunching13 and grinding, the dashing of the water, the gurgling of the eddies14, and the toppling over of the nicely-poised ice-tables, were unlike the more brisk dynamics15 of hummock16 action, but conveyed a more striking expression of power and dimension.
“The thermometer at four o’clock in the morning was -49°; too cold still, I fear, for our sledgemen to set out. But we packed the sledge5 and strapped17 on the boat, determined18 to see how she would drag. Eight nun19 attached themselves to the lines, but were scarcely able to move her. This may be due in part to an increase of friction20 produced by the excessive cold, according to experience of the Siberian travellers; but I have no doubt it is principally caused by the very thin runners ? 62 ? of our Esquimaux sledge cutting through the snow-crust.
“The excessive refraction this evening, which entirely21 lifted up the northern coast as well as the icebergs22, seems to give the promise of milder weather. In the hope that it may be so, I have fixed23 on to-morrow for the departure of the sledge, after very reluctantly dispensing24 with more than two hundred pounds of her cargo25, besides the boat. The party think they can get along with it now.
“March 20.—I saw the dep?t party off yesterday. They gave the usual three cheers, with three for myself. I gave them the whole of my brother’s great wedding-cake and my last two bottles of Port, and they pulled the sledge they were harnessed to famously. But I was not satisfied. I could see it was hard work; and, besides, they were without the boat, or enough extra pemmican to make their deposit of importance. I followed them, therefore, and found that they encamped at 8 P.M. only five miles from the brig.
“When I overtook them I said nothing to discourage them, and gave no new orders for the morning; but after laughing at good Ohlsen’s rueful face, and listening to all Petersen’s assurances that the cold and nothing but the cold retarded26 his Greenland sledge, and that no sledge of any other construction could have been moved at all through -40° snow, I quietly bade them good-night, leaving all hands under their buffaloes27.
“Once returned to the brig, all my tired remainder-men were summoned; a large sled with broad runners, which I had built somewhat after the neat Admiralty model sent me by Sir Francis Beaufort, was taken down, scraped, polished, lashed28, and fitted with track-ropes and rue-raddies—the lines arranged to draw as near as possible in a line ? 63 ? with the centre of gravity. We made an entire cover of canvas, with snugly-adjusted fastenings; and by one in the morning we had our discarded excess of pemmican and the boat once more in stowage.
The Rescue
“Off we went for the camp of the sleepers29. It was very cold, but a thoroughly30 Arctic night—the snow just tinged31 with the crimson32 stratus above the sun, which, equinoctial as it was, glared beneath the northern horizon like a smelting-furnace. We found the tent of the party by the bearings of the stranded33 bergs. Quietly and stealthily we hauled away their Esquimaux sledge, and placed her cargo upon the Faith. Five men were then ‘rue-raddied’ to the track-lines, and with the whispered word, ‘Now, boys, when Mr Brooks34 gives his third snore, off with you!’ off they went, and the Faith after them, as free and nimble as a volunteer. The trial was a triumph. We awakened35 the sleepers with three cheers; and, giving them a second good-bye, returned to the brig, carrying the dishonoured36 vehicle along with us. And now, barring mishaps37 past anticipation38, I shall have a dep?t for my long trip.
“The party were seen by M’Gary from aloft, at noon to-day, moving easily, and about twelve miles from the brig. The temperature too is rising, or rather unmistakably about to rise. Our lowest was -43°, but our highest reached -22°; this extreme range, with the excessive refraction and a gentle misty39 air from about the south-east, makes me hope that we are going to have a warm spell. The party is well off. Now for my own to follow them.
“March 21.—All hands at work house-cleaning. Thermometer -18°. Visited the fox-traps with Hans in the afternoon, and found one poor animal frozen dead. A hard thing about his fate was that he had succeeded in effecting his escape from the trap, but, while working his ? 64 ? way underneath40, had been frozen fast to a smooth stone by the moisture of his own breath. He was not probably aware of it before the moment when he sought to avail himself of his hard-gained liberty. These saddening thoughts did not impair41 my appetite at supper, where the little creature looked handsomer than ever.
“March 22.—We took down the forward bulkhead to-day, and moved the men aft, to save fuel. All hands are still at work clearing up the decks, the scrapers sounding overhead, and the hickory-brooms crackling against the frozen woodwork. Afternoon comes, and M’Gary brings from the traps two foxes, a blue and a white. Afternoon passes, and we skin them. Evening passes, and we eat them. Never were foxes more welcome visitors, or treated more like domestic animals.
“March 27.—We have been for some days in all the flurry of preparation for our exploration trip: buffalo-hides, leather, and tailoring utensils42 everywhere. Every particle of fur comes in play for mits, and muffs, and wrappers. Poor Flora43 is turned into a pair of socks, and looks almost as pretty as when she was heading the team.
“The wind to-day made it intensely cold. In riding but four miles to inspect a fox-trap, the movement froze my cheeks twice. We avoid masks with great care, reserving them for the severer weather; the jaw44 when protected recovers very soon the sensibility which exposure has subdued45.
“March 31.—I was within an ace3 to-day of losing my clogs46, every one of them. When I reached the ice-foot, they balked;—who would not?—the tide was low, the ice rampant47, and a jump of four feet necessary to reach the crest48. The howling of the wind and the whirl of the snow-drift confused the poor creatures; but it was valuable ? 65 ? training for them, and I strove to force them over. Of course I was on foot, and they had a light load behind them. ‘Now, Stumpy! Now, Whitey!’ ‘Good dogs!’ ‘Tu-lee-ēē-ēē! Tuh!’ They went at it like good staunch brutes49, and the next minute the whole team was rolling in a lump, some sixteen feet below me, in the chasm50 of the ice-foot. The drift was such that at first I could not see them. The roaring of the tide, and the subdued wail51 of the dogs, made me fear for the worst. I had to walk through the broken ice, which rose in toppling spires52 over my head, for nearly fifty yards, before I found an opening to the ice-face, by which I was able to climb down to them. A few cuts of a sheath-knife released them, although the caresses53 of the dear brutes had like to have been fatal to me, for I had to straddle with one foot on the fast ice and the other on loose piled rubbish. But I got a line attached to the cross-pieces of the sledge-runners, flung it up on the ice-foot, and then piloted my dogs out of their slough54. In about ten minutes we were sweating along at eight miles an hour.”
Everything looked promising55, and we were only waiting for intelligence that our advance party had deposited its provisions in safety to begin our transit56 of the bay. Except a few sledge-lashings and some trifling57 accoutrements to finish, all was ready.
Bad News
We were at work cheerfully, sewing away at the skins of some moccasins by the blaze of our lamps, when, toward midnight, we heard the noise of steps above, and the next minute Sontag, Ohlsen, and Petersen, came down into the cabin. Their manner startled me even more than their unexpected appearance on board. They were swollen58 and haggard, and hardly able to speak.
Their story was a fearful one. They had left their ? 66 ? companions in the ice, risking their own lives to bring us the news; Brooks, Baker59, Wilson, and Pierre, were all lying frozen and disabled. Where? They could not tell; somewhere in among the hummocks60 to the north and east; it was drifting heavily round them when they parted. Irish Tom had stayed by to feed and care for the others; but the chances were sorely against them. It was in vain to question them further. They had evidently travelled a great distance, for they were sinking with fatigue61 and hunger, and could hardly be rallied enough to tell us the direction in which they had come.
My first impulse was to move on the instant with an unencumbered party; a rescue, to be effective even hopeful, could not be too prompt. What pressed on my mind most was where the sufferers were to be looked for among the drifts. Ohlsen seemed to have his faculties63 rather more at command than his associates, and I thought that he might assist us as a guide; but he was sinking with exhaustion64, and if he went with us we must carry him.
There was not a moment to be lost. While some were still busy with the new-comers and getting ready a hasty meal, others were rigging out the Little Willie with a buffalo-cover, a small tent, and a package of pemmican; and, as soon as we could hurry through our arrangements, Ohlsen was strapped on in a fur bag, his legs wrapped in dog skins and eider down, and we were off upon the ice. Our party consisted of nine men and myself. We carried only the clothes on our backs. The thermometer stood at -46°, seventy-eight below the freezing point.
A well known peculiar65 tower of ice, called by the men the “Pinnacly Berg,” served as our first landmark66 other icebergs of colossal67 size, which stretched in long beaded ? 67 ? lines across the bay, helped to guide us afterward68; and it was not until we had travelled for sixteen hours that we began to lose our way.
We knew that our lost companions must be somewhere in the area before us, within a radius69 of forty miles. Ohlsen who had been for fifty hours without rest, fell asleep; soon as we began to move, and awoke now with unequivocal signs of mental disturbance70. It became evident that he had lost the bearing of the icebergs, which in form and colour endlessly repeated themselves; and the uniformity of the vast field of snow utterly71 forbade the hope of local landmarks72.
Pushing ahead of the party, and clambering over some rugged ice-piles, I came to a long level floe73, which I thought might probably have attracted the eyes of weary men in circumstances like our own. It was a light conjecture74; but it was enough to turn the scale, for there was no other to balance it. I gave orders to abandon the sledge, and disperse75 in search of footmarks. We raised our tent, placed our pemmican in cache, except a small allowance for each man to carry on his person; and poor Ohlsen, now just able to keep his legs, was liberated76 from his bag.
Affect of the Cold
It was indispensable that we should move on, looking out for traces as we went. Yet when the men were ordered to spread themselves, so as to multiply the chances, though they all obeyed heartily77, some painful impress of solitary78 danger, or perhaps it may have been the varying configuration79 of the ice-field, kept them closing up continually into a single group. The strange manner in which some of us were affected80 I now attribute as much to shattered nerves as to the direct influence of the cold. Men like M’Gary and Bonsall, who had stood out our severest marches, were seized with trembling fits and short ? 68 ? breath; and, in spite of all my efforts to keep up an example of sound bearing, I fainted twice on the snow.
We had been nearly eighteen hours out, without water or food, when a new hope cheered us. I think it was Hans, our Esquimaux hunter, who thought he saw a broad sledge-track. The drift had nearly effaced81 it, and we were some of us doubtful at first whether it was not one of those accidental rifts62 which the gales82 make in the surface-snow. But, as we traced it on to the deep snow among the hummocks, we were led to footsteps; and, following these with religious care, we at last came in sight of a small American flag fluttering from a hummock, and lower down a little masonic banner hanging from a tent-pole hardly above the drift. It was the camp of our disabled comrades; we reached it after an unbroken march of twenty-one hours.
The little tent was nearly covered. I was not among the first to come up; but, when I reached the tent-curtain, the men were standing83 in silent file on each side of it. With more kindness and delicacy84 of feeling than is often supposed to belong to sailors, but which is almost characteristic, they intimated their wish that I should go in alone. As I crawled in, and, coming upon the darkness, heard before me the burst of welcome gladness that came from the four poor fellows stretched on their backs, and then for the first time the cheer outside, my weakness and my gratitude85 together almost overcame me. “They had expected me: they were sure I would come!”
We were now fifteen souls; the thermometer 75° below the freezing point; and our sole accommodation a tent barely able to contain eight persons: more than half our party were obliged to keep from freezing by walking outside while the others slept. We could not halt long. ? 69 ? Each of us took a turn of two hours’ sleep, and we prepared for our homeward march.
The Retreat
We took with us nothing but the tent, furs to protect the rescued party, and food for a journey of fifty hours. Everything else was abandoned. Two large buffalo-bags, each made of four skins, were doubled up, so as to form a sort of sack, lined on each side by fur, closed at the bottom, but opened at the top. This was laid on the sledge; the tent, smoothly86 folded, serving as a floor. The sick, with their limbs sewed up carefully in reindeer87-skins, were placed upon the bed of buffalo-robes, in a half-reclining posture88; other skins and blanket-bags were thrown above them; and the whole litter was lashed together so as to allow but a single opening opposite the mouth for breathing.
This necessary work cost us a great deal of time and effort; but it was essential to the lives of the sufferers. It took us no less than four hours to strip and refresh them, and then to embale them in the manner I have described. Few of us escaped without frost-bitten fingers.
It was completed at last, however; all hands stood round, and after repeating a short prayer, we set out on our retreat. It was fortunate indeed that we were not inexperienced in sledging89 over the ice. A great part of our track lay among a succession of hummocks, some of them extending in long lines, fifteen or twenty feet high, and so uniformly steep that we had to turn them by a considerable deviation90 from our direct course; others that we forced our way through, far above our heads in height, lying in parallel ridges91, with the space between too narrow for the sledge to be lowered into it safely, and yet not enough for the runners to cross without the aid of ropes to stay them. These spaces, too, were generally choked with light snow, hiding the openings between the ? 70 ? ice-fragments. They were fearful traps to disengage a limb from, for every man knew that a fracture, or a sprain92 even, would cost him his life. Besides all this, the sledge was top-heavy with its load: the maimed men could not bear to be lashed down tight enough to secure them against falling off. Notwithstanding our caution in rejecting every superfluous93 burden, the weight, including bags and tent, was eleven hundred pounds.
And yet our march for the first six hours was very cheering. We made, by vigorous pulls and lifts, nearly a mile an hour, and reached the new floes before we were absolutely weary. Our sledge sustained the trial admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily94 at the leading belt of the sledge lines; and I began to feel certain of reaching our half-way station of the day before, where we had left our tent. But we were still nine miles from it, when, almost without premonition, we all became aware of an alarming failure of our energies.
Bonsall and Morton, two of our stoutest95 men, came to me, begging permission to sleep. “They were not cold, the wind did not enter them now,—a little sleep was all they wanted.” Presently Hans was found nearly stiff under a drift; and Thomas, bolt upright, had his eyes closed, and could hardly articulate. At last John Blake threw himself on the snow, and refused to rise. They did not complain of feeling cold; but it was in vain that I wrestled96, boxed, ran, argued, jeered97, or reprimanded: an immediate98 halt could not be avoided.
We pitched our tent with much difficulty. Our hands were too powerless to strike a fire; we were obliged to do without water or food. Even the spirits (whisky) had frozen at the men’s feet, under all the coverings. We put Bonsall, Ohlsen, Thomas, and Hans, with the other sick ? 71 ? men, well inside the tent, and crowded in as many others as we could. Then, leaving the party in charge of Mr M’Gary, with orders to come on after four hours’ rest, I pushed ahead with William Godfrey, who volunteered to be my companion. My aim was to reach the half-way tent, and thaw8 some ice and pemmican before the others arrived.
A Bear Frolic
The floe was of level ice, and the walking excellent. I cannot tell how long it took us to make the nine miles, for we were in a strange sort of stupor99, and had little apprehension100 of time. It was probably about four hours. We kept ourselves awake by imposing101 on each other a continued articulation102 of words; they must have been incoherent enough. I recall these hours as among the most wretched I have ever gone through: we were neither of us in our right senses, and retained a very confused recollection of what preceded our arrival at the tent. We both of us, however, remember a bear, who walked leisurely104 before us, and tore up as he went a jumper that Mr M’Gary had improvidently105 thrown off the day before. He tore it into shreds106 and rolled it into a ball, but never offered to interfere107 with our progress. I remember this, and with it a confused sentiment that our tent and buffalo-robes might probably share the same fate. Godfrey, with whom the memory of this day’s work may atone108 for many faults of a later time, had a better eye than myself; and, looking some miles ahead, he could see that our tent was undergoing the same unceremonious treatment. I thought I saw it too, but we were so drunken with cold that we strode on steadily, and, for aught I know, without quickening our pace.
Probably our approach saved the contents of the tent; for when we reached it the tent was uninjured, though the ? 72 ? bear had overturned it, tossing the buffalo-robes and pemmican into the snow; we missed only a couple of blanket-bags. What we recollect103, however,—and perhaps all we recollect,—is, that we had great difficulty in raising it. We crawled into our reindeer sleeping-bags without speaking, and for the next three hours slept on in a dreamy but intense slumber109. When I awoke, my long beard was a mass of ice, frozen fast to the buffalo-skin; Godfrey had to cut me out with his jack-knife. Four days after our escape, I found my woollen comfortable with a goodly share of my beard still adhering to it.
We were able to melt water and get some soup cooked before the rest of our party arrived: it took them but five hours to walk the nine miles. They were doing well, and, considering the circumstances, in wonderful spirits. The day was almost providentially windless, with a clear sun. All enjoyed the refreshment110 we had got ready: the crippled were repacked in their robes; and we sped briskly toward the hummock-ridges which lay between us and the Pinnacly Berg.
It required desperate efforts to work our way over it—literally desperate, for our strength failed us anew, and we began to lose our self-control. We could not abstain111 any longer from eating snow; our mouths swelled112, and some of us became speechless.
Our halts multiplied, and we fell half-sleeping on the snow. I could not prevent it. Strange to say, it refreshed us. I ventured upon the experiment myself, making Riley wake me at the end of three minutes; and I felt so much benefited by it that I timed the men in the same way. They sat on the runners of the sledge, fell asleep instantly, and were forced to wakefulness when their three minutes were out.
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By eight in the evening we emerged from the floes. The Bight of Pinnacly Berg revived us. Brandy, an invaluable113 resource in emergency, had already been served out in table-spoonful doses. We now took a longer rest, and a last but stouter114 dram, and reached the brig at 1 P.M., we believe without a halt.
Mental Failure
I say we believe; and here perhaps is the most decided115 proof of our sufferings; we were quite delirious116, and had ceased to entertain a sane117 apprehension of the circumstances about us. We moved on like men in a dream. Our footmarks seen afterward showed that we had steered118 a straight line for the brig. It must have been by a sort of instinct, for it left no impress on the memory. Bonsall was sent staggering ahead, and reached the brig, God knows how, for he had fallen repeatedly at the track-lines; but he delivered with punctilious119 accuracy the messages I had sent by him to Dr Hayes. I thought myself the soundest of all, for I went through all the formula of sanity120, and can recall the muttering delirium121 of my comrades when we got back into the cabin of our brig. Yet I have been told since of some speeches and some orders too of mine, which I should have remembered for their absurdity122, if my mind had retained its balance.
Petersen and Whipple came out to meet us about two miles from the brig. They brought my dog-team, with the restoratives I had sent for by Bonsall. I do not remember their coming. Dr Hayes entered with judicious123 energy upon the treatment our condition called for, administering morphine freely, after the usual frictions124. He reported none of our brain-symptoms as serious, referring them properly to the class of those indications of exhausted125 power which yield to generous diet and rest. Mr Ohlsen suffered some time from strabismus and blindness; two ? 74 ? others underwent amputation126 of parts of the foot without unpleasant consequences, and two died in spite of all our efforts. This rescue-party had been out for seventy-two hours. We had halted in all eight hours, half of our number sleeping at a time. We travelled between eighty and ninety miles, most of the way dragging a heavy sledge. The mean temperature of the whole time, including the warmest hours of three days, was at -41°·2. We had no water except at our halts, and were at no time able to intermit vigorous exercise without freezing.
“April 4.—Four days have passed, and I am again at my record of failures, sound, but aching still in every joint127. The rescued men are not out of danger, but their gratitude is very touching128. Pray God that they may live!”
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