It was with mingled1 feelings that we neared the brig. Our little party had grown fat and strong upon the auks and eiders and scurvy-grass; and surmises2 were rife3 among us as to the condition of our comrades and the prospects4 of our ice-bound ship.
The tide-leads, which one year ago had afforded a precarious6 passage to the vessel7, now barely admitted our whale-boat; and, as we forced her through the broken ice, she showed such signs of hard usage, that I had her hauled up upon the land-belt and housed under the cliffs at Six-mile Ravine. We crossed the rocks on foot, aided by our jumping-poles, and startled our shipmates by our sudden appearance.
In the midst of the greeting which always met our ? 125 ? returning parties, and which gave to our little vessel the endearing associations of a homestead, our thoughts reverted8 to the feeble chances of our liberation, and the failure of our recent effort to secure the means of a retreat.
The brig had been imprisoned9 by closely-cementing ice for eleven months, during which period she had not budged10 an inch from her icy cradle.
Cutting the Ice
“August 8.—This morning two saw-lines were passed from the open-water pools at the sides of our stern-post, and the ice was bored for blasting. In the course of our operations the brig surged and righted, rising two and a half feet. We are now trying to warp11 her a few yards toward Butler Island, where we again go to work with our powder-canisters. The blasting succeeded; one canister cracked and uplifted 200 square yards of ice with but five pounds of powder. A prospect5 showed itself of getting inside the island at high water; and I determined12 to attempt it at the highest spring-tide, which takes place on the 12th.
“August 12.—The brig bore the strain of her new position very well. The tide fell fifteen feet, leaving her high and dry; but, as the water rose, everything was replaced, and the deck put in order for warping13 again. Every one in the little vessel turned to; and after much excitement, at the very top of the tide, she passed ‘by the skin of her teeth.’ She was then warped14 in a bight of the floe15, neat Fox-Trap Point, and there she now lies.
“We congratulated ourselves upon effecting this crossing; Had we failed, we should have had to remain fast probably for the high tides a fortnight hence. The young ice is already forming, and our hopes rest mainly upon the late gales17 of August and September.
“August 15.—To-day I made another ice-inspection18 to ? 126 ? the north-east. The floe on which I have trudged19 so often, the big bay-floe of our former mooring20, is nearly the same as when we left it. I recognised the holes and cracks, through the fog, by a sort of instinct. M’Gary and myself had little difficulty in reaching the Fiord Water by our jumping-poles.
“I have my eye on this water, for it may connect with the north-east headland, and hereafter give us a passage.
“The season travels on: the young ice grows thicker, and my messmates’ faces grow longer every day. I have again to play buffoon21 to keep up the spirits of the party.
“A raven22! The snow-birds begin to fly to the south in groups, coming at night to our brig to hover23 on the rigging. Winter is hurrying upon us. The poppies are quite wilted24.
“Examined ice with Mr Bonsall, and determined to enter the broken land-ices by warping; not that there is the slightest probability of getting through, but it affords moral aid and comfort to the men and officers: it looks as if we were doing something.
“August 17.—Warped about 100 yards into the trash, and, after a long day of labour, have turned in, hoping to recommence at 5 A.M. to-morrow.
“In five days the spring-tides come back; should we fail in passing with them, I think our fortunes are fixed25. The young ice bore a man this morning: it had a bad look, this man-supporting August ice! The temperature never falls below 28°; but it is cold o’ nights with no fire.
“August 18.—Reduced our allowance of wood to six pounds a meal. This, among eighteen mouths, is one-third of a pound of fuel for each. It allows us coffee twice a day, and soup once. Our fare besides this is cold pork boiled in quantity and eaten as required. This sort of thing works badly; but I must save coal for other emergencies. I see ‘darkness ahead.’
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“I inspected the ice again to-day. Bad! bad!—I must look another winter in the face. I do not shrink from the thought; but, while we have a chance ahead, it is my first duty to have all things in readiness to meet it. It is horrible—yes, that is the word!—to look forward to another year of disease and darkness, to be met without fresh food and without fuel. I should meet it with a more tempered sadness if I had no comrades to think for and protect.
Hope Abandoned
“August 20.—Rest for all hands. The daily prayer is no longer, ‘Lord, accept our gratitude26, and bless our undertaking,’ but, ‘Lord, accept our gratitude, and restore us to our homes.’ The ice shows no change: after a boat and foot journey around the entire south eastern curve of the bay, no signs!”
My attempt to reach Beechy Island had disclosed, as I thought it would, the impossibility of reaching the settlements of Greenland.
Everything before us was now involved in gloomy doubt. Hopeful as I had been, it was impossible not to feel that we were near the climax27 of the expedition.
I determined to place upon Observatory28 Island a large signal-beacon29 or cairn, and to bury under it documents which, in case of disaster to our party, would convey to any who might seek us intelligence of our proceedings30 and our fate. The memory of the first winter-quarters of Sir John Franklin, and the painful feelings with which, while standing31 by the graves of his dead, I had five years before Sought for written signs pointing to the fate of the living, me careful to avoid a similar neglect.
A conspicuous32 spot was selected upon a cliff looking out upon the icy desert, and on a broad face of rock the words—
ADVANCE,
A.D. 1853-54,
were painted in letters which could be read at a distance. A pyramid of heavy stones, perched above it, was marked with the Christian33 symbol of the cross. It was not without a holier sentiment than that of mere34 utility that I placed under this the coffins35 of our two poor comrades. It was our beacon, and their gravestone.
Memorials Placed
Near this a hole was worked into the rock, and a paper, enclosed in glass, sealed in with melted lead. It read as follows:—
“Brig ‘Advance,’ August 14, 1854.
“E. K. Kane, with his comrades, Henry Brooks36, John Wall Wilson, James M’Gary, I. I. Hayes, Christian Ohlsen, Amos Bonsall, Henry Goodfellow, August Sontag, William Morton, J. Carl Petersen, George Stephenson, Jefferson Temple Baker37, George Riley, Peter Schubert, George Whipple, John Blake, Thomas Hickey, William Godfrey, and Hans Christian, members of the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and the missing crews of the Erebus and Terror, were forced into this harbour while endeavouring to bore the ice to the north and east.
“They were frozen in on the 8th of September 1853, and liberated——
“During this period the labours of the expedition have delineated 960 miles of coast-line, without developing any traces of the missing ships or the slightest information bearing upon their fate. The amount of travel to effect this exploration exceeded 2000 miles, all of which was upon foot or by the aid of dogs.
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“Greenland has been traced to its northern face, whence it is connected with the further north of the opposite coast by a great glacier39. This coast has been charted as high as lat. 82° 27′. Smith’s Sound expands into a capacious bay: it has been surveyed throughout its entire extent. From its northern and eastern corner, in lat. 80° 10′, long. 66°, a channel has been discovered and followed until further progress was checked by water free from ice. This channel trended nearly due north, and expanded into an apparently41 open sea, which abounded42 with birds and bears and marine43 life.
“The death of the dogs during the winter threw the travel essential to the above discoveries upon the personal efforts of the officers and men. The summer finds them much broken in health and strength.
“Jefferson Temple Baker and Peter Schubert died from injuries received from cold while in manly44 performance of their duty. Their remains45 are deposited under a cairn at the north point of Observatory Island.
“The site of the observatory is 76 English feet from the northernmost salient point of this island, in a direction south 14° east. Its position is in lat. 78° 37′ 10″, long. 70° 40′. The mean tidal level is 20 feet below the highest point upon this island. Both of these sites are further designated by copper46 bolts, sealed with melted lead into holes upon the rocks.
“On the 12th of August 1854, the brig warped from her position, and, after passing inside the group of islands, fastened to the outer floe about a mile to the north-west, where she is now awaiting further changes in the ice.
(Signed) “E. K. Kane,
“Commanding Expedition.
“Fox-Trap Point, August 14, 1854.”
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The following note was added some hours later:—
“The young ice having formed between the brig and this island, and prospects of a gale16 showing themselves, the date of departure is left unfilled. If possible, a second visit will be made to insert our dates, our final escape being still dependent upon the course of the season.
“E. K. Kane.”
And now came the question of the second winter—how to look our enemy in the face, and how to meet him. Anything was better than inaction; and, in spite of the uncertainty47 which yet attended our plans, a host of expedients48 were to be resorted to, and much Robinson Crusoe labour ahead. Moss50 was to be gathered for eking51 out our winter fuel, and willow-stems, and stonecrops, and sorrel, as anti-scorbutics, collected and buried in the snow. But while all these were in progress came other and graver questions.
Some of my party had entertained the idea than an escape to the south was still practicable; and this opinion was supported by Mr Petersen, our Danish interpreter, who had accompanied the Searching Expedition of Captain Penny, and had a matured experience in the changes of Arctic ice. They even thought that the safety of all would be promoted by a withdrawal52 from the brig.
“August 21.—The question of detaching a party was in my mind some time ago; but the more I thought it over, the more I was convinced that it would be neither right in itself nor practically safe. For myself personally, it is a simple duty of honour to remain by the brig: I could not think of leaving her till I had proved the effect of the later tides; and after that, as I have known all along, it would be too late. Come what may, I share her fortunes.
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“But it is a different question with my associates. I cannot expect them to adopt my impulses; and I am by no means sure that I ought to hold them bound by my conclusions. Have I the moral right? for, as to nautical53 rules, they do not fit the circumstances; among the whalers, when a ship is hopelessly beset54, the master’s authority gives way, and the crew take counsel for themselves whether to go or stay by her. My party is subordinate and well-disposed; but if the restlessness of suffering makes some of them anxious to brave the chances, they may certainly plead that a second winter in the ice was no part of the cruise they bargained for.
A New Difficulty
“But what presses on me is of another character. I cannot disguise it from myself that we are wretchedly prepared for another winter on board. We are a set of scurvy-riddled, broken-down men; our provisions are sorely reduced in quantity, and are altogether unsuited to our condition. My only hope of maintaining or restoring such a degree of health among us as is indispensable to our escape in the spring has been and must be in a wholesome55, elastic56 tone of feeling among the men: a reluctant, brooding, disheartened spirit would sweep our decks like a pestilence57. I fear the bane of depressing example.
“I know all this as a medical man and an officer; and I feel that we might be wearing away the hearts and energies, if not the lives of all, by forcing those who were reluctant to remain. With half a dozen confiding58, resolute59 men, I no fears of ultimate safety.
“I will make a thorough inspection of the ice to-morrow, and decide finally the prospects of our liberation.
“August 23.—The brig cannot escape. I got an eligible60 position with my sledge61 to review the floes, and returned this morning at two o’clock There is no possibility of ? 132 ? our release, unless by some extreme intervention62 of the coming tides. I doubt whether a boat could be forced as far as the Southern Water. When I think of the extraordinary way in which the ice was impacted last winter, how very little it has yielded through the summer, and how early another winter is making its onset63 upon us, I am very doubtful, indeed, whether our brig can get away at all. It would be inexpedient to attempt leaving her now in boats—the water-streams closing, the pack nearly fast again, and the young ice almost impenetrable.
“I shall call the officers and crew together, and make known to them very fully64 how things look, and what hazards must attend such an effort as has been proposed among them. They shall have my view unequivocally expressed. I will then give them twenty-four hours to deliberate; and at the end of that time all who determine to go shall say so in writing, with a full exposition of the circumstances of the case. They shall have the best outfit65 I can give, an abundant share of our remaining stores, and my good-bye blessing66.
“August 24.—At noon to-day I had all hands called, and explained to them frankly67 the considerations which have determined me to remain where we are. I endeavoured to show them that an escape to open water could not succeed, and that the effort must be exceedingly hazardous68: I alluded69 to our duties to the ship; in a word, I advised them strenuously70 to forego the project. I then told them that I should freely give my permission to such as were desirous of making the attempt, but that I should require them to place themselves under the command of officers selected by them before setting out, and to renounce71 in writing all claims upon myself and the rest who were resolved to stay by the vessel. Having done this, I ? 133 ? directed the roll to be called, and each man to answer for himself.”
Division of the Crew
In the result, eight out of the seventeen survivors72 of my party resolved to stand by the brig. It is just that I should record their names. They were Brooks, M’Gary, Wilson, Goodfellow, Morton, Ohlsen, Hickey, and Christian.
I divided to the others their portion of our resources justly and even liberally; and they left us on Monday, the 28th, with every appliance our narrow circumstances could furnish to speed and guard them. One of them, George Riley, returned a few days afterward73; but weary months went by before we saw the rest again. They carried with them a written assurance of a brother’s welcome should they be driven back; and this assurance was redeemed74 when hard trials had prepared them to share again our fortunes.
The party moved off with the elastic step of men confident in their purpose, and were out of sight in a few hours. As we lost them among the hummocks75, the stern realities of our condition pressed themselves upon us anew. The reduced numbers of our party, the helplessness of many, the waning76 efficiency of all, the impending77 winter, with its cold dark night, our penury78 of resources, the dreary79 sense of increased isolation,—these made the staple80 of our thoughts. For a time Sir John Franklin and his party, our daily topic through so many months, gave place to the question of our own fortunes,—how we were to escape, how to live. The summer had gone, the harvest was ended, and—- We did not care to finish the sentence.
We were like men driven to the wall, quickened, not depressed81. Our plans were formed at once: there is nothing like emergency to speed, if not to instruct, the energies.
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It was my first definite resolve that, come what might, our organization and its routine of observances should be adhered to strictly82. It is the experience of every man who has either combated difficulties himself, or attempted to guide others through them, that the controlling law shall be systematic83 action. Nothing depresses and demoralises so much as a surrender of the approved and habitual84 forms of life. I resolved that everything should go on as it had done. The arrangement of hours, the distribution and details of duty, the religious exercises, the ceremonials of the table, the fires, the lights, the watch, even the labours of the observatory and the notation85 of the tides and the sky,—nothing should be intermitted that had contributed to make up the day.
My next was to practise on the lessons we had learned from the Esquimaux. I had studied them carefully, and determined that their form of habitation and their peculiarities86 of diet, without their unthrift and filth87, were the safest and best to which the necessity of our circumstances invited us.
My journal tells how these resolves were carried out:—
“September 6.—We are at it, all hands, sick and well, each man according to his measure, working at our winter’s home. We are none of us in condition to brave the frost, and our fuel is nearly out.
“The sledge is to bring us moss and turf from wherever the men can scrape it. This is an excellent non-conductor; and when we get the quarter-deck well padded with it, we shall have a nearly cold-proof covering. Down below we will enclose a space some eighteen feet square, and pack it from floor to ceiling with inner walls of the same material. The floor itself we are calking carefully with plaster of Paris and common paste, and will cover it, when we have ? 135 ? done, with Manilla oakum a couple of inches deep, and a canvas carpet. The entrance is to be from the hold, by a low, moss-lined tunnel, the tossut of the native huts, with as many doors and curtains to close it up as our ingenuity88 can devise. This is to be our apartment of all uses,—not a very large one; but we are only ten to stow away, and the closer the warmer.
“September 9.—All hands but the carpenter and Morton are again out ‘mossing.’
Seal Hunting
“September 10.—‘The work goes bravely on.’ We have got moss enough for our roof, and something to spare for below. To-morrow we begin to strip off the outer-deck planking of the brig, and to stack it for firewood. It is cold work, hatches open and no fires going; but we saved time enough for our Sunday’s exercises, though we forego its rest.
“I determined to try a novel expedient49 for catching89 seal. Not more than ten miles to seaward the icebergs90 keep up a rude stream of broken ice and water, and the seals resort there in scanty91 numbers to breathe. I drove out with my dogs, taking Hans along; but we found the spot so hemmed92 in by loose and fragile ice that there was no approaching it. The thermometer was 8°, and a light breeze increased my difficulties.
“Deo volente, I will be more lucky to-morrow. I am going to take my long Kentucky rifle, the kayack, an Esquimaux harpoon93 with its attached line and bladder, naligeit and awahtok, and a pair of large snow-shoes to boot. My plan this time is to kneel where the ice is unsafe, resting my weight on the broad surface of the snow-shoes, Hans following astride of his kayack, as a sort of life-preserver in case of breaking in. If I am fortunate enough to stalk within gun-range, Hans will take to the water and ? 136 ? secure the game before it sinks. We will be gone for some days probably, tenting it in the open air; but our sick men—that is to say, all of us—are languishing94 for fresh meat.”
I started with Hans and five dogs, and in a couple of hours we emerged upon a plain unlimited95 to the eye and smooth as a billiard-table. Feathers of young frosting gave a plush-like nap to its surface, and toward the horizon dark columns of frost-smoke pointed96 clearly to the open water. This ice was firm enough; our experience satisfied us that it was not a very recent freezing. We pushed on without hesitation97, cheering ourselves with the expectation of coming every minute to the seals. We passed a second ice-growth; it was not so strong as the one we had just come over, but still safe for a party like ours. On we went at a brisker gallop98, maybe for another mile, when Hans sang out, at the top of his voice, “Pusey! puseymut! seal, seal!” At the same instant the dogs bounded forward, and, as I looked up, I saw crowds of grey netsik, the rough or hispid seal of the whalers, disporting99 in an open sea of water.
I had hardly welcomed the spectacle when I saw that we had passed upon a new belt of ice that was obviously unsafe. To turn was impossible; we had to keep up our gait. We urged on the dogs with whip and voice, the ice rolling like leather beneath the sledge-runners; it was more than a mile to the lump of solid ice. Fear gave to the poor beasts their utmost speed, and our voices were soon hushed to silence.
A Serious Accident
This desperate race against fate could not last: the rolling of the tough salt-water ice terrified our dogs; and when within fifty paces from the floe they paused. The left-hand runner went through; our leader “Toodlamick” ? 137 ? followed, and in one second the entire left of the sledge was submerged. My first thought was to liberate38 the dogs. I leaned forward to cut poor Tood’s traces, and the next minute was swimming in a little circle of pasty ice and water alongside him. Hans, dear good fellow, drew near to help me, uttering piteous expressions in broken English; but I ordered him to throw himself on his belly100, with his hands and legs extended, and to make for the island by cogging himself forward with his jack-knife. In the meantime—a mere instant—I was floundering about with sledge, dogs, and lines, in confused puddle101 around me.
I succeeded in cutting poor Tood’s lines and letting him scramble102 to the ice, for the poor fellow was drowning me with his piteous caresses103, and made my way for the sledge; but I found that it would not buoy104 me, and that I had no resource but to try the circumference105 of the hole. Around this I paddled faithfully, the miserable106 ice always yielding when my hopes of a lodgment were greatest. During this process I enlarged my circle of operations to a very uncomfortable diameter, and was beginning to feel weaker after every effort. Hans meanwhile had reached the firm ice, and was on his knees, like a good Moravian, praying incoherently in English and Esquimaux; at every fresh crushing-in of the ice he would ejaculate “God!” and when I recommenced my paddling he recommenced his prayers.
I was nearly gone. My knife had been lost in cutting out the dogs; and a spare one which I carried in my trouser-pocket was so enveloped107 in the wet skins that I could not reach it. I owed my extrication108 at last to a newly broken team dog, who was still fast to the sledge, and in struggling carried one of the runners choke against the edge of the circle. All my previous attempts to use ? 138 ? the sledge as a bridge had failed, for it broke through, to the much greater injury of the ice. I felt that it was a last chance. I threw myself on my back, so as to lessen109 as much as possible my weight, and placed the nape of my neck against the rim40 or edge of the ice; then with caution slowly bent110 my leg, and, placing the ball of my mocassined foot against the sledge, I pressed steadily111 against the runner, listening to the half-yielding crunch112 of the ice beneath.
Presently I felt that my head was pillowed by the ice, and that my wet fur jumper was sliding up the surface. Next came my shoulders; they were fairly on. One more decided113 push, and I was launched up on the ice and safe. I reached the ice-floe, and was rubbed by Hans with frightful114 zeal115. We saved all the dogs; but the sledge, kayack, tent, gun, snow-shoes, and everything besides, were left behind.
On reaching the ship, after a twelve-mile trot116, I found so much of comfort and warm welcome that I forgot my failure. The fire was lit up, and one of our few birds slaughtered117 forthwith. It is with real gratitude that I look back upon my escape, and bless the great presiding Goodness for the very many resources which remain to us.
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