ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC.
'■:'-'■' CHEW'S TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS. • Particulars were received in Queenstowu recently of the total loss of the ,'Arctic whaler Alexander, off Cape Terry, . Banksland Island, in the Arctic Ocean, and the rescue of her crew of 31 men, after ■ ; bein# 13.' days in open boats, enduring great hardships. '.".'... The Alexander was one .of the fleet of Arctic whalers imprisoned in the ice in the •: Arctic Ocean;: since last year,' and for the '■','■'. relief of the crews of which the United y-' States • Government despatched a steamer !-'■ with foodstuffs, coal, and other stores. On toe arrival of the relief steamer at Point Barrow ?t wag; ascertained that the Alexander hadZfoundered;, in Ca fog; oft' Cap© Terry, and that- her crew had been picked :'up by the whaler Herman and brought to ,■ , Poiul. Barrow.*.. -~,.., . '..-'*?*? When ihf Alexander foundered-the w.iv took -to their boats',": and 'were 13 days in .i-hem, having no food during that time but whale blubber. When the boats were fallen in with by tho Herman the unfortunate ; men presented a pitiable appearance, J.df of .them being in, a .;state*of insensibility, ' -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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