Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . Ii )N. if three of the men had not been able to grope their -way back to thevessel. Benumbed and exhausted, they stumbled into the brig unableto talk. But Dr. Kane knew their errand without the aid of words, and hur-ried to the rescue of the others, with the strongest men in the almost by instinct, he soon found them huddled together andbarely alive. We knew you would come, they said ; we were watch-ing for yoii. He and his comrades had had a long march to find them, KLISHA KKNT KANK. 511 and had taken no sleep meanwhile,
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . Ii )N. if three of the men had not been able to grope their -way back to thevessel. Benumbed and exhausted, they stumbled into the brig unableto talk. But Dr. Kane knew their errand without the aid of words, and hur-ried to the rescue of the others, with the strongest men in the almost by instinct, he soon found them huddled together andbarely alive. We knew you would come, they said ; we were watch-ing for yoii. He and his comrades had had a long march to find them, KLISHA KKNT KANK. 511 and had taken no sleep meanwhile, so they were suffering themselves bythis time ; did not stop to rest; it had to be quick work to savetheir comrades lives. They sewed them up in thick bags of skin, then,putting them in the sledges, they started back to the brig. This was ajourney of most terrible suffering from cold, hunger, and awhile nearly all the men were overcome with drowsiness andgrew delirious ; they reeled and stumbled as they walked, and finally one. THE PERILOUS JOURNEY sat down and declared he would sleep before he stirred another step. let him sleep three minutes and then awakened him, and thenanother three minutes and awakened him, till he was quite rested. Thisworked so well that all were allowed a few such short naps before themarch was taken up again. But in spite of all their efforts, all but three—Dr. Kane and two others—gave out before they reached the brig. These poor fellows stumbled ou to the last, so delirious that theycould never remember how they finally got to the vessel. There they 512 ELISHA KENT KANE. were at ouce taken care of and fresh, men were sent ont after tlie fallenones, who were onl} five miles away. Two of the party that were rescueddied from the terrible exposure. All the others got well. A few more such attempts and perilous searches were made with ill-success and great sickness, and another winter came and went. Then asthe ves
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