. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. as far as the Sea Horse Islands. Atthis point September 22, the ice closing in, the Orca was crushed andthe Freeman caught and abandoned, both crews going on board theBelvedere, which was worked in behind Point Franklin and put intowinter quarters there. The crews of the two wrecked vessels weresent to Point Barrow and quartered at that place. The Rosario wasclose to Point Barrow on the west side; the Newport, Fearl
. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. as far as the Sea Horse Islands. Atthis point September 22, the ice closing in, the Orca was crushed andthe Freeman caught and abandoned, both crews going on board theBelvedere, which was worked in behind Point Franklin and put intowinter quarters there. The crews of the two wrecked vessels weresent to Point Barrow and quartered at that place. The Rosario wasclose to Point Barrow on the west side; the Newport, Fearless, andJeanie along the shore at various distances east of Point Barrow andwithin reach of that place. The Wanderer had last been seen 60 miles west of Herschel Island,early in September. Nothing had been heard from her as late asOctober 17, and it was supposed that she was within communicationof Herschel Island, where the steamer Mary D. Hume was winteringwith two years supplies on board. The wreck of the steamer Navarch was drifting about in the iceeast of Point Barrow, and Mr. Tilton thought that 7 of the 9 men whoremained on her last summer had been gotten out DO(/) zOh-tx o UJ aOI<n LLl X zo H CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 45 I had anticipated meeting in this region some one from Point Bar-row, and almost my first question on arriving at St. Michael waswhether or not they had heard from the imprisoned vessels. Theinformation Tilton brought hardly altered the situation at Point Bar-row, as it was understood before the Bear sailed, except that the lossof the Orca and Freeman with their provisions made it worse. At Unalaklik the last arrangements were made about the provisionsto go to Kotzebue Sound, and orders were left for Lieutenant Bert-holf to take charge of the train, and go across what is known as theportage to Cape Blossom and wait my arrival or the arrival of thereindeer herd from Cape Prince of Wales. I was disappointed ingetting the teams Mr
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