Part 36 (1/2)

”Horrible, horrible!” he said

”What is it?” asked Johnson

”Don't you recognize them?”

”What do you mean?”

”Look and see!”

It was evident this ravine had been but recently the scene of a fearful straggle with cold, and despair, and starvation, for by certain horrible re on hu thenized Shandon, Pen, and the ill-fated crew of the Forward! Their strength had failed; provisions had come to an end; their boat had been broken, perhaps by an avalanche or engulphed in soe of the open sea; or perhaps they had lost their way in wandering over these unknown continents Moreover, men who set out under the excite united The leader of a rebellion has but a doubtful power, and no doubt Shandon's authority had been soon cast off

Be that as it onies of suffering and despair before this last terrible catastrophe, but the secret of their miseries is buried with them beneath the polar snows

”Co his coth, and they resuer

CHAPTER XXVI

CONCLUSION

It would be useless to enumerate all the misfortunes which befell the survivors of the expedition Even the ive any detailed narrative of the events which occurred during the week subsequent to the horrible discovery related in the last chapter However, on the 9th of September, by superhu, the extre For forty-eight hours they had tasted nothing, and their lastBell could go no further, and Johnson felt hi

They were on the shore of Baffin's Bay, now half-frozen over; that is to say, on the road to Europe, and threenoiselessly on the sharp edges of the ice-field

Here they ?

But Heaven pitied the poor fellows, for the very next day Altamont distinctly perceived a sail on the horizon Every one knows the torturing suspense that follows such an appearance, and the agonizing dread lest it should prove a false hope The vessel seems alternately to approach and recede, and too often just at the very moment when the poor castaways think they are saved, the sail begins to disappear, and is soon out of sight

[Illustration: Two hours later, after unheard-of exertions, the survivors of the Forere picked up by the Hans Christian--P266]

The Doctor and his coh all these experiences

They had succeeded in reaching the western boundary of the ice-field by carrying and pushi+ng each other along, and they watched the shi+p gradually fade away fro them, in spite of their loud cries for help

Just then a happy inspiration caenius, which had served hiood stead, supplied him with one last idea!

A floe driven by the current struck against the icefield, and Clawbonny exclai to it--