APPENDIX 725 



message lie was forced to accept the hospitality of Mr. Caraieff, a 

 Russian trader of Emma Harbor. A few days later there arrived Baron 

 Kleist, the Russian supervisor of northeastern Siberia. The Baron 

 entertained the Captain royally and under careful treatment he re- 

 covered. But the recovery was not complete until after he had received 

 medical attention at St. Michael's, Alaska. 



Captain Bartlett traveled as the Baron's guest from Emma Harbor 

 to Indian Point, where he was picked up by ■ Captain Pedersen of the 

 whaler Herman and carried across to St. Michael's, from which he sent 

 the following message to the Government at Ottawa: 



"St. Michael's, Alaska, 

 "May 29, 1914. 

 "Naval Service, Ottawa, Canada. 



"EarluTc ice pressure sank January eleventh, sixty miles north Herald 

 Island. Preparations made last fall leave ship therefore comfortable 

 on ice. January twenty-first sent first and second mate two sailors 

 with supporting party three months provisions Wrangel Island. Sup- 

 porting party returned leaving them close Herald Island. They ex- 

 pected land island when ice moved inshore. February fifth Mackay, 

 Murray, Beuchat, Sailor Morris left us using man power pull sledges. 

 Sent again Herald Island three sledges, twenty dogs, pemmican, biscuit, 

 oil. Open water prevented their landing. Saw no signs of men, pre- 

 sumed they gone Wrangel. Returning left provisions along trail. 

 Shortly after their return east gale sent us west. February twenty- 

 fourth I left camp. March twelfth landed Munro, Williamson, Malloch, 

 McKinlay, Mamen, Hadley, Chafe, Templeman, Maurer, Breddy, Wil- 

 liams, Eskimo family Wrangel eighty-six days' supplies each man. 



"March seventeenth Munro two men fourteen dogs left for supplies 

 Shipwreck Camp. Plenty of driftwood game island. March eighteenth 

 I left island Eskimo landed Siberia fifty miles west Cape North. May 

 twenty-first Captain Pedersen whaler Herman called for me Emma 

 Harbor going out of his way whaling to do so. Soundings meteorologi- 

 cal observations dredging kept up continually. Successful. Twelve 

 hundred fathoms animal life found bottom. 



"Bartlett, Captain, C. G. S." 



The Captain's plea for help on behalf of the men at Wrangel Island 

 met sympathetic attention everywhere. Two countries were especially 

 well placed for offering help in the work of rescue, the United States 

 and Russia- The American Government gave orders to Captain Coch- 

 rane of the Bear (not the Polar Bear) to endeavor to rescue the Karluh 

 crew, and similar orders were given by the Russian Government to the 

 ice breakers Taimyr and Vaigatch. The stout old Bear is a good ice 

 ship and with a creditable record of service from the time she and the 

 Thetis rescued the Greely survivors from Cape Sabine. Since then she 



