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captured. For six long months the little 

 party lived upon the drifting ice and on April 

 30, 1872, were picked up by the Newfound- 

 land sealing steamer Tigress off the Straits of 

 Belle Isle, over fifteen hundred miles from 

 where they had first become separated from 

 their companions. Strangest of all not a life 

 was lost and, moreover, while but twenty per- 

 sons started on this remarkable voyage twenty- 

 one were taken from the ice by the men of 

 the Tigress, for during the trip a son had been 

 born to the wife of Eskimo Joe. Some of the 

 members of this little party of castaways lived 

 at Noank, Connecticut, and there Eskimo Joe 

 settled down, and his son, born upon a drifting 

 ice-floe in the Arctic, was a playmate of the 

 author of this book in his youth. 



