THE SURVIVORS RESCUED. 615 



Not until 1873 was any further information received from 

 the expedition. On the 30th of April of that year, the steamer 

 Tigress, engaged in the sealing business, while coasting along 

 Labrador, in about latitude 53°, came across a patch of floating 

 ice, some twenty feet square, upon which were a cluster of 

 human beings. On being rescued from their perilous position 

 they proved to be a part of the company of the Polaris. 

 There were nineteen of them in all, consisting of Tyson, the 



DRIFTING IN THE ICE. 



assistant engineer, Meyer, the meteorologist, Jackson, the cook*, 

 the steward, and five seamen. With these were Ebierbing, the 

 Esquimaux, with his wife and child, and Hans Christian, the 

 Esquimaux taken on at Greenland, with his wife and four 

 children, the youngest only eight months old, six of which had 

 been spent drifting at sea upon this cake of ice. The Tigress 

 landed them at St. John's, Newfoundland, from which point the 

 telegraph announced the fact of their rescue to the world, and 



