THE RESCUE FROM WRANGELL ISLAND 325 
her wireless that the men had been safely taken 
off. About eight o’clock in the morning we came 
within sight of her. On account of the broken bot¬ 
tom we could not get nearer than a half mile from 
her, so a boat was lowered and the third lieutenant 
went on board. The Bear lent some of her 
crew to help lighten the Corwin; then we went on 
to the reindeer settlement at Port Clarence for 
water. Late in the afternoon on the twenty- 
third we reached the Corwin again and our men 
were returned to us; she was floated a short time 
later. 
The next day we returned to Nome to get the 
Eskimo who belonged on King Island. They had 
come to Nome in their large skin-boats a month or 
two earlier to sell the great variety of articles that 
they are in the habit of carving from the tusks of 
the walrus; it is really remarkable what they can 
carve in this way: ships, cribbage-boards, houses, 
models of men, women and children, etc. The deck 
of the Bear had the appearance of the first of 
May—moving day. These Eskimo had come to 
Nome, of course, in the summer; now the season 
was getting late and the weather was variable, so 
that they did not want to take any chances. And, 
indeed, why should they? The Bear was there and 
the wires were tapped to Washington; furthermore, 
Nome did not care to have a couple of hundred 
