Reveals Secret of Sea
Victoria, 8.C., Aug. 25.
News was received to-night of the discovery of a ship’s medicine bottle at Bristol Bay which tells of a tragedy of the northern seas dating back twenty-one years. Harry Barnes, a prospector who has arrived at Cape Nome on the schooner Bear from a trip to the Kuskokwim district, was the fir,tier of the message of death. He picked up the bottle, which was tightly corked, oil the sandspit on Hagenmeister Island, in the north part of Bristol Bay. Believing that it might contain -omething of value he opened it aud hound a single sheet ol paper, on which, in faded ink and apparently hastily written, were these words: —
“ .July 24, 1870. —The schooner Albert, wrecked in Uivmak Pass; 18 hands on board. Storm still raging. C. McLOUD, Ship’s Master/’ “ Judge Updyke was the only otlicial in that port of the country,” said Mr Barnes to a Nome reporter, “and I handed the bottle over to him to give to the Navigation Bureau in Wshington. as it would give some clue to the currents thereabouts. The bottle might have been lying for years on the sandspit or it might have drifted there a short time before I found it."
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 237, 15 October 1901, Page 1
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