MY MOST EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
ADRIFT ON THE ICE.
Though I had left the son some years before the event I am about to narrato took place, it occurred
on the old familiar oloinent and many of your readers on the coast will doubtless remember it.
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grow bigger and there scomod some clanco of gotting on one and drifting across with the help of such paddling as we could do with
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ing to decido what wo should do when down the channel camo a long narrow strip of ico,. floating lengthways with one point nearly stood. We stood watching the touching the bank on which wo
long, narrow floating island of ies as it gradually drifted down the I was a pussonger, together brand stream when suddenly it with a lieutenant of the Royal soomed to slow down and ono ond Engineers, on the stormer Kwangwung slowly toward us. Thon chi for Chingwantno in the win- como a jar as the point jammed tor of 1900, when we got blocked in the ico at our foot and the by ice at a distance, as it
other and swung round until it ed to us, of about five miles from rostod against the ice on the other side. The huge floo lind tho shoro.
Away across the rugged ice got across the channel and was flores lay the land, with villages Forming a natural bridge at our hero and thoro standing out liko voy-feet. Wo saw it could not islands in a surf swept son, close last long, for smaller floon were drifting down on it and already but inaccessible. The passengers sat in the smoke-roon and cursed; it was cracking and groaning the captain shut himself up inminously at tly onds where it the cluart-room and cursed; the lay jammed in the ico-folds. In Chinese crew wrapped their an instant we had leapt on to the wadded clothing tightor round floo and were running for all wo them and cursod also. Even were worth, and just a moment cursing gets monotonous after a before it and swung clear again, time and at midday, na thero wo had landed on the opposito seemed no prospoet of further side and wore safe. In a little progress being made for a time while we were at Rocky Point, at any rate, I suggested a 25 hours after we had left the walk on the ice. Encouraged ship, and had made our way to by the progress wo mundo, to nearest military station, a conceived the idea of walking dettelmont of the Fourth Punjab nshore and was joined in this pro-
Infantry, ject by the army man who wa anxious to report himself for duty in time to qualify for a China war medal.
"We'll send out coolies to carry our luggage shore," we told the captain, confidently, as we slipped over the side.
Wo hitched ourselves together with a rope we had provided and started on
our journey. Our impression con' starting was that the shore was fivo miles away, but wlion, after innumerable falls, wo had covered that distance, we foinel ourselves on the edge of a broad channel of water, and on the other side stretched another five milesof brokenicound beyond that the shore. We lnd failed and there was nothing for it but to return to the ship. Away in the distance, over the hillocks of jeo, wore the black spors of a ship,
but as we drow nearer wo mado
The Kwangchi, wo learned, had got clear soon after wo loft and had managed to thread hor her way through a channel of | □pon water which she had dis- covered in the ice to Chinwanging where, finding wo had not arrived, and seeing the ice had commenced to bronk up, wo wore given up as lost and our offects landed at the Engineering Company's offices.
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A day or two in hospital jut me right, though any companion was not so fortunate, having suffered sovorely from frost bites, 081] but neither of us nro likely to forget that night spent on the drift ico in the Gulf of Pechili exposed to the full fury of the North China wintor gales." "Loading Light.",
CURING BY CHARMS.
these out to be the fighting tops | REMARKABLE OREDULITY
of a man-of-war. Our own REVEALED BY
ship had gone and we could
just nunko iter out
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listance away standing in for
ohannal that promised some During the discussion of the chance of making the port. new law for the control of charlat- The sun had gone and the winds and other quacks in the com- was working round to the north-mittee of the Reichstag, several de- ward presaging the broaking up putios displayed an extraordinary of the floos. In desperation we degroo of credulity, and even signalled to her from our posi- superstition. tion on the ico, but sho did not A conservative member, who soe us and long before wo could | is a farmor, declared that ho get nearor she had gone. Turning, himself had seen numerous en808 we made another attempt to reach of animals being healed by in- tho shore but had not gone far cantations or charma. He added when with a crash the ice opened that the recitor sometimes turned and through I wont. Fortunately sick whilst incanting, the rope enabled my companion ta pull me out again, but tho ducking that numerous cases of romark- A clorical representative said did not help to restore my spiritsallo cures to which the Act would and, with my clothing freezing, web applicable lay on the border staggered on toward Rocky Point line between facts and superstition that could be just made out in the especially at tho pilgrimage distance. Two biscuits and a rosorts. mouthful of brandy was all the rc- froshuments wo land on leaving, for the brandy flask my companion carried had been leaking unob sorved, and this was now all gone, Boforo wo had covered another milo my companion had gone through the ice up to his armpits and it was somo time before could pull him out of the froozing water. When I did succeed, the struggle had so exhausted us both that we lay down side by side on the ice and slept.
It aust have been near mid-
An official representative of the Clorornmont doclared all this talk of charins and phrases about sympathetic 'sug- gestion and so on were the morost quackory, and really a kind of modern witchcraft. It was a fact that many young girls word proyed upon by self-styled přo- fessors of failli-cure and mag- netism, and there was actually in Germany, a largo establishment for teaching girls faith-healing.
In answer to Conservativa interruptions the Governmont specialist land to insist that there was no such thing as animal magnotism. As for all theso "mystic processed" the Govorn ment
night when we woke up again, and on we loundered till wo found it useless to proceed with out daylight, so we took it in turns to rest, one watching and waking the other when the ice had chilled him through and he was in danger of drifting into that sleep He
assorted thist they word all directly fraudulent, quoted instances ...of
from which there is no waking, supposed cures for cancer for With the first glimmer of dawn which the unhappy victim had we were up again, weak and paid as much as £300. weary, But struggling on toward
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doctors had given up.. more. Fifty yards of clear bluo Finally, the committee adopt-⠀⠀, water and beyond that the beached resolutions recommending the of Rockyoint, We stood on Reichstag to forbid professional the edge talking in a hopeless treatment of sick persons by faith sort bleway of our chances of ouro, charms, spiritism, and so getting over it which down the on, though it refused to extend channelsme two sortlures small this probibition to treatment Jon Loon Gradually the floos" magnetism":
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