. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . \hiz \i^\)ooA \)s\HOY \) h^Wvk \s»3 1 rved to the\U I . the nignt a thin layer oi new ict; was ioi aung between many of the floes. Thefresh water, resulting from the thawing of theic -ag the day, dilutes the surface of the s. /hen aided by an absence oi wiiiu This new ice was in some * ches thick. ar> The channel made by the Laura passing through newly formed ice . ,,
. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . \hiz \i^\)ooA \)s\HOY \) h^Wvk \s»3 1 rved to the\U I . the nignt a thin layer oi new ict; was ioi aung between many of the floes. Thefresh water, resulting from the thawing of theic -ag the day, dilutes the surface of the s. /hen aided by an absence oi wiiiu This new ice was in some * ches thick. ar> The channel made by the Laura passing through newly formed ice . ,,, acountered .. i V, ..isted well into the .^u i. a bright sun, that continued uii uay ^>.^5.»>v .!;snf>llo,a the :-fr,. We kept ■ ^^w^h closely pari ress. Then • essful short leaa ^ water-way op- north was 1 L only alternative, ;. about us was heavy driiVice, h)^^%j&J^^%,^ tF*^field -^^-.
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