. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. ructivepropensities of man, as they played around the ships, and sometimes werealtogether more familiar than was desirable. Several times, after diving,they came up beneath the bows of the Vivian, and were so near that theycould have been harpooned from the ship. Once a whale scraped his backagainst the vessels keel, but fortunately for our friends he seemed to treatthe affair as a joke, and did not resent it. While the thickness of the Viv-ians sides might have saved her from injury, it would have been a seriousmatter if he had dashed at her w
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. ructivepropensities of man, as they played around the ships, and sometimes werealtogether more familiar than was desirable. Several times, after diving,they came up beneath the bows of the Vivian, and were so near that theycould have been harpooned from the ship. Once a whale scraped his backagainst the vessels keel, but fortunately for our friends he seemed to treatthe affair as a joke, and did not resent it. While the thickness of the Viv-ians sides might have saved her from injury, it would have been a seriousmatter if he had dashed at her with the immense momentum of his hugebody. What a place for a whaler! said Captain Jones, as he looked atthe huge cetaceans playing in the waters. It beats the old clays of theOkhotsk Sea and Scammons Bay, when a ship could fill up in a monthand go home. Some of em are good for two hundred barrels, and theyreall to be had for the taking. Sail ho! shouted the man in the crows-nest, and the captains dreamof the whaler came to an abrupt CURIOUS APPEARANCE OF THE SUN. 16 242 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. CHAPTER XVII. ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS. — LAND AGAIN. —LA TERRE LAFAYETTE. — THE VIVIAN AT THE POLE. rIMIE last place in the world for a sail! exclaimed the captain, as he-*~ sprang into the rigging, and mounted with the agility of a cat. Itsa Yankee pole-hunter, or one of those Scotch whalers from Dundee, Imsure. Of course there was great excitement in the party on deck during thecaptains absence aloft, and all sorts of conjectures were made, and varioustheories propounded. The captain eyed the strange sail through a glassfor at least a quarter of an hour; then he scanned the horizon in everydirection, again looked intently at the sail for ten minutes or so, and finallyclosed his glass and returned to the deck. Its no sail at all, said he, with a mingled expression of satisfactionand disappointment on his face. Its an iceberg, but it looks so muchlike a ship under full
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