. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. RUSHING TO THE WEATHER RIGGING. REMARKABLE DE VEL OPMENTS. 27 the waves, plunging onward before the gale toward a ragged ledge, uponthe other side of the wharf, which in fair weather formed a breakwaterto protect the little harbor, but to-day meant inevitable death to anythingapproaching it. In fifteen minutes that vessel would be drifting past the wharf, notfive hundred feet away. In half an hour it would be dashed to piecesupon that ledge. Could nothing be done to save it? Brave men looked helplessly ateach other. Lives!
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. RUSHING TO THE WEATHER RIGGING. REMARKABLE DE VEL OPMENTS. 27 the waves, plunging onward before the gale toward a ragged ledge, uponthe other side of the wharf, which in fair weather formed a breakwaterto protect the little harbor, but to-day meant inevitable death to anythingapproaching it. In fifteen minutes that vessel would be drifting past the wharf, notfive hundred feet away. In half an hour it would be dashed to piecesupon that ledge. Could nothing be done to save it? Brave men looked helplessly ateach other. Lives! human lives! Fathers! brothers! sons! Women and chil-. A HUGE, BLACK OUTLINE. dren, too, perhaps, were there. Should they stand still and see themdrift to destruction before their very eyes ? One boat was on the pier. It could not live a moment in that sea,but in the agony of their desire the men and women seized it, and pushedit into the water. The first wave dashed it against the stonework, thenext splintered it from stem to stern, and the third, with a mockingroar, threw the pieces back again upon the pier. 28 REMARKABL E DE VEL OPMENTS. Once more the men looked at each other, and the women clung totheir helpless arms as another boom came from the drifting wreck. Only one mortal moved upon the pier. He came running from thestorehouse with a huge coil of small rope slung over his shoulder. Hethrew it down, quick as thought tore off his clothes, thrust his armsthrough a loop in the rope so that the end was held fast behind his head,and stood, for one instant, looking calmly down into a great gully, glisten-ing and black, between two mons
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