. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 238 RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. ! i. the course of this transaction, the surprise of the crew was roused by the conduct of a lady, who had sold one boot, but obstinately retained the other, in disregard of the strongest remonstrances as to the ridiculous figure she in consequence made. At length suspicion rose to such a pitch, that, all courtesy being set aside, her per- s
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history ; and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 238 RECENT NORTH-WEST VOYAGES. ! i. the course of this transaction, the surprise of the crew was roused by the conduct of a lady, who had sold one boot, but obstinately retained the other, in disregard of the strongest remonstrances as to the ridiculous figure she in consequence made. At length suspicion rose to such a pitch, that, all courtesy being set aside, her per- son was seized, and the buskin pulled ofiF. Then indeed it proved a complete depository of stolen treasure, there being no less than two spoons and a pewter-plate se- creted within its capacious cavity. The end of September now approached, and Captain Parry found himself suddenly in the depth of winter. Snow had been falling during the whole of the short summer ; but the united warmth of the air and earth had melted it as it fell, and left the ground still open to the sun's rays. In one moment, as it were, it made good its lodgement, spreading its white and dazzling mantle over land and sea; and the solar beams being then no longer able to r«f<. h the soil, the whole became subject to permanent uad impenetrable frost. Some parts of the snow were indeed dissolved, and then refrozen in varied and beautiful forms of crystallization; whereas at Melville Island the covering once spread over nature had never changed its aspect. A more alarming symp- tom appeared in the rapid formation of the soft or pan- cake ice on the surface of the deep. The obstacle thereby occasioned was at first so slight as to be ssCfircely felt by a ship before a brisk gale; but it continually increased, till at length the vessel, rolling from side to side, became like Gulliver bound by the feeble hands of Lilliputians. At the same time the various pieces of drift-ice, which were tossing in the sea without
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