. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. the open air. My shoulder wasblack and blue with firing and my ears rangwith the noise while my eyes smarted and myface burned, but I slept like a log imtU sevenbells. The shij) had not moved all night. We were offthe coast of Labrador, but out of sight of was a great deal of ice everywhere and bydawn we were steaming north as fast as possiblein the effort to overtake our game. By noon theseals were in sight and we went through the sameperfonnance as the day before. I did not attemptit with the main body, but with two good menwent off i
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. the open air. My shoulder wasblack and blue with firing and my ears rangwith the noise while my eyes smarted and myface burned, but I slept like a log imtU sevenbells. The shij) had not moved all night. We were offthe coast of Labrador, but out of sight of was a great deal of ice everywhere and bydawn we were steaming north as fast as possiblein the effort to overtake our game. By noon theseals were in sight and we went through the sameperfonnance as the day before. I did not attemptit with the main body, but with two good menwent off in a slightly different direction. Theexpress was certainly a good rifle, and its trajec-tory very flat, when we consider the powder. Iexamined a great many wounds that day and inevery case found the bullet had expanded wellif it had hit anything hard. These seals werenearly all bedlamers and we did not kill anyhoods either of these days, although we hadpicked up quite a number coming up the was a shorter day, and we did not kill so. IN THE ^ATIALER AURORA 69 many. It was quite late when the ship took thelast of her men on board, for they had becomescattered. One man had fallen in several timesand was very much exhausted. However, I wasable to make him swallow some rum and he soonrevived. A sailor is very feeble and dissolutionnear at hand when a Uttle rum cannot be coaxeddown with a spoon or other suitable instrmnent—even then I would not advise leaving the bottleclose to him while looking for the spoon, lest,during his unconscious struggles, he should spiUit. April lltli. We were always on the lookout forthe Arctic, but saw nothing of her. Before leav-ing St. Johns we heard that the Thetis had beensold to the American Government for the Greelyrelief expedition, so she would not appear amongthe sealers that year. Captain Fairweathersbrother was master of her, so he was disap-pointed. We kept north in our effort to overtake theseals, the barometer falling a little t
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