. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. y had becomequite an evil, owing to the masses of ice that clung to them. In-deed, on the previous night I had to lose a portion of my whis-kers. They had become so ice-locked that I could not well getmy reindeer jacket off over my head, therefore I used my knife,and cut longer attachments to them. I may here mention that, after this, when we vacated the snow-house, our dogs rushed in to devour whatever they could find,digestible or not digestible, and my locks were a portion of whatthey seized. In went my discarded hair to fill up their empt
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. y had becomequite an evil, owing to the masses of ice that clung to them. In-deed, on the previous night I had to lose a portion of my whis-kers. They had become so ice-locked that I could not well getmy reindeer jacket off over my head, therefore I used my knife,and cut longer attachments to them. I may here mention that, after this, when we vacated the snow-house, our dogs rushed in to devour whatever they could find,digestible or not digestible, and my locks were a portion of whatthey seized. In went my discarded hair to fill up their emptystomachs! A few days later, I saw the very same hirsute mate-rial, just as clipped from my head, lining a step leading to anotherigloo, having passed through the labyrinthian way from a dogsmouth onward. About 4 Ebierbing ventured outside to see how matterslooked, but he soon returned with the astounding news that theice was breaking, and water had appeared not more than ten rodssouth of us! I looked, and, to my dismay, found that a crack or. STOKM-BOUND— N Til i6 STRAITS, JAKTJAEY llTIl AKP IJTH, 1661. opening extended east and west to the land, distant about threemiles! The gale had evidently set the sea in heavy motion some- STORM-BOUND.— PERILOUS SITUATION ON TnE ICE. 199 where, and its convulsive throbs were now at work underneaththe ice close to and around us. It still blew very hard, but as yetthe wind was easterly, and so far good, because, if a nearer disrup-tion took place, we should be forced toward the land, but if itchanged to north or northwest, away to sea we must go andperish! Seriously alarmed, we consulted as to what was best to do—whether at once to hasten shoreward, or remain in the igloo andstand the chance. On shore, nothing but rugged precipices andsteep mountains presented themselves; on the ice, we were indanger of our foundation giving way—that is, of being broken up,or else driven to sea. At length we decided to remain while t
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