. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. 14 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. Without a pause the departing vessel held her way to the GoldenGate; then she stopped her engines to permit the departure of the pilot,together with several gentlemen who had accompanied her commanderfrom the anchorage in the harbor. The crowd on the steamboat cheeredmore loudlv than ever; the band played again, its notes growing less. AMONG THE ICEBKIKiS. distinct at every pulsation of the engine, as the Vivian headed awayinto the open ocean and left the shores of California fading in the dis-tance. And to many on
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. 14 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. Without a pause the departing vessel held her way to the GoldenGate; then she stopped her engines to permit the departure of the pilot,together with several gentlemen who had accompanied her commanderfrom the anchorage in the harbor. The crowd on the steamboat cheeredmore loudlv than ever; the band played again, its notes growing less. AMONG THE ICEBKIKiS. distinct at every pulsation of the engine, as the Vivian headed awayinto the open ocean and left the shores of California fading in the dis-tance. And to many on the deck of the steamboat, as she returned toSan Francisco, the query arose, Shall we ever see her again ? The Vivian was bound on a vo}Tage to the arctic seas; she addeda unit to the number of those that have sailed in quest of the North-pole. It was not her first visit to the regions of ice, although she had neverbefore gone in the character of an explorer. Originally she was builtfor a whaler: as the whale has been driven from the open ocean, it hasbeen necessary for those who desire his oil to follow him to his retreatin the region of perpetual ice. In the early part of this century, anddown to thirty years ago, the huntsmen of the sea found their prey in thebroad expanse of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. But in these latterdavs the whale is not to be found in his former haunts, and even in the THE
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