Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner . t it wouldspoil, but that much of it would melt and run away. Fortu-nately, very near our hut there was a small glacier hangingon the hillside, coming down a narrow valley from a greatermass of ice which lay above. From the face of this glacier agreat many lumps of ice had broken off, and there were alsodeep banks of snow which the summers sun had not melted. In the midst of this accumulation of ice and snow we hadlittle difficulty in making, partly by excavating and partly bybui
Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner . t it wouldspoil, but that much of it would melt and run away. Fortu-nately, very near our hut there was a small glacier hangingon the hillside, coming down a narrow valley from a greatermass of ice which lay above. From the face of this glacier agreat many lumps of ice had broken off, and there were alsodeep banks of snow which the summers sun had not melted. In the midst of this accumulation of ice and snow we hadlittle difficulty in making, partly by excavating and partly bybuilding up, a sort of cave, large enough to hold twice asmuch blubber as we had to put into it. Here we depositedour treasure, which was our only reliance for light in case we 124 CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. invented a lamp, and our chief reliance for fire if the wintershould come and find us still upon the island. After we had thus secured, in this snow-and-ice cave, ourstock of blubber, we constructed another much like it near byfor our food, and into this we had soon gathered a pretty largestock of ducks and John Hardy and the Dean provide for the Future. When we contemplated all that we had done in this par-ticular, you may be sure our spirits rose very much. CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. 12$ Odd, was nt it ? said Fred, having a storehouse madeof ice and snow. But, Captain Hardy, if you 11 excuse mefor interrupting you, what did this glacier that you spokeabout look like ? and what was it anyway ? A glacier is nothing more, replied the Captain, than astream, of ice made out of snow partly melted and then frozenagain, and which, forming, as I have said before, high up onthe tops of the hills, runs down a valley and breaks off at itsend and melts away. Sometimes it is very large, — milesacross, — and goes all the way down to the sea; and thepieces that break off from it are of immense size, andare called icebergs. Sometimes the glaciers are very small,especially on small islands
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