. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. ct conditionfor the market by March 20th, as they have beenwell fed by their mothers imtil then. They area yellowish white when bom and remain so untilthey begin to take to the water, when the longishwhite hair is rapidly shed and the young onequickly loses its condition. Owing to the exciting nature of the work, atrip to the ice is the desire of nearly every New-foundland boy. The great danger is fog comingdown while the men are sealing far from the ship,and next comes the danger of losing the ship anddrifting about on the floes until possibly de
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. ct conditionfor the market by March 20th, as they have beenwell fed by their mothers imtil then. They area yellowish white when bom and remain so untilthey begin to take to the water, when the longishwhite hair is rapidly shed and the young onequickly loses its condition. Owing to the exciting nature of the work, atrip to the ice is the desire of nearly every New-foundland boy. The great danger is fog comingdown while the men are sealing far from the ship,and next comes the danger of losing the ship anddrifting about on the floes until possibly deathtakes place from cold and starvation. In 1872 one hundred men perished, fifty goingdown with the Huntsman on the coast of Lab-rador. The Bloodhound and Retriever were lostthe same year, their crews escaping to Battle Har-bor after terrible hardships. Scoresby tells us of the classical disaster whichoccurred in 1774 about sixty miles east of JanMayen. The sealing fleet, consisting of over fiftyvessels, met at the ice edge on March the Holloway, St. Johns, Nfld. Home Sweet Home
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