. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . ^ lost ourway. The officer at the helm of the leading boat,misled by the irregular shape of a large iceberg thatcrossed his track, had lost the main lead some timebefore, and was steering shoreward far out of the truecourse. The little canal in which he had locked uswas hardly two boats-lengths across, and lost itself notfar off in a feeble zigzag both behind and before us:it was evidently closing, and we could not retreat. Wi
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . ^ lost ourway. The officer at the helm of the leading boat,misled by the irregular shape of a large iceberg thatcrossed his track, had lost the main lead some timebefore, and was steering shoreward far out of the truecourse. The little canal in which he had locked uswas hardly two boats-lengths across, and lost itself notfar off in a feeble zigzag both behind and before us:it was evidently closing, and we could not retreat. Without apprising the men of our misadventure, Iordered the boats hauled up, and, under pretence of. LOST AMONG BERGS. 629 drying the clothing and stores, made a camp on theice. A few hours after, the weather cleared enoughfor the first time to allow a view of the distance, andMcGary and myself climbed a berg some three hundredfeet high for the purpose. It was truly fearful: wewere deep in the recesses of the bay, surrounded on allsides by stupendous icebergs and tangled sturdy second officer, not naturally impressible, andlong accustomed to the vicissitudes of whaling life,shed tears at the prospect. There was but one thingto be done : cost what it might, we must harness oursledges again and retrace our way to the westward. •St^ .M^ ^ ^ •iL. •&£. -At. -TT- -TP 7f* *?> Jv- W 7^ Things grew worse and worse with us: the olddifficulty of breathing came back again, and our feetswelled to such an extent that we were obliged to cutopen our canvas boots. It must be remembered that we were now in theopen bay, in the full line of the great ice-drift to theAtlantic
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