The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . Johannesen was ofopinion that the presenceof these birds showed thatthe sea is not completelyfrozen over in winter,because it is not probablethat the loom in autumnand spring would fly acrossthe frozen Kara Sea toseek in this distant regiontheir food and their breed-ing-haunts. The night before the22nd we steamed throughpretty close ice. The wholeday so thick a fog stillprevailed that we couldnot see the extent of theice-fields in the neigh-bourhood of the vessel
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . Johannesen was ofopinion that the presenceof these birds showed thatthe sea is not completelyfrozen over in winter,because it is not probablethat the loom in autumnand spring would fly acrossthe frozen Kara Sea toseek in this distant regiontheir food and their breed-ing-haunts. The night before the22nd we steamed throughpretty close ice. The wholeday so thick a fog stillprevailed that we couldnot see the extent of theice-fields in the neigh-bourhood of the noon we were,therefore, compelled totake a more southerlycourse. When we foundthat we could not advancein this direction, we lay-to at a large ice-floe, wait-ing for clear weather, untilin the afternoon the fogaofain lightened somewhat,so that we could continueour voyage. But it wasnot long before the fog again became so thick that, as thesailors say, you could cut it with a knife. There was nowevidently a risk that the Vega, while thus continuing to box thecompass in the ice-labyrinth, in which we had entangled our-. OPHIURID FROM THE SEA NORTH OF CAPECHELYUSKIN. Ophiacantha bidentata, and one-third of the natural .size. VII.] OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. 263 selves, would meet with the same fate that befell the order to avoid this, it became necessary to abandon ourattempt to sail from Cape Chelyuskin straight to the NewSiberian Islands, and to endeavour to reach as soon as possiblethe open water at the coast. When it cleared on the morning of the 23rd, we thereforebegan again to steam forward among the fields of drift-ice, butnow not with the intention of advancing^ in a griven direction,but only of getting to open water. The ice-fields we now metAvith were very much broken up, which was an indication thatwe could not be very far from the edge of the pack. Butnotwithstanding this, all our attempts to find penetrable ice in aneasterly, westerly, or sout
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