. A summer on the Yenesei (1914) . Skulk in the AMAKl-. Ul ]-: IN THE Kara Ska. A SUMMER ON THE YENESEI 299 September 23rd, although clear, was the coldestday we had yet known. In spite of the stove, theportholes in the saloon were covered with frost ferns,and an unfortunate pigling, one of a couple who livedin a hutch on the after-deck, was frozen to death duringthe night. All the forenoon we passed through fieldsof pancakes of every size, from a mere spot of iceno bigger than a handkerchief, to sturdy blocks whichwere as large as a croquet ground and stood two feetout of the water
. A summer on the Yenesei (1914) . Skulk in the AMAKl-. Ul ]-: IN THE Kara Ska. A SUMMER ON THE YENESEI 299 September 23rd, although clear, was the coldestday we had yet known. In spite of the stove, theportholes in the saloon were covered with frost ferns,and an unfortunate pigling, one of a couple who livedin a hutch on the after-deck, was frozen to death duringthe night. All the forenoon we passed through fieldsof pancakes of every size, from a mere spot of iceno bigger than a handkerchief, to sturdy blocks whichwere as large as a croquet ground and stood two feetout of the water. Some were curiously crimped at theedges; others bore, as it were, blossoms of white rime,and as the Ragna pressed on her course and set thewhole mass rocking in her wake, she might have beenpassing through a lake full of water-lilies. Here andthere were larger blocks of old ice, which had beencarved into all sorts of fantastic shapes in the courseof their summers wandering through the Kara were spiked almost like a porcupine ; others stoodlike
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