. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. THE CABIN OK THE SNOWBIRD. 50 CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. And Scott and Roy were quite sailors enough themselves to wishthat it had not happened. We are ten days behind the Louise Scott said, as the men hauledup the anchor, and they all worked together setting sail. It may be twenty, or it may be more, by the time we reach Green-. A HAWK DROPPED DEAD UPON THE DECK. land, Roy replied ; and Scott, as he caught his eye, turned instinctivelyto the spot where the hawk fell. A light breeze set in from the sea as they worked their way o
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. THE CABIN OK THE SNOWBIRD. 50 CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. And Scott and Roy were quite sailors enough themselves to wishthat it had not happened. We are ten days behind the Louise Scott said, as the men hauledup the anchor, and they all worked together setting sail. It may be twenty, or it may be more, by the time we reach Green-. A HAWK DROPPED DEAD UPON THE DECK. land, Roy replied ; and Scott, as he caught his eye, turned instinctivelyto the spot where the hawk fell. A light breeze set in from the sea as they worked their way out ofthe narrow inlet, and the great cliffs, the wave-washed ledges and themoss-green coves of Newfoundland quickly sank into a dense fog behindthem, while the moonlight still lay, white and beautiful, over the sea. Both of the boys were serious and thoughtful that night. They hadleft behind them the last point of land with which they had ever beenfamiliar. The} were strangers now, in a world full of uncertainty. The sea breeze continued and increased. Morning dawned at twooclock, and Scotts first work on coming- on deck for his watch, was to CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. 51 take in At night a little more sail was taken in, and the third nightthey were scudding along, careened almost to the water with only asingle sail and jib. They had passed several lumps of ice of varying size, which,
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