. 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 . BOAT CAMP IN A GOOD-BYE TO THE ESQUIMAUX. A CRYSTAL PALACE. 619 Once more snowed up,—for the drift built its crys-tal palace rapidly about us,—we remained crampedand seething till our appetites reminded us of the ne-cessities of the inner man. To breast the gale wassimply impossible; the alternative was to drive beforeit to the north and east. Forty miles of flounderingtravel brought us in twenty hours to the party on
. 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 . BOAT CAMP IN A GOOD-BYE TO THE ESQUIMAUX. A CRYSTAL PALACE. 619 Once more snowed up,—for the drift built its crys-tal palace rapidly about us,—we remained crampedand seething till our appetites reminded us of the ne-cessities of the inner man. To breast the gale wassimply impossible; the alternative was to drive beforeit to the north and east. Forty miles of flounderingtravel brought us in twenty hours to the party on thefloes. Still passing slowly on day after day,—I am reluc-tant to borrow from my journal the details of anxietyand embarrassment with which it abounds throughoutthis period,—we came at last to the unmistakableneighborhood of the open water. We were off Peki-utlik, the largest of the Littleton Island group, oppo-site Kosoak, the Great River. Here Mr. Wilson andGeorge Whipple rejoined us, under the faithful chargeof old Nessark. It was with truly thankful heartswe united in our prayers that evening. One only was absent of all the party that re-mained on our rolls. Hans, the kin
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