. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . been tlat, ar^ co\^f irregular blocks of Si ■and id one upon another and often eights of twenty and sometimesy feel. ^sant motion from cur- winds and reciprocal ice pr^s from the inexhaustible stth, force the ice ■ East Greenland ice le ArcticEast Greenmeasurr^ across ;en and Nova Zembia Seas they are much smaller. The constantlyaccumulating covering of snow makes theheaped masses daz
. The log of the "Laura" in polar seas; a hunting cruise from Tromsö, Norway to Spitsbergen, the polar ice off east Greenland and the island of Jan Mayen in the summer of 1906, kept by Bettie Fleischmann Holmes . been tlat, ar^ co\^f irregular blocks of Si ■and id one upon another and often eights of twenty and sometimesy feel. ^sant motion from cur- winds and reciprocal ice pr^s from the inexhaustible stth, force the ice ■ East Greenland ice le ArcticEast Greenmeasurr^ across ;en and Nova Zembia Seas they are much smaller. The constantlyaccumulating covering of snow makes theheaped masses dazzlingly white. There is nolonger any evidence of the mud-discoloredHoe?- which we noticed on the outskirts of thepack. The authorities (Nansen, Nordenskiold,and Nathorst) all agree that this discolored iceis carried by currents from the Siberiancoast, where the rivers during thefloods bring down large cjuantitic. m m — ^j-—~ DE^ ^^A ^•Hb *- - « t0t v^\- —, h^^gi^MM !9 J ^^H H ■**■ ^Ik^rifk^ i which is deposited on the ice of the bays intowhich the rivers empty. The temperature is still below the freezingpoint. The ice upon the rigging is quitethick, and a crystal fringe of icicles hangsfrom the edge of many of the floes, where thesurface snow has thawed and frozen. Saturday, July 21 For several hours during the early morningwe were under sail, heading for the northwest,and were able to keep our course with butlittle obstruction from the ice-drifts. Thena dense pack again sent us to the south-west, and we beat about all day, sometimeson this course and again to the northwest,looking in vain for a further opening. Thewinds, too, were most unfavorable, for theycontinued to be persistently east and north-east, thereby jamming the ice more and moreclosely. At 7 A. M. Mr. Pettersen, the mate, sighteda big bear walking over some heavy ice tostarboard, and shambling easily along to the
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