. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. IN THE .WHALER AURORA 151 be so soft that one at once went through the sur-face and had to clamber along in several feet of it. Again, one would come to a perfectly rottenand honeycombed piece of ice underneath whichthere was a foot or two of water, and below thewater could be seen the solid old floe; this madewalking so difficult that I returned to the shipwithout getting a shot. June 27th and 28th were uneventful. Wemoved little, and Cape Horsburgh was in sight allthe time, but on June 29tJi, Sunday, we had a good lead alongthe shore floe and we
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. IN THE .WHALER AURORA 151 be so soft that one at once went through the sur-face and had to clamber along in several feet of it. Again, one would come to a perfectly rottenand honeycombed piece of ice underneath whichthere was a foot or two of water, and below thewater could be seen the solid old floe; this madewalking so difficult that I returned to the shipwithout getting a shot. June 27th and 28th were uneventful. Wemoved little, and Cape Horsburgh was in sight allthe time, but on June 29tJi, Sunday, we had a good lead alongthe shore floe and were steaming fast through itwhen I came on deck. A number of bears wereseen about noon, but the wind was from the southand the ice was coming in, so we hurried there were a number of them, they were prob-ably attracted by some dead beast. Barron tells of seeing once about one hundredbears around a dead whale. He also tells of menbeing devoured by these creatures. In the days of muzzle-loaders there was morerisk than there is now, beca
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