. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. s about men being lost. One fellow came onboard and stated that he had seen so and so twomiles from the ship, unable to proceed. Somenun was given to him and with a couple of othershe started off to bring the exhausted one in. Allwere on board safely by nine P. M. There was nodoubt but that often the rum served out found itsway into throats that were far from being tooweak to swallow, but such dreadful accidents haveoccurred that one acts on the safe side. There wasno abuse of liquor on board the Aurora, but theCaptain did not hesitate to supply i
. A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora. s about men being lost. One fellow came onboard and stated that he had seen so and so twomiles from the ship, unable to proceed. Somenun was given to him and with a couple of othershe started off to bring the exhausted one in. Allwere on board safely by nine P. M. There was nodoubt but that often the rum served out found itsway into throats that were far from being tooweak to swallow, but such dreadful accidents haveoccurred that one acts on the safe side. There wasno abuse of liquor on board the Aurora, but theCaptain did not hesitate to supply it when abso-lutely necessary. March 19tli. A nice day for sealing, as therewas no difficulty getting about to the pans. Webrought on board about two thousand, and theship was practically full. Now we began to clearout the tween-decks and to throw the mensbunks overboard. They did not object to a fewdays of supreme discomfort because they receivedone-third of the catch. We had the bunkers filledwith coal and a lot of sacks piled upon the poop,. llolioway, .St. Johns, Nfld. Hauling Sculps over the Ice IN THE WHALER AURORA 57 and every available place was cleared out for thisvaluable cargo. The ship began to look dirty, asshe had scraped off her paint, and the coal dustand oil had been liberally applied. It began to blow in the afternoon, with snowsqualls. All the men were on board in good time. Dming the day I caught a young seal. It hadshed nearly all its long white hair and the short,silvery coat underneath looked very pretty. Iamused myself plucking the balance of theoriginal coat. The seal appeared to enjoy it. Itwas killed accidentally a few days later. 31 arch 20tli. Blowing hard with snow number of pans were broken and many sculpslost, but we secured all we wanted; about onethousand came on board and the tween-deckswere nearly full. March 21st. A fine day, but the ship beset, sowe cleaned up and finished off the tween-decks;then we put all on deck that we thought
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