. 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 . THE SICK AT ANOATOK. 611 and hauled down again, and our party walked once ortwice around the brig, looking at her timbers and ex-changing comments upon the scars which remindedthem of every stage of her dismantling. Our figure-head—the fair Augusta, the little blue girl with pinkcheeks, who had lost her breast by an iceberg and hernose by a nip off Bedevilled Eeach—was taken fromour bows and placed aboard the Hope/ She is atan
. 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 . THE SICK AT ANOATOK. 611 and hauled down again, and our party walked once ortwice around the brig, looking at her timbers and ex-changing comments upon the scars which remindedthem of every stage of her dismantling. Our figure-head—the fair Augusta, the little blue girl with pinkcheeks, who had lost her breast by an iceberg and hernose by a nip off Bedevilled Eeach—was taken fromour bows and placed aboard the Hope/ She is atany rate wood, said the men, when I hesitated aboutgiving them the additional burden; and if we can-not carry her far we can burn her. As I review my notes of the first few days of ourice-journey, I find them full of incidents interestingand even momentous when they occurred, but whichcannot claim a place in this narrative. The sledgeswere advancing slowly, the men often discouraged,and now and then one giving way under the unaccus-tomed labor; the sick at Anoatok always dreary intheir solitude, and suffering, perhaps, under an exacer-bation of disease, or, lik
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