. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. l Island. There were severalwhalers at work there, and they had met with very good luck. Two ofthem were nearly full, and would complete their cargoes before the endof summer, when they would saildirectly for the Sandwich Islandsor San Francisco. One whaler hadlost a boat in a battle with a whale,but the crew was saved, so that theaccident was of little whaler had been nipped inthe ice, and got off without muchdamage; on the whole the seasonswork was satisfactory, and the whal- «ers were happy. I hope theyll get out of theAr
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. l Island. There were severalwhalers at work there, and they had met with very good luck. Two ofthem were nearly full, and would complete their cargoes before the endof summer, when they would saildirectly for the Sandwich Islandsor San Francisco. One whaler hadlost a boat in a battle with a whale,but the crew was saved, so that theaccident was of little whaler had been nipped inthe ice, and got off without muchdamage; on the whole the seasonswork was satisfactory, and the whal- «ers were happy. I hope theyll get out of theArctic Ocean before the ice comesdown, said Captain Jones, as theboat was returning to the Vivian. Every few years some of them get caught by the ice before they passthe capes, and when it comes down with full force it crushes them likeegg-shells. In 1871 thirty-three whaling ships, almost in sight of eachother, were caught, and crushed between the ice and the shore; the windwas against them, and the ice drifted faster than they could work
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