Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . uite enjoyable; then, too, the possibility of pick-ing up a specimen added to the interest. Though ice hadformed over pond-holes, it was not strong enough to bear aman until about September 6th. Among the things foundon the ice this season were pieces of wood and parts of trees,both birch and fir, and parts of two skeletons of good-sizedcodfish. These last evidently had been caught much farther OUR HEAVIEST BEAE. 291 BOuth by seals, and
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . uite enjoyable; then, too, the possibility of pick-ing up a specimen added to the interest. Though ice hadformed over pond-holes, it was not strong enough to bear aman until about September 6th. Among the things foundon the ice this season were pieces of wood and parts of trees,both birch and fir, and parts of two skeletons of good-sizedcodfish. These last evidently had been caught much farther OUR HEAVIEST BEAE. 291 BOuth by seals, and drifted on the ice up to the latitudeswhere they were found. Throughout the summer much of the time the men werehunting, and thus we had seal at least once a week for din-ner—sometimes eatable, often not, but best when roastedand eaten cold. Both bear and seal, in the absence of otherfresh meat, will pass, but are not very desirable. None ofthe bears taken by us came up to the weights I have seenmentioned by other Arctic voyagers. The heaviest one ob-tained by us weighed as shot 943J pounds, and was a fatone. In measurements they were about the CHAPTER XXiy. MR. NEWCOMBS NARRATIVE.(continued). DURING- the summer of 1880 the ice had been compara-tively quiet, but by October it was grinding, smash-ing, and piling up in many places in a manner fatal to anyship caught by it. The mercury fell to —45 degrees by themiddle of this month, and the snow would give a metallicring at each footfall, loud enough to interfere with ordinaryconversation. Standing near some of these conflicts be-tween grinding floes, one first would realize the pressure by
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