. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. brig. He has not been seen since. Parties are out with lanterns seeking him; for it isfeared that his long cord may have caught upon someof the rude pinnacles of ice which stud our floe, andthus made him a helpless prisoner. The thermometeris at 44°.6 below zero, and old Grims teeth could notgnaw away the cord. December 23, Friday.—Our anxieties for old Grimmight have interfered with almost any thing else; butthey could not arrest our celebration of yesterday. made us a well-studied o
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. brig. He has not been seen since. Parties are out with lanterns seeking him; for it isfeared that his long cord may have caught upon someof the rude pinnacles of ice which stud our floe, andthus made him a helpless prisoner. The thermometeris at 44°.6 below zero, and old Grims teeth could notgnaw away the cord. December 23, Friday.—Our anxieties for old Grimmight have interfered with almost any thing else; butthey could not arrest our celebration of yesterday. made us a well-studied oration, and Morton a PORTRAIT OF OLD GRIM. 151 capital punch; add to these a dinner of marled beef,—we have two pieces left, for the suns return and theFourth of July,— and a bumper of champagne allround; and the elements of our frolic are all regis-tered. We tracked old Grim to-day through the snow towithin six hundred yards of the brig, and thence tothat mass of snow-packed sterility which we call theshore, ffis not rejoining the ship is a mystery quitein keeping with his character. , ... PORTRAIT OF OLD GRIM. > CHAPTER XIV. MAGNETIC OBSERVATORY — TEMPERATURES — RETURNING LIGHT —DARKNESS AND THE DOGS — HYDROPHOBIA — ICE-CHANGES — THEICE-FOOT THE ICE-BELT THE SUNLIGHT MARCH. My journal for the first two months of 1854 is sodevoid of interest, that I spare the reader the task offollowing me through it. In the darkness and conse-quent inaction, it was almost in vain that we soughtto create topics of thought, and by a forced excitementto ward off the encroachments of disease. Our ob-servatory and the dogs gave us our only regular occu-pations. On the 9 th of January we had again an occulta-tion of Saturn. The emersion occurred during a shortinterval of clear sky, and our observation of it wasquite satisfactory; the limit of the moons disc andthat of the planet being well defined: the mist pre-vented our seeing the immersion. We had a re-currence of the same
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