. 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 . ober 3d.—Began to erect a liouse on the ice-field to JOURNAL OF HEEMANIS: SIEMANS. 749 which the ship was fastened, as the latter was in great dangerof being crushed, and, moreover, the winter now approachedfast. 7th.—Mild, with light northerly breeze. Worked on thehouse, and carried ice into the ship, which Mr, Schumannintended to use for the small boiler working the pumps, asthe salt water had crjstalized in it to a great ex
. 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 . ober 3d.—Began to erect a liouse on the ice-field to JOURNAL OF HEEMANIS: SIEMANS. 749 which the ship was fastened, as the latter was in great dangerof being crushed, and, moreover, the winter now approachedfast. 7th.—Mild, with light northerly breeze. Worked on thehouse, and carried ice into the ship, which Mr, Schumannintended to use for the small boiler working the pumps, asthe salt water had crjstalized in it to a great extent. In theafternoon Joe shot a seal and discovered that he had beentracked the day before close to the ship by a polar bear,which the dogs had not scented, the wind being againstthem; they are generally very keen in this respect. 9th.—We carried a store of bread into the house. In theafternoon one of the crew saw a polar bear between the ice-fields, at a distance of a mile from the ship. 12th.—We had a gale from the N. E., with cold temper-ature. Much open water. Drifted more rapidly to thesouth. We were now about three miles from the coast teMinssji-^A ^^ ^^ 43 CHAPTEU HERRONS DIARY. John Herron, steward of the Polaris Expedition,was one of the party separated from the ship and sub-sequently rescued by the Tigress. Mr. Herron kepta journal of the incidents and experiences of the icedrift, which extended from October 15th,4Wi, to the ^^ensuing May, and it is in every respect highly cred-itable to him. All the important and interesting por-tions of this document are given below: October 15. Gale from the S. W.; ship made fast to floe ;bergs pressed in and nipped the sliip until -^ve thouglit shewas going down; threw provisions overboard, and nineteensouls got on the floe to receive them and haul them up on theice. A large berg came sailing down, struck the floe, shiv-ered it to pieces, and freed the ship. She was out of sightin five minates. We
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