. Round about the North pole . e all cast away. Asshe lay upright again they tried in vain with crowbarsand other tools to break off the piled-up ice, and nextday in a heavy snow the pressure became such that thewhole ship was borne up and so squeezed that all thatwas both about and in it began to crack, so that itseemed to burst in a hundred pieces, which was mostfearful both to see and hear, and made all the hair ofour heads to rise upright with fear. The grip con-tinuing, the vessel was driven up four or five feet andthe rudder squeezed off, which was replaced by a newone, when she sank bac
. Round about the North pole . e all cast away. Asshe lay upright again they tried in vain with crowbarsand other tools to break off the piled-up ice, and nextday in a heavy snow the pressure became such that thewhole ship was borne up and so squeezed that all thatwas both about and in it began to crack, so that itseemed to burst in a hundred pieces, which was mostfearful both to see and hear, and made all the hair ofour heads to rise upright with fear. The grip con-tinuing, the vessel was driven up four or five feet andthe rudder squeezed off, which was replaced by a newone, when she sank back into the water a few hoursafterwards owing to the ice drifting clear for a matters went on for a little time, the ship beingalternately lifted and released. On the 11th of September, as there was no hope ofescape, it was decided to build a house wherein tospend the winter, and in seeking for a suitable position,a mass of driftwood— trees, roots and all—was dis-covered, driven ashore from Tartaria, Muscovia, or. THE HOUSE THE DUTCH BUILT 51 elsewhere, for there were no trees growing on theland, wherewith, says De Veer, we were muchcomforted, being in good hope that God would showus some further favour; for that wood served us notonly to build our house, but also to burn and serve usall the winter long; otherwise without all doubt wehad died there miserably with extreme cold. The timber was collected and piled up in heaps thatit might not be hidden under the snow, and two sledgeswere made on which to drag it to the site of the was heavy work in which all took part, four ofthem in turn remaining by the ship, there being thir-teen men to each party, five to each sledge, with threeto help and lift the wood behind to make us draw thebetter and with more ease, and at the end of the firstweek of it the carpenter died, so that only sixteen wereleft. But the wood was brought along day after day,some to build with, some for fuel; and the house wasbuilt, the fro
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