. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. THEY HEADED FOR THIS ICEBERG. largest icebergs was lying, motionless, apparently, in all the tumult. Roytalked for a moment with Scott, and they headed for this iceberg. Fortunately the veteran seamen needed only general directions tomake fast upon the lee side of the iceberg, for the young commander, 56 CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. who had never seen the operation, would have made poor work kept his eyes wide open, however, and the next time could commandor take a hand himself. The berg was in the shape of an enormou
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. THEY HEADED FOR THIS ICEBERG. largest icebergs was lying, motionless, apparently, in all the tumult. Roytalked for a moment with Scott, and they headed for this iceberg. Fortunately the veteran seamen needed only general directions tomake fast upon the lee side of the iceberg, for the young commander, 56 CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. who had never seen the operation, would have made poor work kept his eyes wide open, however, and the next time could commandor take a hand himself. The berg was in the shape of an enormousmound on one side, ending in an abrupt ledge of gleaming ice on the. ROY, AXE IN HAND. other, while the gradually sloping side was surrounded at the base by aplatform of smooth, flat ice. No sooner had the Snowbird touched the berg than the men were outon the ice with ice-anchors, forward and aft, and in fifteen minutes thelittle bark was held so fast that she scarcely moved with the waves. We are surely safer here than dodging about in this gale, said Roy,and, anxious to make the most of every opportunity, the boys were soonout upon the ice. Their first discovery was a ships anchor, caught in the ice. It is the relic of some one in trouble, said Roy, but it is heavierthan ours and we may need it. CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. 57 He went for an axe to cut it free, when Scott discovered a brig in thedistance, dodging and tacking in the gale, trying to find a way out fromamong large icebergs closing in upon her. Im going to take a look at her in the gig, Scott exclaimed, and be-fore Roy could remonstrate he was pulling away over the waves, andRoy, axe in hand, s
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