. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. thingat all. Then, too, we had to guard against being shut up in thepack; and our critical situation became so evident that, on themorning of the 5th, we saw that to delajr our return a momentlonger would be sheer presumption. Accordingly, at an earlyhour, we started, the whole company in the boat (the two kiaswere left at Cape Ood-loo-ong); but we had not gone far beforewe met the pack drifting in with the tide, and blocking up ourway. And now began the usual work of hauling the boat overice, tracking her through narrow channels, turning now
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. thingat all. Then, too, we had to guard against being shut up in thepack; and our critical situation became so evident that, on themorning of the 5th, we saw that to delajr our return a momentlonger would be sheer presumption. Accordingly, at an earlyhour, we started, the whole company in the boat (the two kiaswere left at Cape Ood-loo-ong); but we had not gone far beforewe met the pack drifting in with the tide, and blocking up ourway. And now began the usual work of hauling the boat overice, tracking her through narrow channels, turning now to theright, then to the left, going forward a while, then back to anoth-er opening, and cutting away obstructions. Several hours of heavy labor were consumed in lifting, push-. THE ESOAPE OVEtt bEIFTING PACK.—MY u LAST SIGHTS, THE ICE-PACK.—GOOD NEWS. 561 ing, and pulling our boat over several miles of driving, drifting,whirling, crashing, thundering ice. Occasionally, while my com-pany—both men and women—would be getting the boat upon anice-floe, and dragging it along, the dogs and children accompany-ing, I would be busily engaged with my instruments taking my last sights of the principal places in and around the ever mem-orable Countess of Warwicks Sound, which had been lost tothe world for near three hundred years, but now was found. Atlast we got clear, arriving at open water, when we at once launch-ed the boat and pushed off. From thence it was not long that wewere on our way to Cape True, where we arrived in perfect safe-ty, though, within two hours after our arrival, the pack ribbed thewhole coast, and we thus narrowly escaped being closed in thesecond time. Two clays after our return, on Friday, August 8th, we wereagreeably surprised, in the
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