. Rod and gun. Jammed: Men (ilearing Away Heavy Pieces of lee From Ships Side. Towing Seals to a Pan the ice was loose, was spent in pickingup odd seals here and there and oc-casionally shooting at them from thedeck. One day I bagged an oldHood from the bow of the ship; themost curious thing about this seal isthat the top of his head is almostbullet-proof, being covered with athick grizzly skin, which puffs upwhen he becomes infuriated, thusmaking him impervious to the blowsof a gaff or club; indeed, there arefew men who care to make his ac-quaintance unless armed with a weather up t
. Rod and gun. Jammed: Men (ilearing Away Heavy Pieces of lee From Ships Side. Towing Seals to a Pan the ice was loose, was spent in pickingup odd seals here and there and oc-casionally shooting at them from thedeck. One day I bagged an oldHood from the bow of the ship; themost curious thing about this seal isthat the top of his head is almostbullet-proof, being covered with athick grizzly skin, which puffs upwhen he becomes infuriated, thusmaking him impervious to the blowsof a gaff or club; indeed, there arefew men who care to make his ac-quaintance unless armed with a weather up to the present hadbeen ideal and the going, good but wewere soon to have a change. The wind sprang up and the icewhich had hitherto been dotted withlakes of water, began to close in andbefore very long we were again jam-med, this , hard and fast. We were in this position for elevendays before the wind and currentagain broke up the ice. It will be well here, to give an ac-count of how we passed the time dur-ing our enforced stay in that were one hundred and se
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