. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. e in At night a little more sail was taken in, and the third nightthey were scudding along, careened almost to the water with only asingle sail and jib. They had passed several lumps of ice of varying size, which, toScott and Roy, ap-peared to be very fairicebergs, and provedintensely fascinating,but the old sailors paidthem very little atten-tion till the third night,when one of themasked to be allowedto keep lookout watchforward. Why, we arebowling along beauti-fully, Roy remarked ; and theres not arock between us
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. e in At night a little more sail was taken in, and the third nightthey were scudding along, careened almost to the water with only asingle sail and jib. They had passed several lumps of ice of varying size, which, toScott and Roy, ap-peared to be very fairicebergs, and provedintensely fascinating,but the old sailors paidthem very little atten-tion till the third night,when one of themasked to be allowedto keep lookout watchforward. Why, we arebowling along beauti-fully, Roy remarked ; and theres not arock between us andCape Farewell. The old fellowtouched his hat re-spectfully, and said: We may be at astandstill, sir, beforeto-morrow night. Ice ? said Roy. Ice, sir, repliedthe sailor. The possibilityserved to give theyoung captain a verywakeful nisbt, buttwenty-four hours later found them still close hauled and still plunging forward, makingnearly eight knots an hour, with the ice constantly increasing aboutthem, and stormy petrels, with their warning cries, hovering near THE SNOWBIRD, THE MOONLIGHT AND THE SEA. 52 CAPTAIN SARGENT, SIR. Here and there real Arctic monsters now came bearing down uponthem, rising far above the tops of their masts, and ten or twelve timeslonger than the Snowbird. They were often surrounded on the lee by acluster of smaller bergs, while a cold gray mist settled down on the water,more treacherous than a fog, sometimes freezing as it fell, for an hour ormore, making it almost impossible to stand upon the deck or handle theropes and sails. After an unusually long ice-rain, early on the fifth morning, it began to snow. The wind blew a gale, and the-;/. v snow was so thick that it was hard to see the length of the Snowbird. Scottand a sailor held the helm. One sailorstood in the prow, and another sat at themasthead. Rov, one sailor and the cook,having been up all night, were sleeping,when the two lookouts, at the same instant,shouted : Ship ahoy ! Dead ahead
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