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Identifier: adventuresoftwoy00knox (find matches)
Title: Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
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e of the clearing up of thefog and the prospect of being able to make a farther advance. Whenall were safe on board, the Vivian cast off from the floe and the Gambettafollowed her example. A few scattered cakes and floes were visible inthe north-east, but there was none as large as the one to which they hadbeen fastened, and the captain considered the opportunity too good to belost. The ships made about thirty-five or forty miles on their course, andthen the drift-ice became so thick as to necessitate caution. The captainmounted to the crows-nest, and in an hour or so he announced that hecould make out the ice-blink filling the horizon in the distance. It ex-tended so far that he thought it indicated an end of their progress undersail for the present. Steadily the ice increased, and in ten or twelve hours after the blinkwas discovered they found themselves hemmed in on all sides. The floeswere large, and the lanes became so narrow that sailing was out of the A TANTALIZING PURSUIT. 159
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160 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN.* question. Once more the ships were tied up, and as a matter of precautionCaptain Jones ordered the Vivian to be warped into a little nook on oneside of a floe, where the chances of being nipped were• greatly dimin-ished. We are now, said the captain, about as far to the north as we canexpect to get by sailing. In a few hours we shall probably be frozen in,and must trust to the currents to carry us on our way. The wind is in ourfavor, and I think the ice is carrying us towards the pole. Then he ordered soundings to be made on the side of the ship farthestfrom the ice. The lead showed forty-five fathoms of water, with muddybottom; after the depth had been ascertained the lead was again cast, inorder to ascertain the drift of the ice, and consequently of the ship. Thisproved to be north-east; the wind was blowing from the south, and conse-quently the drift was not exactly in accordance with the wind, and showedthe existence of a current. During the night

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