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"Look out, Peter, when you get on board the Princess, for Lund has secured such a story to tell, that he may pitch you two overboard to keep you from spoiling it by your return." "All light," answered Peter; "Capten Lund good man; see spirit, too, sure enough. He see two men; he look 'gain, no men dere. He see you an' me on hice. Snow fall t'ick, an' he see us no more. What hurt we come back?
He told me he had took five mortial hours to come the last mile, the horse walkin' slowly afore him, and guiding him like. And how do you think he did it, with two pillars of hice for legs? Why he lifted up just one leg and then the other with both his hands, and put them afore him, and took his steps that way."
Through creeks and rivers and swamps he led that poor fellow. His boots got chuck full o' cold water, and when the sun went down it friz into solid hice; and that misfortnit man he felt his legs which was his life, you see, ma'am gradially dyin' under him. Yet he was a well-plucked one, if ever there was such a party on this airth.
"You right, master," said Regnar. "We go to-morrow to berg; see great ways from there, if we can get up. 'Nother thing we ought to do move off this floe before next gale, else get house broken, and lose many things." "Pooh!" said Waring, carelessly; "this berg would last a month yet." "I risk this hice, more'n twenty, tirty feet tick. Sea no break this up."
"Can you think of any way of climbing that pinnacle, Peter?" "No way do that, unless cut a way into that hice, and then no safe place to stan' on, sartain, this time," answered the Indian. "Let me have that rope," said Regnar, quietly. Taking the light Manilla painter, he proceeded to form a large loop, and grasping it near the running knot, laid half a dozen turns across his hand.
This latter speech was addressed to a pastrycook's boy, with a large sugar temple and many conical papers containing delicacies for dessert. "Mind the hice is here in time; or there'll be a blow-up with your governor," and John struggled back, closing the door on the astonished Colonel. "Upon my life, they actually shut the door in our faces," said the poor gentleman. "The man is very busy, sir.
And the one-armed hunter plied the light axe with a haste which showed no small amount of anxiety. The boat was soon clear, but the snow was falling so fast that they could scarcely see to windward at all, and no part of the land was visible. Again the Indian spoke, and a new cause of anxiety was stated. "Where sposum boys this time? See boat little hile ago. No see any now. They no see hice.
"I kill many birds on hice, in quetan, among sedge out on the bay, but I never see such sight. I never think so many birds in the world before," said Peter, as he loaded his double-barrel. "I been up Ivuctoke Inlet, on Greenland coast; down Disco saw great many bird, but nothing like this," muttered Regnar.
'Stead o' that, I wrapped him up warm in my own blankets, after I had chipped his boots and the hice off of 'em, and I made up a roarin' fire. Good Lord, how the poor fellow groaned when he begun to get warm! I gave him a pannikin full o' hot tea, with a drop o' grog in it, and that seemed to make him awful bad.
Una vez terminado el viaje es cuando comprendí que mi aprensión y mi temor carecían de fundamento, que no envolvía más riesgos el volar por los aires en un aeroplano como el correr a campo traviesa en un automovil y me hice cargo de las innumerables ventajas que se pueden sacar de este aparato, producto también de nuestros tiempos, destinado a revolucionar no sólo los medios de guerra sino también las artes de la paz.
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