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As the wind was still blowing fresh, and would have been dead against them had they attempted to return by a direct route to the ship, they made for the shore, intending to avail themselves of the shelter afforded by the ice-belt. Meanwhile the carcass of the walrus, at least as much of it as could not be packed on the sledge, was buried in the hut, and a spear planted above it to mark the spot.
Such an extraordinary mixture of articles, of course, led the party to conclude that either she had helped herself to the stores of the Dolphin placed on Store Island, or that she had fallen in with those of some other vessel. This subject afforded food for thought and conversation during the next hour or two, as they drove towards the ship along the ice-belt of the shore.
The tide rose so high that it raised the sea-ice to a level with the ice-belt, and, welling up between the two, completely overflowed the latter.
The ice-belt referred to is a zone of ice which extends along the shore from the unknown regions of the north.
"You see, Tom," he said, as they stumbled along over the loose ice towards the ice-belt that lined the cliffs, "you see, I'm a great dab at ornithology, especially when I've got a gun on my shoulder. When I haven't a gun, strange to say, I don't feel half so enthusiastic about birds!" "That's a very peculiar style of regarding the science.
Neither party saw the other, for one approached from the east, the other from the west, and the ice-belt, on the point of which the woman stood, rose up between them. "Hallo! what's yon?" exclaimed Peter Grim, who was first to observe the woman. "Dun'no'," said Buzzby, halting; "it looks like a bear." "Faix an' it is, then, it's got a young wan on its back," cried O'Riley.
"Its whole substance was studded with these varied contributions from the shore; and further to the south, upon the now frozen waters of Marshall Bay, I could recognise raft after raft from the last year's ice-belt which had been caught by the winter, each one laden with its heavy freight of foreign material.
As the wind was still blowing fresh, and would have been dead against them had they attempted to return by a direct route to the ship, they made for the shore, intending to avail themselves of the shelter afforded by the ice-belt. Meanwhile the carcass of the walrus at least as much of it as could not be packed on the sledge was buried in the hut, and a spear planted above it to mark the spot.
Neither party saw the other, for one approached from the east, the other from the west, and the ice-belt, on the point of which the woman stood, rose up between them. "Hallo! what's yon," exclaimed Peter Grim, who was first to observe the woman. "Dunno," said Buzzby, halting; "it looks like a bear." "Faix an it is, then, it's got a young wan on its back," cried O'Riley.
They had come fully ten miles in the track of the convenient iceberg; and, when the storm abated which it did on the 22nd the crew took the Advance in tow, but made little progress along the ice-belt.
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