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Half an hour later, the party, accoutred in their diving armour between which and their ordinary clothing they had interposed stout warm flannel overalls and armed with small ice-hatchets, mustered in the pilot- house; the ship was released from the ground, a vacuum created in her air-chambers, and upward she at once shot into the clear blue cloudless sky.
Frequently we found them so thick that it was impossible to break a road through them, and after working for an hour or two, we would be compelled to retrace our steps, and endeavor to find a new route. Where they formed in ridges, and were not too high, we broke them down with our ice-hatchets; the work was very exhausting to us, and so was the task of drawing the sledges to the poor dogs.
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