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Updated: May 22, 2025
"The ice-mountain is well disposed toward you," said Tyeen. "He is firing his big guns to welcome you."
We have wished for you very hard. Now you have come, we will treat you well." "Are your huts far off?" asked the seaman anxiously. "Not far. They are close to the ice-mountain on the land." "Take me to them, then, like a good fellow, for I'm dead-beat, and stand much in need of rest." The poor man was so helpless that he could not walk to the sledge when they unrolled him.
Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off. Good reason they had. Down upon us from windward was drifting a towering ice-mountain, while to leeward, close aboard, was another ice-mountain upon which we were driving. Quicker in his leap was Aaron Northrup.
Large masses of frozen snow came hurtling down, falling with loud splashes into the water on either side of them. One such mass would have been sufficient to send their boat to the bottom; but only a few small fragments fell on board, and no one was hurt. Then came a cry of terror from many a usually stout heart. The summit of the ice-mountain bent over more and more.
They'll scale an ice-mountain like my reindeer. And if they ever get in sight of a bear!" He made a gesture as much as to say, "Let him look out." "What are their names?" said Tommy, who always wanted to know every one's name. "Buster and Muster and Fluster, and Joe and Rob and Mac." "Ain't one of them named Towser?" asked Tommy. "I thought one was always named Towser."
And yet, how many of us were then thinking that if we had heeded his advice, and if the schooner had taken the northern course, a whole crew would not have been reduced to take refuge on a drifting ice-mountain! I scarcely dared to calculate my own share of the vast responsibility, I who had so vehemently insisted on the prolongation of the voyage.
And more than this again; the temperature had fallen sensibly: this was probably a forewarning of the austral winter. The summit of our ice-mountain was lost in vapour, in a fog which would not resolve itself into rain, but would continue to muffle up the horizon. “Bad luck!” said the boatswain, “for now if we were to pass by land we should not perceive it.” ”And our drift?”
Toyatte's grand countenance glowed like a sun-filled glacier, as he joyfully and teasingly remarked that "the big Sum Dum ice-mountain had hidden his face from me and refused to let me pay him a visit." All the crew worked hard boring a way down the west side of the fiord, and early in the afternoon we reached comparatively open water near the mouth of the bay.
His recent interview with the Doctor, certain remarks which had been dropped in his hearing, but above all an unaccountable impression upon his spirits, all combined to fill his mind with a foreboding conviction that he was very near some overshadowing danger. It was as the chill of the ice-mountain toward which the ship is steering under full sail.
They told us that the big bay was called by them Sit-a-da-kay, or Ice Bay; that there were many large ice-mountains in it, but no gold-mines; and that the ice-mountain they knew best was at the head of the bay, where most of the seals were found.
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