sealing-floes

Updated: June 9, 2025

At last he drew back his chair, lit a cigar offered him by one of the officers, and turning to the mate said, laughingly, "Fire away, gentlemen I'm ready." After narrating the principal events of their voyage so far as he deemed prudent, he concluded as follows: "Two or three days ago we fell in with large sealing-floes, and among them one where a sealer had killed several hundred seals.

Charles Winslow Hall - Adrift in the Ice-Fields