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Title: In the Lena Delta; a narrative of the search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his companions
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912 Philips, M. (Melville), ed
Subjects: Greely relief expedition. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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or theirowners. Apropos of the accident to our consort theBear, we had with us a brawny but not overly brightson of Erin, who toiled with the strength of a giant atthe hawser, and was heard to grumble, — This is a blankof a coast where theres nayther light nor baycon, —as if he expected the shores of this desolate region tobe lighted and buoyed like our green section of Godscountry. We were held captive by the ice off the Berry Islandsfor several days. All the whalers were equally inac-tive, save that a man with a spy-glass was never out ofthe crows-nest, which is simply a large cask of aboutsixty gallons capacity minus its head, and with a trap-door let in to its lower end, which is fastened to thefore or main royal pole as a look-out station. We allhunted a little for ducks and dovekies, which aboundin these waters, and the whalemen took occasional climbsto the highest point of the islands to observe the move-ment of the ice. At length, on the morning of the 3d of June, Mr. Nor-
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