A Yacht Voyage Letters From High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in T
A Yacht Voyage Letters From High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in T
Frederick Temple Blackwood Dufferin And Ava
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383 knowledge of his ship. The Reine Hortense, going halt-speed, with all the officers and the crew on deck, glides along hetween the blocks of ice, some of which she seems almost to touch, and the smallest of which would sink her instantly if a collision took place. Another danger, which it is almost impossible to guard against, threatens a vessel in those trying moments. If a piece of ice gets under the screw, it will be inevitably smashed like glass, and the consequences of such an accident ...might be fatal. The little English schooner follows us bravely ; bound- ing in our track, and avoiding only by a constant watch- fulness and incessant attention to the helm the icebergs that we have cleared. But the difficulties of this navigation are nothing in clear weather, as compared to what they are in a fog. Then, notwithstanding the slowness of the speed, it re- quires as much luck as skill to avoid collisions. Thus it happened that after having escaped the ice a first time, and having steered E.
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