Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack From the History of the First Us Grinnell Exped
Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack From the History of the First Us Grinnell Exped
Elisha Kent Kane
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* I had often read of Esquimaux being carried off by the separation of these great floes; but, know- * This direction, transverse to the long axis of Baflto's Bav, seems to be that of most of our fissures. ^88 ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC ICE PACK ing that our guns could call assistance from the brig, we jumped over and hurried on. We were well paid. "The hummockings of this morning had ceased; the wind so gentle as hardly to be perceptible : the lead before me was an open river of water, and in it wer...e narwhals {31. Monoceros), in groups of five or six, rolling over and over, after the manner of the dolphin tribe. They were near me; so near that I could see their checkered backs, and enjoy the rich coloring that decorates them. The horn, that monodontal process which gives them their name of sea-unicorn, was perfectly examinable. Rising in a spirally indented cone, this beautiful ap- pendage appeared sometimes eight and ten feet out of water; one especially, whose tall curvetings astonished my body-guard.
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