Our unfortunate ship got it from
all sides. Once it had to back to
get room, and the stem was flung up
into the air. Then came a new
slackening in the ice, a big floe got
elbow room and came rushing at us
like a wild animal.
Before we knew how or what, the
Teddy was flung forward violently.
But the ice lay thick under her bow
and there was no other way out of It
for our good ship, which insisted on
going forward, than to climb up on
top of the floe.
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YIfHEN we cams to after this
heavenward leap, the whole for
ward part of the ship lay up on a
little ice floe, raised more than seven
feet Into the air. A length of the
keel, two to three yards at least, hung
out over the ice and the ship, which
naturally could scarcely keep her b&l
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ance, took on a startling list td stgr-
I don’t think there ever was such
board until the deck almost touched
the water level. i -
a rush of work On any ship as there
was on ours just then. Every man
jumped to his place, and provisions,
guns, ammunition sfcd skins were
thrown helter-skelter out on the ice,
while the crew worked like mad to
get a few sails up.
