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Little
time
was
given
me
,
however
.
Scarcely
had
I
managed
,
helped
by
the
second
mate
,
Aaron
Northrup
,
to
lower
away
half-a-dozen
barrels
and
kegs
,
when
all
cried
from
the
boat
that
they
were
casting
off
.
Good
reason
they
had
.
Down
upon
us
from
windward
was
drifting
a
towering
ice-mountain
,
while
to
leeward
,
close
aboard
,
was
another
ice-mountain
upon
which
we
were
driving
.
Quicker
in
his
leap
was
Aaron
Northrup
.
I
delayed
a
moment
,
even
as
the
boat
was
shoving
away
,
in
order
to
select
a
spot
amidships
where
the
men
were
thickest
,
so
that
their
bodies
might
break
my
fall
.
I
was
not
minded
to
embark
with
a
broken
member
on
so
hazardous
a
voyage
in
the
longboat
.
That
the
men
might
have
room
at
the
oars
,
I
worked
my
way
quickly
aft
into
the
sternsheets
.
Certainly
,
I
had
other
and
sufficient
reasons
.
It
would
be
more
comfortable
in
the
sternsheets
than
in
the
narrow
bow
.
And
further
,
it
would
be
well
to
be
near
the
afterguard
in
whatever
troubles
that
were
sure
to
arise
under
such
circumstances
in
the
days
to
come
.
In
the
sternsheets
were
the
mate
,
Walter
Drake
,
the
surgeon
,
Arnold
Bentham
,
Aaron
Northrup
,
and
Captain
Nicholl
,
who
was
steering
.
The
surgeon
was
bending
over
Northrup
,
who
lay
in
the
bottom
groaning
.
Not
so
fortunate
had
he
been
in
his
ill-considered
leap
,
for
he
had
broken
his
right
leg
at
the
hip
joint
.
There
was
little
time
for
him
then
,
however
,
for
we
were
labouring
in
a
heavy
sea
directly
between
the
two
ice
islands
that
were
rushing
together
.
Nicholas
Wilton
,
at
the
stroke
oar
,
was
cramped
for
room
;
so
I
better
stowed
the
barrels
,
and
,
kneeling
and
facing
him
,
was
able
to
add
my
weight
to
the
oar
.
For
'
ard
,
I
could
see
John
Roberts
straining
at
the
bow
oar
.
Pulling
on
his
shoulders
from
behind
,
Arthur
Haskins
and
the
boy
,
Benny
Hardwater
,
added
their
weight
to
his
.
In
fact
,
so
eager
were
all
hands
to
help
that
more
than
one
was
thus
in
the
way
and
cluttered
the
movements
of
the
rowers
.
It
was
close
work
,
but
we
went
clear
by
a
matter
of
a
hundred
yards
,
so
that
I
was
able
to
turn
my
head
and
see
the
untimely
end
of
the
Negociator
.
She
was
caught
squarely
in
the
pinch
and
she
was
squeezed
between
the
ice
as
a
sugar
plum
might
be
squeezed
between
thumb
and
forefinger
of
a
boy
.
In
the
shouting
of
the
wind
and
the
roar
of
water
we
heard
nothing
,
although
the
crack
of
the
brig
's
stout
ribs
and
deckbeams
must
have
been
enough
to
waken
a
hamlet
on
a
peaceful
night
.
Silently
,
easily
,
the
brig
's
sides
squeezed
together
,
the
deck
bulged
up
,
and
the
crushed
remnant
dropped
down
and
was
gone
,
while
where
she
had
been
was
occupied
by
the
grinding
conflict
of
the
ice-islands
.
I
felt
regret
at
the
destruction
of
this
haven
against
the
elements
,
but
at
the
same
time
was
well
pleased
at
thought
of
my
snugness
inside
my
four
shirts
and
three
coats
.
Yet
it
proved
a
bitter
night
,
even
for
me
.
I
was
the
warmest
clad
in
the
boat
.
What
the
others
must
have
suffered
I
did
not
care
to
dwell
upon
over
much
.
For
fear
that
we
might
meet
up
with
more
ice
in
the
darkness
,
we
bailed
and
held
the
boat
bow-on
to
the
seas
.
And
continually
,
now
with
one
mitten
,
now
with
the
other
,
I
rubbed
my
nose
that
it
might
not
freeze
.
Also
,
with
memories
lively
in
me
of
the
home
circle
in
Elkton
,
I
prayed
to
God
.
In
the
morning
we
took
stock
.
To
commence
with
,
all
but
two
or
three
had
suffered
frost-bite
.
Aaron
Northrup
,
unable
to
move
because
of
his
broken
hip
,
was
very
bad
.
It
was
the
surgeon
's
opinion
that
both
of
Northrup
's
feet
were
hopelessly
frozen
.
The
longboat
was
deep
and
heavy
in
the
water
,
for
it
was
burdened
by
the
entire
ship
's
company
of
twenty-one
.
Two
of
these
were
boys
.
Benny
Hardwater
was
a
bare
thirteen
,
and
Lish
Dickery
,
whose
family
was
near
neighbour
to
mine
in
Elkton
,
was
just
turned
sixteen
.
Our
provisions
consisted
of
three
hundred-weight
of
beef
and
two
hundred-weight
of
pork
.
The
half-dozen
loaves
of
brine-pulped
bread
,
which
the
cook
had
brought
,
did
not
count
.
Then
there
were
three
small
barrels
of
water
and
one
small
keg
of
beer
.
