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At
length
the
mate
reappeared
on
deck
and
Hearne
followed
him
!
By
a
miracle
,
neither
the
bulkheads
,
nor
the
ribs
,
nor
the
planking
had
yielded
at
the
place
where
the
sealing
-
master
was
confined
.
Hearne
rejoined
his
comrades
without
opening
his
lips
,
and
we
had
no
further
trouble
about
him
.
Towards
six
o
’
clock
in
the
morning
the
fog
cleared
off
,
owing
to
a
marked
fall
in
the
temperature
.
We
had
no
longer
to
do
with
completely
frozen
vapour
,
but
had
to
deal
with
the
phenomenon
called
frost
-
rime
,
which
often
occurs
in
these
high
latitudes
.
Captain
Len
Guy
recognized
it
by
the
quantity
of
prismatic
threads
,
the
point
following
the
wind
which
roughened
the
light
ice
-
crust
deposited
on
the
sides
of
the
iceberg
.
Navigators
know
better
than
to
confound
this
frost
-
rime
with
the
hoar
frost
of
the
temperate
zones
,
which
only
freezes
when
it
has
been
deposited
on
the
surface
of
the
soil
.
We
were
now
enabled
to
estimate
the
size
of
the
solid
mass
on
which
we
clustered
like
flies
on
a
sugar
-
loaf
,
and
the
schooner
,
seen
from
below
,
looked
no
bigger
than
the
yawl
of
a
trading
vessel
.
This
iceberg
of
between
three
and
four
hundred
fathoms
in
circumference
measured
from
130
to
140
feet
high
.
According
to
all
calculations
,
therefore
,
its
depth
would
be
four
or
five
times
greater
,
and
it
would
consequently
weigh
millions
of
tons
.
This
is
what
had
happened
:
The
iceberg
,
having
been
melted
away
at
its
base
by
contact
with
warmer
waters
,
had
risen
little
by
little
;
its
centre
of
gravity
had
become
displaced
,
and
its
equilibrium
could
only
be
re
-
established
by
a
sudden
capsize
,
which
had
lifted
up
the
part
that
had
been
underneath
above
the
sea
-
level
.
The
Halbrane
,
caught
in
this
movement
,
was
hoisted
as
by
an
enormous
lever
.
Numbers
of
icebergs
capsize
thus
on
the
polar
seas
,
and
form
one
of
the
greatest
dangers
to
which
approaching
vessels
are
exposed
.
Our
schooner
was
caught
in
a
hollow
on
the
west
side
of
the
iceberg
.
She
listed
to
starboard
with
her
stern
raised
and
her
bow
lowered
.
We
could
not
help
thinking
that
the
slightest
shake
would
cause
her
to
slide
along
the
slope
of
the
iceberg
into
the
sea
.
The
collision
had
been
so
violent
as
to
stave
in
some
of
the
planks
of
her
hull
.
After
the
first
collision
,
the
galley
situated
before
the
fore
-
mast
had
broken
its
fastenings
.
The
door
between
Captain
Len
Guy
’
s
and
the
mate
’
s
cabins
was
torn
away
from
the
hinges
.
The
topmast
and
the
topgallant
-
mast
had
come
down
after
the
back
-
stays
parted
,
and
fresh
fractures
could
plainly
be
seen
as
high
as
the
cap
of
the
masthead
.
