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At
this
date
the
Halbrane
could
not
be
very
far
from
the
icebergs
.
If
she
held
on
in
her
course
in
that
direction
she
would
certainly
reach
them
before
long
,
and
would
then
have
only
to
seek
for
a
passage
.
Hitherto
,
however
,
the
look
-
out
had
not
been
able
to
make
out
between
the
icebergs
an
unbroken
crest
of
ice
beyond
the
ice
-
fields
.
Constant
and
minute
precautions
were
indispensable
all
day
on
the
16th
,
for
the
helm
,
which
was
loosened
by
merciless
blows
and
bumps
,
was
in
danger
of
being
unshipped
.
The
sea
mammals
had
not
forsaken
these
seas
.
Whales
were
seen
in
great
numbers
,
and
it
was
a
fairy
-
like
spectacle
when
several
of
them
spouted
simultaneously
.
With
fin
-
backs
and
hump
-
backs
,
porpoises
of
colossal
size
appeared
,
and
these
Hearne
harpooned
cleverly
when
they
came
within
range
.
The
flesh
of
these
creatures
was
much
relished
on
board
,
after
Endicott
had
cooked
it
in
his
best
manner
.
As
for
the
usual
Antarctic
birds
,
petrels
,
pigeons
,
and
cormorants
,
they
passed
in
screaming
flocks
,
and
legions
of
penguins
,
ranged
along
the
edges
of
the
ice
-
fields
,
watched
the
evolutions
of
the
schooner
.
These
penguins
are
the
real
inhabitants
of
these
dismal
solitudes
,
and
nature
could
not
have
created
a
type
more
suited
to
the
desolation
of
the
glacial
zone
.
On
the
morning
of
the
17th
the
man
in
the
crow
’
s
-
nest
at
last
signalled
the
icebergs
.
Five
or
six
miles
to
the
south
a
long
dentated
crest
upreared
itself
,
plainly
standing
out
against
the
fairly
clear
sky
,
and
all
along
it
drifted
thousands
of
ice
-
packs
.
This
motionless
barrier
stretched
before
us
from
the
north
-
west
to
the
south
-
east
,
and
by
merely
sailing
along
it
the
schooner
would
still
gain
some
degrees
southwards
.
When
the
Halbrane
was
within
three
miles
of
the
icebergs
,
she
lay
-
to
in
the
middle
of
a
wide
basin
which
allowed
her
complete
freedom
of
movement
.
A
boat
was
lowered
,
and
Captain
Len
Guy
got
into
it
,
with
the
boatswain
,
four
sailors
at
the
oars
,
and
one
at
the
helm
.
The
boat
was
pulled
in
the
direction
of
the
enormous
rampart
,
vain
search
was
made
for
a
channel
through
which
the
schooner
could
have
slipped
,
and
after
three
hours
of
this
fatiguing
reconnoitring
,
the
men
returned
to
the
ship
.
Then
came
a
squall
of
rain
and
snow
which
caused
the
temperature
to
fall
to
thirty
-
six
degrees
(
2
°
22
’
C
.
above
zero
)
,
and
shut
out
the
view
of
the
ice
-
rampart
from
us
.
During
the
next
twenty
-
four
hours
the
schooner
lay
within
four
miles
of
the
icebergs
.
To
bring
her
nearer
would
have
been
to
get
among
winding
channels
from
which
it
might
not
have
been
possible
to
extricate
her
.
Not
that
Captain
Len
Guy
did
not
long
to
do
this
,
in
his
fear
of
passing
some
opening
unperceived
.
“
If
I
had
a
consort
,
”
he
said
,
“
I
would
sail
closer
along
the
icebergs
,
and
it
is
a
great
advantage
to
be
two
,
when
one
is
on
such
an
enterprise
as
this
!
But
the
Halbrane
is
alone
,
and
if
she
were
to
fail
us
—
”
