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... floe or a berg till we'd got a chance to slip out . Some- times I've seen a score and more of ships round the Priscilla , and scarce a foot of water in sight except in our water - hole . Whilst she was kept in quod like that , the car ...
... floe or a berg till we'd got a chance to slip out . Some- times I've seen a score and more of ships round the Priscilla , and scarce a foot of water in sight except in our water - hole . Whilst she was kept in quod like that , the car ...
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... 'd a kind of twi- light ; just enough to make it out . We were soon friz up tight again . One bit of ice joined on to another , and there was the ship again in the middle of the floe , like a pin in a pin 20 The Deserted Ship .
... 'd a kind of twi- light ; just enough to make it out . We were soon friz up tight again . One bit of ice joined on to another , and there was the ship again in the middle of the floe , like a pin in a pin 20 The Deserted Ship .
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Cupples Howe. of the floe , like a pin in a pin - cushion . The men came aft , and grumbled about their rations . " I don't fare any better than you , " says uncle ; and that was true . " I've got your lives as well as my own to look ...
Cupples Howe. of the floe , like a pin in a pin - cushion . The men came aft , and grumbled about their rations . " I don't fare any better than you , " says uncle ; and that was true . " I've got your lives as well as my own to look ...
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... floe . They soon got friz up in it . There was nothing to be seen for miles round but solid ice , with frizen - up bergs sticking out of it . The frost was worse than ever . The air was just as still as death ; you could hear nothing ...
... floe . They soon got friz up in it . There was nothing to be seen for miles round but solid ice , with frizen - up bergs sticking out of it . The frost was worse than ever . The air was just as still as death ; you could hear nothing ...
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... floe and smashing it up , till we thought the bergs was bound to bear down on us , and stave the ship . Then there came a lull again , and every- thing was as still as death . Chips was up then , and between us we got the boat built ...
... floe and smashing it up , till we thought the bergs was bound to bear down on us , and stave the ship . Then there came a lull again , and every- thing was as still as death . Chips was up then , and between us we got the boat built ...
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