On the first voyage no ice was reported; on the second the leading features were bergs and floes of ice and long days of arctic summer.

They'd a bad voyage; thick mist down the St. Lawrence, and they lost a day cruising about among the floes in the Gulf.

I only saved it by the happy chance of being near a floe with an ice-foot, which, projecting under the water, gave me foot-hold; and I lay on the floe in a mooning state the whole night under the storm, for I was half drowned.

Early the floe on which we had done so much ski-ing broke up, and we gathered in our ice anchors, then put on head sail, to which she gradually paid off.

They had packed with great haste and commenced jumping the ponies from floe to floe, then dragging the loads over afterthe three men must have worked splendidly and fearlessly.

The flinty biscuit, watching whale or seal, Or listening, undaunted, to the crunch Of ice-floes at the keel, Say, Sir Intrepid!

The great depth of the bergs still prevented their coming within the cluster of islands, while their number and size completely stopped the floes from passing.

It was hot and garments came off one by onethe Soldier and Atkinson were stripped to the waist eventually, and have been sliding round the floe for some time in that condition.

I do not remember, nevertheless, to have ever seen even a floe within the groupnothing beyond large cakes that have got adrift by some means or other.

"A pretty tall berg it seems to be, with an extensive ice-floe around it as level in spots as a floor.

"Tell you what," he said presently, "there's a considerable ice-floe between the islands; the north wind brought it down last night.

Before a great while the berg will roll over, and smash all that floe into bits.

Three minutes later all nine occupants [20] were streaming over the floe towards us with shouts of welcome.

The next moment the whole floe under him and the dogs heaved up and split into fragments.

Was the ice floe about to break up?

When I came quite near, I saw that with every bump of the two floes against the bows, his face shook in response, and nodded a little; strange to say, he had no covering on his head, and I noted the play of the faint breezes in his uncut hair.

Another interesting observation to-night is that of the slow passage of a stream of old heavy floes past the ship and the lighter ice in which she is held.

They had looked forward eagerly to the first encounter with their kind, but this vision floating by on the treacherous ice, of men who rather dared the current and the crash of contending floes than land where they were, seemed of evil augury.

Where the Tagus joins the Hooghly I have bowled the wily googly, I have heard the howdah's howl at Hyderabad; On a rickshaw I've gone sailing, with my boomerang impaling Hooded cobras on the ice-floes off Bagdad.