The necessity for admitting light, too, admonished the sealers of the inexpediency of thus shrouding all their windows.

The summer had passed, that summer which was to have brought back the sealers; and autumn had come to chill the hopes as as the body.

Yes, yes; we want a monstrous navy, to convoy sealers, and carry letters about, and keep some folks at home, while it lets other folks go about their lawful business.

Everything like work was, of course, suspended during this tempest, which seriously menaced the unfortunate sealers with the necessity of again breaking up their schooner, now nearly completed, with a view again to keep themselves from freezing.

Does it not seem to you that yonder are the bones of sea lions, or of seals of some sort, lying hereaway as if men had been at work on the creatures?" "No doubt on't at all, Captain Gar'ner; as much out of the way as this island isand I never heard of the place afore, old a sealer as I ambut, as much out of the way as it is, we are not the first to find it.

This set our sealers up, no more complaints of the frost being heard.

Some regard was had to resisting the pressure of ice, and experience had taught all the sealers where the principal defences against the effects of a "nip" ought to be placed.