A Winter Amid the Ice

ations, to which, that there might be union, zeal, and courage on the part of every

clearly explaine

boundaries of those parts. In the extent of five hundred leagues, which separates Greenland from Spitzbergen, no land has

irection, supposing that she could not reach Shannon Island, it was here t

opposition; and it was decided to direct the e

al weeks. Fidèle Misonne soon put it in order, working upon it in the snow storehouse, whither his tools had been carried. For the first time a coal-stove was set up in this storehouse, without which all labour there would have been impossible. The pipe was carried out through one of the lateral walls, by a hole pierced in th

ith the provisions. They chose a small barrel of spirits-of-wine for heating a portable chafing-dish; reserves of coffee and tea in ample quantity were packed; a small box of biscuits, two hundred pounds of pemmican, and some gour

out without peril of life. For two months at least the crew would be condemned to the most complete imprisonment; then the thaw would begin, and continue till the time when the ship should quit the ice. This thaw would, of course, prevent any explorations. On the other hand, if Louis Cornbutte and his comrades w

e men who should compose the party. The young girl could not be deprived of the protection of Jean

ces without seeming to suffer from them, for she was a sailor's daughter, used from infancy to the fatigues of the sea, and ev

d be reserved for her, at need, on the sledge, on which a little wooden hut was constructed, closed in h

ehind with him. New provisions of all kinds were carried; for Jean Cornbutte, in order to carry the exploration as far as possible, had resolved to establish dep?ts along the route, at each seven or ei

he sky cleared, the stars emitted an extraordinary light, and the moon shone above the horizon, no lo

as fixed for th

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