Among the Esquimaux; or, Adventures under the Arctic Circle

started forward, he instinctively glanced down in quest of evidence that Fred had passed there. There was none so far as he could see, and, if there

asked, as he re

eyond where we camped the ice is broken and s

e were there yes

marks are at a place where we haven

nage to find th

to look around, and there, within a few feet of me, on my right hand, I noticed the ice scratched and broken, as though some one had found it hard work to ge

ned by the rising sun. Before long their vision extended for miles, but the looked-for sight was not th

distance of Greenland or not, they were not nig

. Its pinnacles, domes, arches, plateaus, spires, and varied forms sparkled and scintillated in the growing su

o far off to attract interest. A still smaller one was visible midway between the two, and a pe

ew to the southward was excluded by the bulk

ere for us," remark

the way and let's

ad had in mind, and they had no sooner done so than the

that the spot was a hundred feet back from where the three huddled together with an expectation of spending the night until morning. It was on

lf on the right, and distant only two or three paces. It was no more than waist h

here were scratches, such as would have been made by a pair of shoes, a piece of the edge was broken off, and marks be

as eagerly as an American Indian might scrutiniz

uraging; I shouldn't wonder if the chap did make his way along there in the

dred feet, looked as if it might be scaled, but, just beyond that, towered a perpendicular wall, like the side of a glass mountain. There

hide a dozen men, and it was in one of these the couple belie

id Rob, "t

at

s I can; I can't wait, and th

m here. I don't think they'll wash away like the boat," he added, as h

aining all the time upon his slower companion, who

uded Jack, as he fell back to a more moderate pace; "he's

times, but managed to maintain his footing and to advance with a steadiness wh

d roused his hope at first were still seen at intervals, and ch

with shuddering dread in his heart; "he could not have remained asleep all this time

o go. The furtive glances into the depressions on his right and left showed nothing of his loved friend, a

otsteps, and looked and listene

? I see no way by which he could have pus

he had been following, turned so sharply to the right that it could not be seen un

to the rear, making his way upward with as much deliberati

Jack, but I think we're close

n; "when you run afoul of the lad giv

w acting the part of pioneer, and it did not a little to enco

ons, and, believing there was no immediate need of his

he can do that so well that he don't need any help from m

ing toward the sailor with such desperate haste that he continually stumbled and bruised himself. But he instantly sc

ost! we're lost!