The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"

CHAPTER VIII. SLOW PROGRESS THROUGH THE ICE.

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Cape Hawks and Dobbin Bay, 83; discovery of an ancient cairn, 85; cutting a dock, 87; struggles through the ice, 90; dangerous position, 91; Cape Fraser, 92; junction of two tides, 92; Cape John Barrow, 93; Cape Collinson, 94; heavy squalls, 95; increasing thickness of floes, 96; icebergs decreasing in number, 96.