The Open Polar Sea A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"

CHAPTER XXVI.

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The First Day's Journey.--A Fall of Temperature.--Its Effect upon the Men.--Camped in a Snow-Hut.--The Second Day's Journey.--At Cairn Point.--Character of the Ice.--The Prospect.--Storm-stayed.--The Cooks in Difficulty.--Snow-Drift.--Violence of the Gale.--Our Snow-Hut

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