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

CHAPTER XXXIII.

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On Board the Schooner.--Review of the Journey.--The Return down Kennedy Channel.--A Severe March in a Snow-Storm.--Rotten Ice.--Effects of a Gale.--Returning through the Hummocks.--The Dogs breaking down.--Adrift on a Floe at Cairn Point.--The Open Water compels us to take to the Land.--Reaching the Schooner.--Projecting a Chart.--The New Sound.--My Northern Discoveries

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