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Title: Ice-bound on Kolguev : a chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the natural history of the island
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochfort
Subjects: Natural history -- Arctic regions Kolgujef (Russia) Polar regions
Publisher: Westminster : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ay through. But, finding that the ice waspacked hard against the land, he had been compelled tobeat a retreat; and the Saxon, now under less than halfsteam, was feeling her way north-west along the edge ofthe pack. Before I go any further, it may be as well to saysomething about the nature of this ice ; for after we hadonce left it we saw nothing of exactly the same characteragain. This ice, then, taken as a whole, was Mat—almosttabular. There were of course odd pieces and aggrega-tions which were considerably thicker, but the generalrun of it was, say, some foot and a half higher than thewater. The colour varied from pure white to a peculiargreen, with here and there a darker dirty piece, whichhad evidently grounded somewhere. The green colouris very characteristic of White Sea ice, and I have littledoubt that this, the ice which first obstructed us, hadcome from the White Sea. There was a certain amount of movement noticeablehere and there away out over the pack, but on the whole,
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*, en<O S3 <S4 a- to to o tou VARDO TO KOLGUEV 29 far as one could see from the bridge, the blocks werepretty much welded together. But round the edge of the pack itself all was movement.For the ice here was of course quite loose in character,and the floating blocks were spinning round as theystruck one another, forming and re-forming little patchesof clear water which closed and opened ceaselessly. Every Arctic seaman who has spoken to me of thissince, has remarked that the ice was unusually late inthose seas this year. And it certainly was rather a facerto have met with it so soon. A Hammerfest owner of walrus sloops had told methe year before that I should have nothing whatever todo with ice at this time of year. And of course ourlittle craft was in no way fitted for such an encounter.Had it come to a choice of forcing a passage or of retreatwe must have turned tail. But fortunately it never cameto that. When we first came up on deck we were steering-north-east, with the Kani

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