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THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



These soft rolling ripples of light seemed to depart from the 

 periphery with irregularity, although they started from the 

 center as if a pebble had been dropped there. Sometimes 

 they would depart from the rim with the same regularity as 

 they started; and then again they seemed to hurry off on 

 one side and delay on the other, giving the sun, for an 

 instant, an oblong appearance. This midnight sun was not 

 alone sensible to the eye; one could feel its rays, which 

 burned the skin with the copper warmth of Indian summer 

 days." 



At Bell Sound, where they arrived August 3d, three wal- 

 rus-hunting schooners were anchored in the gale that was 



GLACIERS AT BELL SOUND. 



blowing on a lee-shore, just in front of a magnificent gla- 

 cier; and, viewed across the bay, they seemed mere specks 

 against the marble-white face of the towering ice. A whale- 

 boat was sent to one of them to deliver circulars respecting 

 the Jeannette; and then the Alliance steamed onward to 

 Green Bay, Ice Fiord, where a Norwegian steamer and sev- 

 eral sailing vessels were anchored. Another vessel, which 

 had been wrecked only two days previously, lay stranded on 



