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THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



hours. Then came the difficult work of getting the boats 

 and sleds through the very rough and broken ice-fringe along 

 shore. 



About six P. M. we had succeeded in reaching some smooth 

 pieces near the south cape, and there we camped down, each 

 tent being on a separate piece of floe. There was a solid 

 breakwater outside of us, consequently we were not in any 

 great danger, though the blocks we were on were sometimes 

 in motion as the tide rose and fell. At this point the sides of 



A LAND-SLIDE. 



the island were very bold and steep, composed of trap-rock 

 and a lava-like soil, very dry, so much so that frequent 

 land-slides were occurring all the time we were there. Mr. 

 Collins and I took a walk over the rough ice and along the 



