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hardly reached the ice on the 9th, when she came into col- 

 lision with it ; five of her timbers had been stove in, and an 

 enormous leak had followed. Becoming water-logged, she 

 was run ashore, the first time at Onundarfiord, and again in 

 Reykjavik roads, whither she had been brought with the 

 greatest difficulty," * 



