A GREENLAND ICEBERG. 



CHAPTER III. 



SUMMER CKUISE OF THE NEPTUNE IN 1904. 



HUDSON BAY. 



THE anchor was hoisted and the moorings to the ice cast off at 

 two o'clock on the morning of the 18th of July, when the 

 Neptune proceeded to break her way out of Fullerton harbour, 

 after having been nine months there fast frozen in the ice. 

 Little difficulty was experienced in breaking the harbour ice, 

 when, following a pilot boat, the narrow eastern entrance was 

 soon passed and the ship was once more free. Loose stringers 

 of small ice extended a few miles from the shore, after which 

 only occasional lumps were seen during the day, as the ship 



