WESTWARD WITH THE SHIP. 



walls of rock ? A white speck 

 the steam-whistle to try 

 and blow a little life into 

 it, but there was not a 

 movement. No, it could 

 not be a bear not of the 

 real kind, at any rate, for 

 the whistle would cer- 

 tainly have made it give 

 some sign of life. Prob- 

 ably it was a white stone ; 

 at all events, that is what 

 we took it to be. After 

 passing a little island due 

 north of Cape Vera we 

 called it afterwards ' Sankt 

 Helena ' we set the course 

 for Cardigan Strait. 



We still had the current 

 hard against us, and so 

 strong that we did not 

 make many miles during 

 a watch. But we hardly 

 came across ice all through 

 the night, only here and 

 there a little strip which 

 had drifted across the strait. 

 It was a matter of no diffi- 

 culty to force the ship 

 through this, although the 

 current kept the ice very 

 close. 



On Norfolk Inlet, as 

 we passed by it, the ice 

 was lying, but whether it 

 was fast ice or drift ice we 

 could not make out with 



was it a bear, perhaps ? I pulled 



