CARNARIA. - CARNIVORA. 



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to thirty-five hands, many of whom are provided 

 with large guns, and the rest with stout clubs or 

 " bats." Each man has also a " gaff," or pole, pro- 

 vided with a hook at the end, to assist him in leap- 

 ing from pan to pan when among loose ice. From 

 the 1st to the 10th of March they endeavour to 

 get out, but it frequently happens that the har- 

 bours are frozen over to the depth of several 

 feet. In this case the crews of all the vessels in 

 the port unite to cut with ice-saws a broad channel 

 through the midst of the harbour to the open sea ; 

 and as these united crews sometimes amount to two 

 thousand men, it may reasonably be supposed that 

 the broad icy plain displays a scene of no ordinary 

 animation and excitement. Each individual craft 

 has to make good its own passage into the common 



A CUTTING OUT. 



