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CAUGHT IN THE ICE. 



him out to his companions. Immediately he was taken 

 on board ; and restoratives were administered to him ; but 

 it was some time before he recovered from the effects of 

 the exposure. When picked up, his clothes were frozen 

 hard on his body. As for the whale, it is satisfactory to 

 know that he was eventually killed, when the harpoons 

 with which he had been wounded in the first encounter 

 were recovered. 



CAUGHT IN THE ICE. 



Sometimes the whaling-ship as in the case of the Tay 

 and the Arctic, two Dundee vessels, in the season of 

 1874 is caught in the ice; and all the efforts of her 

 crew to extricate her proving fruitless, they are compelled 

 to take to their boats, until rescued by some more fortun- 

 ate vessel, or they make their way over the ice-fields to 

 the nearest settlement. 



