22 Dangers on the Ocean. 



(Show the difference on the chart.) 



23. If you should cross the ocean, you would 

 see nothing about your ship but the water and 

 the sky ; and, as the vessel would cut through 

 the great rolling waves, it would go up and 

 down like a rocking-chair. In a storm, how- 

 ever, the waves rise terribly high and beat over; 

 the ship, which tumbles and plunges and rolls 

 violently, sometimes nearly covered over with 

 the waves. Then the passengers must be down- 

 stairs or they would be washed overboard. 



24. Are there any other dangers to be feared at sea ? 

 Dangers from one ship running into another at night or 

 against an iceberg, or from the ship taking fire. 



What is an iceberg ? A greafmass of floating ice reaching 

 far above and below the surface of the water. Icebergs 

 come from the cold regions of the Arctic Ocean and 

 northern parts of North America. 



25. Do men ever sail into those cold, dangerous regions, 

 where they are constantly surrounded by ice and icebergs ? 

 They do. Why ? To find a new passage across the Arctic 

 Ocean, or to reach the most northerly part of the earth, called 

 the North Pole. 



26. What dangers attend these voyages ? Some ships 

 have been crushed by fields of ice or by icebergs, and the crews 

 perished from hunger and cold. Mention a celebrated Eng- 

 lish explorer who was lost in the Arctic regions? Sir 

 John Franklin. 



SPELL AND DEFINE Waves, region, hunger, 

 iceberg, floating, northern, surface, danger, over- 

 board, perished, explorer, dangerous, English. 



