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reached the icy barrier. For myself, I indeed felt worse for the 

 fatigues and anxieties I had undergone ; but I was able to attend to all 

 my duties, and considered myself amply repaid for my impaired health 

 by the important discoveries we had made, and the success that had 

 attended our exertions. 



I shall now leave the Vincennes to pursue her route northward, and 

 return to the Porpoise, the result of whose proceedings will be detailed 

 in the following chapter. 



ICE-ISLAND. 



