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whom we had so long sought. I flew as fast as my limbs would 

 carry me. A few moments found me grasping his arm. It was 

 as cold and rigid as the monuments of ice around us ! 



" Deep silence reigned for a while, as our little company of four 

 stood around the frozen body of John Brown. There, in the 

 midst of the little circle, lay the form of him who was lost, but 

 now found. But oh, what a finding! Spare me from the like 

 again ! 



" I had hoped to find the lost man — to have become a guide to 

 him — to have given hope to the despairing — to have saved human 

 life ; and yet how thankful I felt that his fate had been truthful- 

 ly determined. 



" Evidently, from his tracks and the rigidness of his limbs, John 

 had died some time in the morning. From the iceberg for a dis- 

 tance of two miles the footprints were quite fresh compared with 

 the tracks we had seen leading to it. It is quite likely that in 

 the covered shelving of the iceberg, whither he made his way so 

 desperately, he spent some of his time in resting — perhaps sleep- 

 ing. It was almost a sleep of death, for his tracks indicated fee- 



