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vessel began to move, and in heavy patches came toward the ship. 

 All the crew had retired to rest except the captain and myself, 

 but the men were quickly called up to ward off the threatened 

 danger. On came the ice, directly toward the ship. A portion 

 struck the cable, and strained it till the metal tinkled like steel. 

 Fortunately, a projecting point of Cooper's Island partly arrested 

 the entire floe of ice, and thus broke the shock ; yet the strain 

 upon the ship's cable was intense. Men were ordered to get over 

 the bow on to the floe with chisels and other implements, to cut 

 away that portion pressing upon the chains, which was done aft- 

 er some hard work. But we fully believed the ship was drag- 

 ging her anchor, and at this precise moment, lo ! the immortal 

 Rescue was seen, like the ghost in Hamlet, emerging from the 

 mist, and moving on from near Cooper's Island straight to the 

 very spot where she had been at anchor when overtaken by the 

 hurricane which had wrecked her. The instant she was discov- 

 ered, an exclamation burst from the crew that the very acme of 

 bad luck seemed to have reached them ! They never could do 



THE GHOST. 



any thing until that curse was out of sight ! Indeed, some of the 

 expressions used about her were much stronger, and certainly, to 



