OFF STOROE. 
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In the morning of the 24th we made the pack; 
more to the south, therefore, than last year. It ap- 
peared at first Hke a firm neck, extending out among 
heavy hergs well into Haroe Island ; and remember- 
ing our last year's experience, we moved cautiously. 
But after a while, our captain, now perhaps the best 
ice-master afloat, determined on boring. The dolphin- 
striker was triced up, the boats were taken on board, 
and the old sounds of conning the helm began again. 
This time we were lucky. In four hours we were 
through the tongue of the pack, and out in nearly an 
open sea. 
We did not move long, however, before the navi- 
gation became embarrassed. The ice between Cape 
Lawson and Storoe was too compact to be wedged 
aside ; and after some rude encounters with the floes, 
and a narrow escape from a reef of rocks which Cap- 
tain Graah's charts do not mention, we found our- 
selves, on the 25th, nearly embayed by the noble head- 
lands off" Ovinde Oerme. The ice, in a horseshoe 
