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ANCHOR TO A BERG. 
ing ice, small rotten floe-pieces. But for our berg, we 
would now be carried to the south; as it is, we drift 
with it to the north and east. 
“2 a.m.— The continued pressure against our berg has 
begun to affect it; and, like the great floe all around us, 
MELVILLE BAY. 
it has taken up its line of march toward the south. At 
the risk of being entangled, I ordered a light line to be 
carried out to a much larger berg, and, after four hours 
labor, made fast to it securely. This berg is a moving 
breakwater, and of gigantic proportions: it keeps its 
course steadily toward the north, while the loose ice 
