CHAPTER VI. 
CLOSING WITH THE ICE-REFUGE HARBOR — DOGS-WALRUS — 
NARWHAL — ICE-HILLS-BEACON-CAIRN-ANCHORED TO A BERG 
-ESQUIMAUX HUTS-PETER FORCE BAY-CAPE CORNELIUS 
GRINNELL-SHALLOWS-A GALE-THE RECREANT DOGS. 
“August 8, Monday.—I had seen the ominous blink 
ahead of us from the Flagstaff Point of Littleton Island; 
and before two hours were over, we closed with ice to 
the westward. It was in the form of a pack, very 
heavy, and several seasons old; but we stood on, 
boring the loose stream-ice, until we had passed some 
forty miles beyond Cape Life-boat Cove. Here it be¬ 
came impossible to force our way farther; and, a dense 
fog gathering round us, we were carried helplessly to 
the eastward. We should have been forced upon the 
Greenland coast; but an eddy close in shore released 
us for a few moments from the direct pressure, and we 
were fortunate enough to get out a whale-line to the 
rocks and warp into a protecting niche. 
“ Li the evening I ventured out again with the change 
of tide, but it was only to renew a profitless conflict. 
The flood, encountering the southward movement of 
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