THE BRIG AGROUND. 
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We grounded as the tide fell; and would have heeled 
over to seaward, but for a mass of detached land-ice 
that grounded alongside of us, and, although it stove 
our bulwarks as we rolled over it, shored us up.” 
I could hardly get to my bunk, as I went down 
into our littered cabin on the Sunday morning after 
our hard-working vigil of thirty-six hours. Bags of 
SHORED UP. 
clothing, food, tents, India-rubber blankets, and the 
hundred little personal matters which every man likes 
to save in a time of trouble, were scattered around in 
places where the owners thought they might have 
them at hand. The pemmican had been on deck, the 
boats equipped, and every thing of real importance 
ready for a march, many hours before. 
During the whole of the scenes I have been trying 
