THE ICE-BELT. 
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We rested on the floe. We could not raise our tent, 
for it had frozen as hard as a shingle. But our buffalo- 
robe bags gave us protection; and, though we were too 
wet inside to be absolutely comfortable, we managed to 
ICE-BELT OF OCTOBER. 
get something like sleep before it was light enough for 
us to move on again. 
The journey was continued in the same way; but 
we found to our great gratification that the cracks 
closed with the change of the tide, and at high-water 
we succeeded in gaining the ice-belt under the cliffs. 
This belt had changed very much since my journey in 
Vol. I.—9 
