BONSALL S ADVENTURE. 
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NEWFOUNDLAND DOG TEAM. 
ice-cracks; my team of Newfoundlanders leaping them 
in almost every instance, and the impulse of our 
sledge carrying it across. On one occasion, while we 
were making these flying leaps, poor Bonsall was 
tossed out, and came very near being carried under 
by the rapid tide. He fortunately caught the runner 
of the sledge as he fell, and I succeeded, by whipping 
up the dogs, in hauling him out. He was, of course, 
wet to the skin; but we were only twenty miles from 
the brig, and he sustained no serious injury from his 
immersion. 
