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THE BOAT CAMP. 
pace till they had brought us to our companions on 
the floe. 
They had wisely halted on account of the storm; 
and, with their three little boats drawn up side by side 
for mutual protection, had been lying to for the past 
BOAT'S CAMP IN A STORM. 
two days, tightly housed, and moored first by wliale-lines 
to the ice. But the drifts had almost buried the 
“Hope,” which was the windward boat; and when I 
saw the burly form of Brooks emerging from the snow- 
covered roof, I could have fancied it a walrus rising 
through the ice. 
