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ATTEMPT TO EMBARK. 
liad been ’long brooding now began to dash a heavy 
wind-Upper against the floe, and obliged us to retreat 
before it, hauling our boats back with each fresh 
breakage of the ice. It rose more fiercely, and we 
were obliged to give way before it still more. Our 
LIDDING GOOD-BTE. 
goods, which had been stacked upon the ice, had to be 
carried farther inward. We Avorked our way back 
thus, step by step, before the breaking ice, for about 
two hundred yards. At last it became apparent that 
the men must sleep and rest, or sink; and, giving 
up for the present all thoughts of embarking, I hauled 
