CHAPTER XXVII. 
A LOOK-OUT-PROVIDENCE HALT — THE GLACIER-PROVIDENCE 
DIET. 
Once through the barrier, the leads began to open 
again, and on the 11th we found ourselves approaching 
Cape Dudley Digges, with a light breeze from the north¬ 
west. It looked for some hours as if our troubles were 
over, when a glacier came in sight not laid down on 
the charts, whose tongue of floe extended still farther 
out to sea than the one we had just passed with so 
much labor. Our first resolve was to double it at all 
hazards, for our crews were too much weakened to 
justify another tracking through the hummocks, and 
the soft snow which covered the land-floes was an 
obstacle quite insuperable. Nevertheless, we forced 
our way into a lead of sludge, mingled with the com¬ 
minuted ice of the glacier; but the only result was a 
lesson of gratitude for our escape from it. Our frail 
and weather-worn boats were quite unequal to the 
duty. 
I again climbed the nearest berg,—for these ice-moun- 
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