LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS 
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Then that mighty power swept on, and made 
her timbers quiver, 
And the gazers gave a rending shout as she 
went down the river : 
Storm came on at length, but wave nor wind could 
yet her course impede, 
She braved a fiercely surging sea, as a strong 
man braves his steed. 
The Victory in Felix Harbour, appeared like some sheer hulk, 
which might once have “ borne the battle and the breeze,” and 
which like the dowager, might have been an object of attraction 
in the earlier days of her existence, but now divested of all her 
ornaments, and even of her useful appendages, would be deemed 
to be worthy only to be broken up, and her once proud form 
consigned to purposes of an ignoble nature. 
On the 30th the horizon being very clear the officers went on 
a shooting excursion, Commander Ross saw nine grouse, but 
killed only one, in fact it was found that the animals and birds 
in the immediate vicinity, had discovered that their greatest 
enemy had come amongst them, and therefore they acquired that 
natural shyness, which the majority of animals assume when 
under the dominion of men. 
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