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A VOYAGE TO SPITZ BERGEN. 
racter are exceedingly difficult to descend, but we over- 
came the difficulties, and arrived at the schooner in 
time to see all hands busily at work. For during our 
absence the ice had shifted, and, drifting down and 
across the schooner’s bows, her position had at once to 
be altered, and to do this all hands had been engaged 
upon her during the night. We were glad, then, to 
find that good fellow the cook had not forgotten us 
—far from it. “ It’s steaming ’ot, sir ! Been waiting 
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for you, sir, for the last five hours ! ” 
