A RUN OF FISH. 
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CHAPTER XI. 
“ A RUN OF FISH.”—FIVE VEKY LARGE WHALES STRUCK, 
AND THREE OF THEM CAPTURED, IN ONE DAY.-ICE 
FORMED ON THE SEA, THE AIR REING ABOVE THE 
FREEZING TEMPERATURE.-SURVEYS AND RESEARCH¬ 
ES CONTINUED.-ADVENTURES OF SOME OF THE FAME’S 
CREWON SHORE.-TREMENDOUS GALE.—SHIP GROUND¬ 
ED UPON A SHELF OF ICE, SQUEEZED OFF AGAIN, AND 
PROVIDENTIALLY RESCUED FROM A SITUATION OF EX¬ 
TREME PERIL.-SURVEY OF THE COAST CONCLUDED. 
-INDICATIONS OF APPROACHING WINTER.—FINAL 
DEPARTURE FROM THE COAST. 
During the six preceding weeks, our search 
for whales proved almost wholly unsuccessful,— 
few of these animals, not perhaps a dozen in all, 
having been seen in this long interval, of which, 
a small one only became our prize. The fishing 
season was now drawing to a close;—the land had 
already assumed its winter covering of snow,—the 
sea began to freeze in the evenings,—and the 
gloom produced by the departure of the sun every 
night, marked the approach of winter, and warned 
us, that the time for leaving the coast was almost 
at hand. The only hope of additional success. 
