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it yielded; and as bears, house, myself, and some tone of water,
went crashing into the lee scuppers, I heard the rattle of the
rudder chains and the burr of the wheel as the helmsman with
all the fierceness of desperation whirled the heam hard-a-lee;
felt the wild heave and staggering plunge of the Hope followed
however by no thundrous plungs of water on deck and a minute
later as I energed from the seathing chaos, clinging to a rope
end I saw the crest of a giant sea, such as the breath of an
Atctic hurricane alone can raise in Davis' Strait hissing away
into the grey green gloom to leeward.
Not until I had seen
the bear's house lashed with turn after turn of heavy line did
below
I go to get on dry clothes.
After this with lifeline stretched along the deck the
man at the wheel lashed to his post, and a preventer line rigged
to keep the wheel from being torn from his grasp by the battering
seas, the Hope rolled dizzily throughb the remaining hours of
the night till the grey light of dawn began to filter through
the tumult.
Time after time the lee dead eyes were under
water, and as the Hope leaned and wavered and hesitated with
her lee rail out of sight , and the boiling tumult to leeward
seathing up to the side of the companionway, it seemed as if
she would never right.
Through it all the two bears kept up
a hoarse roaring and frm foreward between the crashing of the
waves, rose the shrill howls of my poor dogs tied in the fore-
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