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peak. Suddenly the enginesr stopped. What was up now! A
hurried inquiry and investigation showed that a rope from the
gear of the lost boat was fouledd in the propellor.
We
could not spare the propellor now. It was holding our head
to the sea and it must be started at any cost and cut or wear
away the fouled line. "Pull her wide open" down the engind-
room transom and after a few moments delay, to my intense re-
lief there ran from stern to stem a wrenching, grinding tremor
sensible above all the shocks of pounding waves .
The pro- -
pellor had started, then it stopped, then started again, stop-
ed once a
morem then in labored irregular way which however gradually
grew more easy went on uninterruptedly. That menace was past.
As the daylight grew more pronounced till I could see
the length of the ship it showd that everything that had been
left on deck, including the galley, the spare rudder and the
saluting cannon had carried away into the lee scuppers.
0
Turning from the ship, an inferna of Arctic hellishness, a
tumultuous horde of furious, scurged, bitter cold waves rose
out of the windward greyness and tossed up their heads only to
be lashed dwn by the merciless wind until in savage revenge
they swept down upon the Hope/like Arctic wolves, and poured
over her trembling rail as if to devour her. Crouched behind
the weather rail, with eyes just pupil width above it fascinated
I watched the turmoil. The wind, resistless and sonorous as
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