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earthly power could keep her from capsizing. For perhaps a minute,
(it seemed to me a week) the vibrations continued, then with a
lift and lurch of the stern, they ceased, The danger was past.
The Hope's momentum had carried her over the reef.
From Cape York I steamed away for Cape Sabins, but the
next morning off Wolstemholme Island a furious Arctic gale de-
scended upon the ship, against which she was barely able to fight
her way inch by inch, to safety under the lee of the island,
where for 36 hours she dodged back and forth, a phantom ship, her
decks deep with snow, her spars, sails and rigging crusted with the
frozen crystals; while I, with four of my bravest Eskimos worked
like miners in our timber cage under the meteorite, lowering it
with hydraulic jacks, inch by inch and foot by foot, in order to
get it low enough not to endanger the ship's safety. All this time
the furious wind howled through the Hope's tense rigging, as if
the demon of the Sa-vik-soah were shrieking at us.
The superstitious ones on board were now more firmly
convinced than ever that we should never reach home, and that this
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