They might have laid up provisions for many months long before winter set in." "I know all that," replied Fred, with a shake of his head; "but think of yon brig that we saw go down in about ten minutes." "Well, so I do think of it.

No doubt the brig was lost very suddenly, but there was ample time, had there been any one on board, to have leaped upon the ice, and they might have got to land by jumping from one piece to another.

Such things have happened before frequently.

To say truth, at every point of land we turn, I feel a sort of expectation amounting almost to certainty that we shall find your father and his party travelling southward on their way to the Danish settlements." "Perhaps you are right.

God grant that it may be so!" As he spoke, they reached the fixed ice which ran along the foot of the precipices for some distance like a road of hard white marble.