CHAPTER III.
Cape Resolution .-- The Entrance into Hudson's Straits .-- The Sun in the North-east .-- The Resolution Cliffs .-- Sweating among Icebergs .-- A Shower and a Fog .-- An Anxious Night .-- A Strange Rumbling .-- Singular Noises and Explosions .-- Running into an Iceberg .-- In Tow .-- A Big Hailstone drops on Deck .-- Boarding an Iceberg .-- Solution of the Explosions .-- A Lucky Escape.
"Land and ice, land and ice, ho!" sang out our old sea-dog from his lookout in the bow.
'Twas the morning of the 7th of July.

We had expected to make Cape Resolution the evening before.

Kit and I had been on deck till one o'clock, watching in the gleaming twilight.

Never shall I forget those twilights.

The sun was not out of sight more than three hours and a half, and the whole northern semicircle glowed continuously.