I propose that we circumnavigate it in the boat.

Perhaps we may find a chance to climb on to it." It was already light; and, by the time breakfast was over, the rain had subsided to a drizzly mist: but the fog was still too thick to see far in any direction.

The sea continued comparatively calm.

A few minutes after seven, the boat was lowered.

Raed and the rest of us boys, with the captain and Weymouth, got in, and pulled round to the windward of the berg.