It was a vast, majestic mass, rising from forty to fifty feet above the water, and covering three or four acres.

On the south, south-east, and east sides it rose almost perpendicularly from the sea.

No chance to scale it here; and, even if there had been, the water was much too rough to the windward to bring the boat up to it.

We continued around it, however, and, near the north-west corner, espied a large crevice leading up toward the top, and filled with broken ice.
"Might clamber up there," suggested the captain.
It looked a little pokerish.
"Let's try it," said Kit.
The boat was brought up within a yard or so of the ice.

Watching his chance, Capt.