The body was then spiked to them, and the howitzer lifted up and set on the carriage.

By way of testing it, we then charged the piece with half a pint of powder, and fired it.

The sharp, brassy report was reverberated from the dark mountains on the starboard side in a wonderfully distinct echo.

Hundreds of seals dropped off the ice-cakes into the sea all about,--a fact I observed with some mortification.

As the guns would have to remain on deck, exposed to fog and rain, we stopped the muzzles with plugs, and covered them with two of our rubber blankets.