Indeed, were it not for the great bodies of ice, these extreme northern summers, where the sun hardly sets for months, would get insufferably hot,--too hot to be endured by man.
The mist steamed silently up, up.

Gradually the islands, the crags, and even objects at the schooner's length, grew indistinct, and dimmed out entirely by half-past ten.

We heard the "_honk, honk_," of numerous wild-geese from the islands; and, high overhead, the melancholy screams of "boatswains." Otherwise all was quiet.

The watch was arranged among the sailors, and we went to bed.

For the last sixty hours we had had not over seven hours of sleep.