He has got some mighty hard, painful lessons to learn before he will be able to start right in life.
Raed and the captain had stopped.
"They were right opposite here, over among the ice," Raed was saying.
"I marked the spot by that high cake sticking up above the rest." "We need scaling-ladders to get up among it," laughed Kit.

"Talk of impenetrable jungles! here is a jungle of ice!" Imagine, reader, a thousand ice-cakes from six to thirty feet square, and of every grade of thickness, piled sidewise, edgewise, slantwise, cross-wise, and flatwise on top of that, and you may, perhaps, gain some idea of the vast jam which filled the arm and lay heaped up twenty and thirty feet above us.

For a moment we were at a loss how to surmount it; then all began looking along for some available cranny or rift which might offer a foothold.
"Here's a breach!" Weymouth shouted.
He had gone along a dozen rods farther.

We followed to see him mounting by the jagged edge of a vast cake five or six feet thick which projected out over the ledges.

Kit followed; and they stood at the top, stretching down helping hands.