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Title: A voyage of discovery towards the North Pole : performed in His Majesty's ships Dorothea and Trent, under the command of Captain David Buchan, R.N.; 1818 : to which is added, a summary of all the early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856
Subjects: Buchan, David, b. 1780 Dorothea (Ship) Trent (Ship) Arctic regions
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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lstaggered under the shock, and for a momentseemed to recoil; but the next wave, curling upunder her counter, drove her about her own lengthwithin the margin of the ice, where she gave oneroll, and was immediately thrown broadside to thewind by the succeeding wave, which beat furi-ously against her stern, and brought her lee-sidein contact with the main body, leaving her wea-ther-side exposed at the same time to a piece ofice about twice her own dimensions. This unfor-tunate occurrence prevented the vessel penetrat-ing sufficiently far into the ice to escape theeffect of the gale, and placed her in a situationwhere she was assailed on all sides by battering-rams, if I may use the expression, every one ofwhich contested the small space which she occu-pied, and dealt such unrelenting blows that thereappeared to be scarcely any possibility of savingher from foundering. Literally tossed from pieceto piece, we had nothing left but patiently toabide the issue, for we could scarcely keep our
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1=) - • A LAST RESOURCE. 125 feet, much less render any assistance to the vessel.The motion, indeed, was so great, that the shipsbell, which in the heaviest gale of wind hadnever struck of itself, now tolled so continuallythat it was ordered to be muffled, for the pur-pose of escaping the unpleasant association it wascalculated to produce. In anticipation of theworst, we determined to attempt placing thelaunch upon the ice under the lee, and hurriedinto her such provisions and stores as could atthe moment be got at. Serious doubts werereasonably entertained of the boat being ableto live amongst the confused mass by whichwe were encompassed; yet, as this appeared tobe our only refuge, we clung to it with all theeagerness of a last resource. After some time had elapsed without any im-provement in our situation, and when, on the con-trary, it became more and more evident, from theinjury the vessel repeatedly received, that shecould not hold together very long, we wereconvinced that our

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