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Title: Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: World history. (from old catalog) Biography
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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as given to Lieutenant E. De Haven, a young naval officer,who accompanied the United States exploring expedition. Dr. E. K.Kane, surgeon and naturalist, was one of the officers. The expeditionwas absent a little more than sixteen months. Off the coast of Labradorthey met an iceberg making its way toward the tropics. The night wasvery dark, and as the huge voyager had no light out, the Advancecould not be censured f:)r running foul. She was puuished, however, bythe loss of her jib-boom, as she ran against the iceberg. When the expedition reached Melville Bay, which, on account of itsfearful character, is also called the Devils Nip, the voyagers began towitness more of the grandeur and perils of Arctic scenes. Icebergs ofall dimensions came bearing down from the polar seas. They alsoencountered immense floes, with only narrow channels between, and attimes their situation was exceedingly perilous. On one occasion, afterheaving through fields of ice for five cousecutive weeks, two immense
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A PASSAGE BY FRAXKl.IX.s SlilTS. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 501 floes, between which they were making their way, gradually approachedeach other, and for several hours they expected their vessels would becrushed. An immense cake of ice, six or eight feet thick, slid underthe Rescue, lifting her almost high and dry, and careening herpartially upon her beam ends. By means of ice anchors (large ironhooks) thev kept her from capsizincr In this position they remained

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