The passage between the bergs now became quite straight, reasonably broad, and was so situated as regarded the gale, as to receive a full current of its force.
Then all the bergs near by began to rock as if agitated by an earthquake.
The bergs to the southward were in motion, and a large fleet of them was putting to sea, as it might be, coming in from those remote and then unknown regions in which they were formed.
Indeed, it has been thought by some speculators on the subject, that the bergs themselves are formed in part by a similar process, though snows undoubtedly are the principal element in their composition.
Roswell remonstrated ere the leading vessel entered, and pointed out to Daggett the fact that the bergs were evidently closing, each instant increasing their movement, most probably through the force of attraction.
Once or twice, Roswell mistook the summits of some of these bergs for real mountains, when, owing to the manner in which the light fell upon them, or rather did not fall upon them directly, they appeared dark and earthy.
When the bergs first break away from their native moorings, their forms are ordinarily somewhat regular; the summits commonly resembling table-land.
The great depth of the bergs still prevented their coming within the cluster of islands, while their number and size completely stopped the floes from passing.
The bergs had grounded apparently, as they drew near the group, leaving this large bay entirely free from ice, with the exception of a few small masses that were floating through it.
There is always ice on that side of the land, Hazard, and you may have seen the blink of the bergs which have hugged the cliffs in that quarter all summer.
I have less fear of the bergs now, than of the new ice and the floes.
One of them bergs has turned over, like a whale wallowing, and it has set all the others a-rocking.
In tightening the cables, we found it to have the effect of bringing the bergs in towards the shore, still further contracting our narrow basin; but anything was better than suffering them to go adrift.
We also observed that the bergs outside of her had been torn away, and set adrift by the ice.
The strong breeze continuing, and the sea rising as the open water increased in extent, our bergs were sadly washed and wasted; every hour producing a sensible and serious diminution in their bulk.
Happily, however, they did not suffer any further material disturbance, and the main body keeping at a short distance from the land until the tide had fallen, the bergs seemed to be once more firmly resting on the ground.
Hecla or the bergs to which she was attached, convinced me that very little additional pressure would tear everything away, and drive both ships on shore.
All that day we had been at sea, picking our way through mountainous bergs and hummocks, some quite sixty feet in height, while the sleds continually broke through into crevasses concealed by layers of frozen snow.
So I've heard, and we saw some bergs while coming round the Horn-- didn't we?
Fortunately, it was so calm that we scarcely moved, or the danger of driving on the ice-bergs would have been terrific.
It cleared a little about seven in the morning, and we then discovered no less than three ice-bergs to leeward.
Weave on," he said, and as she wove We told how currents in the deep, With branches from a lemon grove, Blue bergs will sweep.
The noise made by these great bergs as they ground their sides together was deafening.
It spread out as far as the eye could reach, and was covered everywhere with great snow-clad bergs of ice, except just close to the island, where it was clear, but black as ink.
These little green bergs are caught by a wave-top and hurled against the ship's side with the strength of a thousand Titans.
This berg may be twenty or thirty miles long, and every mile brings us closer to great bergs that, down yonder, float in dozens.
On the 1st and 2nd we sailed southward without seeing anything but scattered bergs and a constantly increasing number of lumps of ice, which showed us we were getting near.
The bergs were not the least worn, but looked as if they had calved quite recently.
As usual, a number of bergs of all sizes were floating on this strip, in every variety of shade from white to dark grey, as the light fell on them.
In the course of the week following March 5 the bergs became rarer, but the same kind of weather prevailed.
No one could tell but that other bergs might be ahead, or in what direction it might be necessary to steer.
Numerous other bergs appeared ahead, and as she rushed onwards, it seemed impossible that she could avoid them.
I have seen stout ships crushed in a moment between masses of ice, as if they had been made of paper, and once I saw one of those large bergs come down and overwhelm a passing ship, not a soul on board escaping.
At length the open water appeared ahead, with fewer bergs than had before been seen floating on it.
Some of them appeared like isolated fragments in the centre of a floe, and resembled the large grounded floe-bergs in the vicinity of the "Alert's" winter quarters.
To be caught between the fast closing ice and the grounded floe-bergs would be certain destruction, to escape to the southward before the pack impinged on Cape Union was quite out of the question, and to steam into the pack would be madness.
Frequently had the ice anchors to be tripped and the vessel moved, in order to avoid bergs or floes closing in upon and nipping us.
For three days were we kept in a state of feverish excitement without being able to make any progress, and yet constantly moving the ship to avoid destruction from drifting bergs and closing floes.
Fragments from these lay scattered along the coast in every direction, whilst we had to thread our way through clusters of huge bergs of every form and size.
They had already encountered a number of bergs in lat.
To the north of us the Knights Reefs ran far out to sea and on these some larger bergs had grounded.
To the north of us, many big bergscould be seen, which had come originally from Waggate Straits.
The evening was fine and we saw land to the north and dozens of bergs to the east of us.
As there were many bergs coming down and quantities of field ice at this season, we kept rather well away from the coast, along which it came.
Some small bergs were scattered over the water and a narrow shore floe was fast to the coast.
There were many tremendous bergs about and the floe was heavy.
They were in every direction and one could easily understand the hopelessness of a sailing ship's position, beset in these waters, with a gale driving bergs down upon her.
At this season, especially on very cold nights, bergs often split and turn over owing to water freezing in crevices formed by the warm summer sun, and for this reason they are avoided as much as possible.
Immediately around little but ice could be seen, with here and there some black threads of water and many great bergs scattered about.
I heard the thunder of splitting bergs several times during the night; they sounded like avalanches among the Alps in the springtime.
Not when there are icebergs floating off the banks and when the bergs carry submerged knives of ice.
They are not bergs at all, but only your good mountains, and by and by all of that ice and snow will melt and flowers will be growing there.
Where the green bergs go careening past, And the white bears gambol and fight, Where the little auks whimper and whisper a tale Of the Ice King’s palace of white.
The bergs are closing in on us," said the captain quietly.
Then, with a crash as if an earthquake had riven a mountain chain, the two bergs met.
The bergs were more than a mile long, and the vessel, under easy sail, was not making more than six knots an hour.
Other bergs floated to the southward, while to both east and west could be seen long floes of rugged ice.
Ice backed by more ice was rushing northward; winter had arrived, and new floes and bergs were forming in the west.
There are no bergs north of the Aleutians or west of Point Barrow.
Northward, bergs and floes showed, marshalled in squadrons and companies like soldiers preparing for a charge.
These will stop us at last," said Alf, pointing to the bergs with a profound sigh.
We have said that they had climbed to an elevated plateau on one of the small bergs which formed the outside margin of the rugged ice.
If these bergs came from it, we must have reached it, lad.
And yet, notwithstanding this, vast multitudes of bergs and floes, as soon as they arrived at certain points, suddenly melted away and dropt their burdens!
Surely if floating-ice was swept outwards from Great Arenig as far as Eryrys, bergs must have been carried now and again much further to the east.
He did not wish to fire his gun unless on an emergency, but he felt anxious, and the more so as the fog was encroaching; the bergs looked more terrible, the silence became more distressing.
The air became very chilly, and bergswere anticipated.
It was thus a folded, crumpled floe--a vast field of broken bergs and pans at angles.
Other bergs have been occasionally met with, at midsummer, in a state of rapid thaw, as far south as lat.
Such bergsmust be of great magnitude; because the mass of ice below the level of the water is about eight times greater than that above.
The number and dimensions of these bergs is prodigious.
We counted also above thirtybergs in sight at one time, and observed that many of them were carried about by the tides with great rapidity.
By our nearing several bergs to the northward, the ice appeared to be drifting in that direction, the wind being moderate from the southward.
Even the cascades from the bergsceased to flow, and few sounds broke the silence.
Frequently we had enough to do, as we floated among the bergs and floes, to escape those which came drifting towards us, driven on by some under-current, more than by the wind.
Many of the bergs were of the most fantastic form and brilliant colours.
We shall have to make our way in and out among the bergs and hummocks, and maybe to take a long circumbendibus to avoid any waterholes in our course; we are very likely to fall in with some, solid as the ice appears hereabouts.
Still, other bergs or floes might have to be encountered, and we knew not at what moment we might come upon them.
In a short time, however, leads between the bergs and floes opened out, the water being of the colour of lead.
Many bergs were in sight, and the course became devious.
The ship passed not fewer than five hundred bergs that day, some of them very large.
On August 27 a strong west- south-west wind sprang up and drove all this ice out of the bay, and except for some stranded bergs left a clear ice-free sea through which we finally made our way from Punta Arenas to Elephant Island.
We kept the open water for a hundred miles, passing many bergs but encountering no pack.
The 'Aurora' was held by the ice, and subjected to severe buffeting, while two bergs approached from the north.
The 'Endurance' was now close to what appeared to be the barrier, with a heavy pack-ice foot containing numerous bergs frozen in and possibly aground.
Bergs and pack are thrown up in the sky and distorted into the most fantastic shapes.
No sooner had the boat left ship than the wind freshened from the northward, and large bergs and growlers, setting into the bay, made the place untenable.
Here the bergs assume changing forms, first a castle, then a balloon just clear of the horizon, that changes swiftly into an immense mushroom, a mosque, or a cathedral.
We kept a fairly good course between two bergs to our northward and made about five miles northing till, darkness coming on, the men could no longer venture on the floes with safety to fix the anchors.
We noticed that several of the bergs in the neighbourhood of the ship were changing their relative positions more than they had done for months past.
Some anxious work remained to be done, since bergs and scattered ice extended in all directions, but at 2 p.
Numerous other bergs generally seen in silhouette are, at first sight, lost, but after a closer scrutiny they appear as large lumps or dark masses well below the horizon.
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