Recruited for the Arctic.--Departure.--Coast of Kamtschatka.-- Copper Island.--Going into the Ice with Captain Crosby.--Gale of Wind.--Dangerous Sailing in the Ice.--Captain Thaddeus. --Bay of the Holy Cross.--Plover Bay.--Dead Whale.--St. Lawrence Bay.--Whales working north.--Loose, floating Ice.-- Ice covered with Walrus.--Fine Weather.--Striking an Iceberg. --Ship leaking.--Return to St. Lawrence Bay.--Damage repaired.--Arrival in the Arctic 43 CHAPTER III. Northern Lights.--High Winds.--Spoke with Captain Clough. --Ships seen in the Distance.--Storm increasing.--No Observations.--Blowing heavily.--Scene awfully sublime.-- Ship struck by a Sea.--Shoal Water.--Rocks and Breakers.-- Ship unmanageable.--Fore and mizzen Topsails carried away.-- Ship striking astern, bow, and midships.--Foremast cut away. --Narrow Escape of Captain Norton.--Mizzenmast gone by the Board.--Sad Condition of the Seamen.--Land in Sight--Ship drifting towards the Shore.--Undertow.--The Lantern Keg. --Mainmast cut away, and falling towards the Shore.--Men escaping on the Mast.--Trying Scene.--Captain washed ashore. --Affecting Deaths.--Wreck piled up on Shore.--Fire made.-- Men perishing with Cold.--Five missing.--Prospects dark.-- Destitution.--Tent erected.--Merciful Circumstances connected with the Wreck 53 CHAPTER IV. First Night on Shore.--Sleeping in empty Casks.--Parties of Exploration.--Dog Tracks.--Arrangements to leave the Wreck. --Desire to reach East Cape.--Reflections upon our Condition. --The dead Hog roasted.--The "pet Hog."--Company travel towards the South and East.--Two Natives seen.--Parley.-- Directed to the Settlement.--The old Woman and her Ceremony.-- The second Settlement.--Head Man cordial.--Men distributed among the Huts.--Not able to reach East Cape.--Company entertained.--Motives for it.--Government should reward the Natives 72 CHAPTER V. No Prospect of reaching East Cape.--Painful Conviction.-- The Province of Christian Faith.--The Wreck visited.--The Natives.--Hope unexpectedly revived.--Ship in Sight.--Comes near.--Signals from the Land.--No Assistance offered.-- Sails down the Coast.--Indescribable State of our Minds.-- Card in The Polynesian 90 CHAPTER VI.