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S, and ammunition were all deposited in the boat, as well as her mast,
sail, and paddles, while her painter, attached to her sharp-pronged
grapnel, lay coiled on her half-deck forward. All that afternoon the
wind and sea arose, until, amid the drenching rain, they could hear
around them the clamor of the terrified seals, the continual crash of
breaking ice, and the sough of the heavy sea, whose spray drove over
them in constantly increasing showers. At last an occasional wave came
into the lower part of the little hollow, and all thought that the end
was near. "We must take to the boat," said Regnar. But La Salle pointed
to the ghostly crests of the surrounding seas; and bowing his head upon
his breast, Orloff signified to his friend that he acknowledged the
hopelessness of that resource. Just then a darker blackness seemed to
gather to windward, as a shriller blast whistled by them; and as all
awaited the increased fury of the elements which were to end the unequal
struggle, the wind seemed to abate, and the waves sullenly retired from
the surface of the floe. The rain still swept fiercely upon the drenched
wanderers, and on their lee they could still note the crash of
ice-islands, amid the sweep of the angry waves. But above them, huge,
unbending, and majestic, towered a lofty pile, shrouded in darkness,