LIFE AMONG THE ICEBERGS. 938

 

of May. On the 26th of July they were
heard from at Melville Bay. But since
that date, nothing which can be relied
upon has been heard from them. There
can be no doubt that they have all
-perished. How, we cannot tell. The
navigation in that country is very dan-
gerous, and in any one of many different
ways they may have lost their lives.
Perhaps their vessels were crushed be-
tween two fields of ice, blown together
by the wind; and it may be they
reached the land, and died from hunger
and cold, amid the snows of a polar
winter. Several vessels were sent out