34 THE WORLD OF ICE.

canvas, and plunged forward on her adventurous
voyage,

But this time she does not grow smaller as she
advances before the freshening breeze, for you and I,
reader, have embarked in her, and the land now fades
in the distance, until it sinks from view on the distant
horizon, while nothing meets our gaze but the vault of
the bright blue sky above, and the plane of the dark
blue sea below.