Dodging The Ice. The Corwin Hard Pressed-Crowded by the Drifted Pack on a Lee Shore-An Esquimo Baby-Repairing the Damages to the Ship-The Wreck of the Schooner-Loleta-Plover Bay. Steamer Corwin, Plover Bay, June 15, 1881.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Arctic; Plover Bay; The Schooner
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/158; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1157/viewcontent/116.pdf

Written, June 15, Pub. July 13 1881 BODUiKG THE ICE. y v* x. '? 'Hip CrwiB Hard Pressed—Crowded lj- the Biifted f:icl on a l-ee S&ore—AuJS&quimo Baby — Kepatrina: t&e Damages to t!ie febap—T5:e Wreck of Hie schooner l/i.-leta —Plover Hay. Steamer Written, June 15, 1861 Pub. July 13 ? ;, • ! -ifie / struck the ship and made her tremble in every jointj then another and another in quick succession, while the anchor was being hurriedly raised. The situation we suddenly found ourselves in was quite serious. The ice, had it been like that about the ship of the Ancient Maiiaer—" here and there and all around"— would have raised but little apprehension, but it was only on one side of lis, while a rockV beach was close by on the other, and against this beach in our disabled condition the ice was steadily driving us. Whether backing or going- ahead in so crowded a bit of water the result for some time was only so many shoves toward shore./ At length a block of small size, Q§) or '.dp feet in diameter, drifted in between us and the shore, and by steaming against it and striking it on the landward bow she glinted .poBBd head to the pack, and au opening allowftgTap- entrance to be made occurring, she. was soon" safe in the middle of it. and in an hour or two worked out into open water. .—. .,_9EHE WRECK OE THE~HSiE!L ~—- After the fog lifted we went again iu search of the Loleta, and discovered her five or six miles below the Esquimo village. Dropping anchor at the edge of a sheet of "firm shore-ice, we went across it to the wreck to see whether we could not get some pintles from it for our rudder. We found her rudder had been carried away, but procured some useful irons, blocks, tackle, etc. HINTS OE ARCTIC STEISra". , Back a hundred yards from the beach 1 found a few hints of the coming spring, though most of the ground is still covered with snow. The dwarf willow is beginning to put out its calkins, and a few buds of saxifrages, erigejous and heathw-sfrts are beginning to swell. The -bulk of the vegetation is ...