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rays setting the winds to work tearing up the frozen Sea and in its turn draggeth forth [[strikethrough]] ice [[/strikethrough]] thin ice, rock-ladened, thus leaving a mountain ^[[partially]] [[underlined]]un [[/underlined]] - [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] boweled.[[guess]]
This Cave extend^[[ed]] in some 50 feet - perhaps some further - of height at the entrance 15 to 20 feet - width 10 feet
The strata of rocks run perpendicular - thus the sides were not of so rough, jagged character as the roof & base. Icisickles long, numerous & large were hanging from the top of the Cave giving a finish of enchantment to the scene surrounding me.
But I could not spend many minutes here as the day had been nearly consumed in pulling against winds & Sea - & the object of my visit was yet unaccomplished. Aboard, the crew resumed hard pulling for the head of the Bay - wind dead ahead. We had not proceeded far before Koo-jes-se sighted a seal floating a little distance off at our right. He prepared himself instantly for a shot. I really thought from the appearance & non action of the seal that it was a bloated, dead one. As Koo-jes-se stood up in the bow of the boat where I was, taking aim, yet holding fire while the boat was being turned & pulled toward it, I thought quietly in mind 'Now Koo-jes-se you are getting woefully fooled as much so as when you took off after an Ook-gook up at Enc. & it turned out to be Miner's Black Boat - [[underlined]] that Seal is dead! [[/underlined]] The last word hear written terminated in mind as [[underlined]] Crash [[/underlined]] went the Rifle. We had reached with in 25 feet of Seal! A floundering commenced - the Boat

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See page 432 of Hall's book.