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AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT. dogs which were on the ship were in sore distress.

But behold on the eighth day there came a calm and the waters were stilled, and the winds did cease their raging.

And the wise men did again begin to take sustenance, which they had not done for many days, by reason of their interiors being disturbed by the tossing of the ship.

Yet were they not healed, for when the sun had set, another storm arose, so that many and oft were their journeyings from Oyster Alley where they did live, to that side of the ship which the sailors call the lee.

¶ Now after many days of sore travail and danger, for oft times the ship was threatened by mighty islands of ﬂoating ice;

They did come to that great high wall of ice which is there set up, and which is called the Great Ice Barrier.

And there did they diligently search for a certain haven in which to place the ship, and in which the ship Discovery had rested beforetime, but lo! it was not.

Then turned they the ship towards the rising of the sun, and would have gone to that land which has