Here we made fast in sixty-two fathoms water, running our hawsers far in
upon the ice, in case of its breaking off at the margin.
CHAPTER III.
Winter Arrangements.--Improvements in Warming and Ventilating the
Ships.--Masquerades adopted as an Amusement to the
Men.--Establishment of Schools.--Astronomical
Observations.--Meteorological Phenomena.
_Oct_.--Our present winter arrangements so closely resembled, in
general, those before adopted, that a fresh description of them would
prove little more than a repetition of that already contained in the
narratives of our former voyages.
To those who read, as well as to those who describe, the account of a
winter passed in these regions can no longer be expected to afford the
interest of novelty it once possessed; more especially in a station
already delineated with tolerable geographical precision on our maps,
and thus, as it were, brought near to our firesides at home.
Independently, indeed, of this circumstance, it is hard to conceive any
one thing more like another than two winters passed in the higher
latitudes of the Polar Regions, except when variety happens to be
afforded by intercourse with some other branch of "the whole family of
man.
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