Chapter 26 RETURN OF ALL THE SLEDGE TRAVELLERS.

"Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost

Her snow-white robes, and now no more the frost

Candies the grass, or calls an icy cream

Upon the silver lake or crystal stream,

But the warm sun thaws the benumbed earth."

Carew.

The hearty welcome we received from one and all on board the "Alert," together with the indescribable p

            
            

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