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Landlocked and secure, the crew of the Pole Star worked out the day by odd jobs about the deck. Stirling heard them swabbing down, and caught the cockney accent of the mate raised in cheerful encouragement as the skipper sent forward more grog.
The long Arctic day died slowly out over the waters of the Bering and the Gulf of Anadir. The waves wh