Chapter 17 INTO FORBIDDEN WATERS

The long Northern day died at last as the Pole Star drove south and west through the ice-flecked waters of the Bering Sea.

Night shaded overhead and the wind sank to a following breeze which flapped the sails on the polished spars. Steam was got up in the boilers, the screw thrashed, and the ship plunged on-her sharp stem cutting through the dri