Note 1. Mawk, Scottice—a hare.
Book Two—Chapter Four.
On Silent Seas.
“And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold,
And ice, mast high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
“And through the drifts the snowy clilts
Did send a dismal sheen,
Nor shapes of men nor beast we ken—
The ice was all between.”
Coleridge.
Scene: The Arctic Ocean. One solitary ship in sight. Ice all about, against which, in contrast, the water looks black as ink.
Yes, everything they saw in this voyage and in these seas was indeed very new to Leonard and Douglas. They certainly were pleased they had come. It was like being in a new world.