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come on deck to see a peculiar (1/4)
black cloud ahead of us. Directly,
across our bows the long line of
lofty cliffs forming the southern coast
of Disko Island rose, half exposed
above a heavy bank of fog which
rose as an opaque gray plane,
and it looked as if our course lay
directly up the slope. Here and
there an iceberg could be made
out indistinctly through the mist
about us, while an occasional
one could be seen the pinnacles
of which rose above the thin outer
edge of the fog bank. The dull cough
of howling whales added a touch
of weirdness to the scene, which
was further varied once in awhile
by the boom of ice falling from the
bergs. For several minutes our