"bidding aspect and then suddenly it" "began to show signs of movement a-" "mong the cakes. Within a few minute" "narrow" "black lines were visible between the" "winding across the fields of deadly" "white and in less than a half hour" "our engine was started. We mo-" "tored through widening leads for" "several" "hours, until we came near a broad" "zone of thickly set icebergs, thousands" "of them it seemed, stretching seaward" "from Cape Melville for miles. The" "captain turned shoreward seeking" "to get around this barrier and" "about midnight we were in a per-" "fect labyrinth of bergs, many of" "which overtopped our masts, loom-" "ing high above us in most impres-" "sive fashion. The great masses" "of ice were beautiful under the strong"