Word: icebergs
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...raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island...
...first year out, an assistant engineer had died. They wrapped him in a Norwegian flag and laid him in a gigantic mausoleum, a cave carved into an iceberg...
During the next ten years, with iceberg jaw, fists like demijohns, he begot a legend for his country. He toured, offering $1,000 to any man who could last four rounds with him. He thumped Charlie Mitchell, "The Bombastic Sprinter." He broke half the ribs of Jake Kilrain in a fight at Richburg, Miss.-75 rounds and the temperature 120°. When he had his hair cut, girls gathered up the coarse, black strands, treasured them in lockets...
Then Sir Gilbert came back into the room and said: "This is something awful-big shipwreck. I suppose it is the Lusitania. No it's not the Lusitania. It's a thing that ran into an iceberg-the Titanic, and a singing of hymns. I feel as if somebody was crashing a fiddle or a cello, or breaking up a musical instrument. People are being picked up out of the water and saved...
Contrary to the general belief, the temperature does not perceptibly lower when an iceberg is approached...