Sleep Story 199 – Secrets of Polar Travel
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The Work of a Polar Ship
The chief work of a polar ship is to push and pry and wedge its way in and out among cakes and floes ranging from three to 20 or 50 feet thick. A passage cannot be smashed through such ice, and nothing remains but to squeeze and twist and dodge through it. Many qualities are necessary in a first class polarize fiter. First, there must be such a generally rounded model as will rise readily when squeezed, and thus escape the death crush of the ice. Then there must be no projection of keel or of other part to give the ice an opportunity to get a grip or to hold the ship from rising. Later, in the grim, pro acted fight with the
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