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188 TRAVELS
dreaded, on account of the flownefs of their motions, and the in-
aptitude of their members to a folid element. |
After confiderable fatigue, and many adventures, having. re-
frefhed our horfes about half way on the high fea, we at length
touched at the {mall ifland of Signilfkar. This ifland prefents to
the view neither wood nor Perce and is inhabited only by fome
peafants, and the officer of the telegraph which is ftationed here
for keeping up a correfpondence with that of Griflehamn. It
is one of thofe little iflands fcattered in this part of the gulf,
which collectively bear the name of Aland. The diftance
from Griflehamn to Signilfkar, in a ftrait line, is five Swedith
miles, which are nearly equal to thirty-five Englifh; but the
turnings we were obliged to make, in order to find out the moft
practicable places, could not be lefs than ten Englifh miles more.
All this while we were kept in anxious fufpence concerning the
fate of our fugitive horfe, and entertained the moft uneafy appre-
henfions that he was either loft in the immenfity of the icy defert,
or buried perhaps in the watery abyfs. We were preparing to
continue our journey through the ifles on the 1ce, and had already
put new horfes to our fledge, when we fpied, with inexpreffible
pleafure, the two fledges returning with the fugitive. The ani-
mal was in the moft deplorable condition imaginable: his body
was covered all over with {fweat and foam, and was enveloped in
a cloud of fmoke. Still we did not dare to come near him; the
exceflive fatigue of his violent courfe had not abated his ferocity ;
he wasas much alarmed at the fight of our pelices as before; he
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