40/127 A quick jump over the widening gap saved him. One of the anxieties in my mind was the possibility that we would be driven by the current through the eighty- mile gap between Clarence Island and Prince George Island into the open Atlantic; but slowly the open water came nearer, and at noon it had almost reached us. A long lane, narrow but navigable, stretched out to the south-west horizon. Our chance came a little later. We rushed our boats over the edge of the reeling berg and swung them clear of the ice- foot as it rose beneath them. |