Once more the open sea--the sea whose waters break on the shores of Newfoundland! An English steamship lies at anchor in the offing.

The vessel is plainly visible through the open doorway of a large boat-house on the shore--one of the buildings attached to a fishing-station on the coast of the island.
The only person in the boat-house at this moment is a man in the dress of a sailor.

He is seated on a chest, with a piece of cord in his hand, looking out idly at the sea.

On the rough carpenter's table near him lies a strange object to be left in such a place--a woman's veil.
What is the vessel lying at anchor in the offing?
The vessel is the _Amazon_--dispatched from England to receive the surviving officers and men of the Arctic Expedition.

The meeting has been successfully effected, on the shores of North America, three days since.