The schooner was kept moving gradually along at about the same distance from the ice.

Bonney was stationed at the wheel, and Corliss at the sheets.

Old Trull stood by the howitzer.

The rest of us took each a musket, and formed in line along the after-bulwarks.

Palmleaf, who in the midst of these martial preparations had been enjoying a pleasant after-breakfast snooze, was now called, and bade to stand by Corliss at the sheets.