about noon
Gardiner watched the movements of Daggett and his crew with a glass for a short time , when he ordered all hands called . The cook was already in the galley , and a warm breakfast was soon prepared . After eating this , the two whale-boats were lowered , and Roswell and Hazard both rowed as far as the ice would permit them , when they walked the rest of the way to the imprisoned craft , taking with them most of their hands , together with the saw . It was perhaps fortunate for Daggett that it soon began to blow fresh from the northward , sending into the bay a considerable sea , which soon broke up the ice , and enabled the Vineyard craft to force her way through the fragments , and join her consort about noon . Glad enough was Roswell to regain his own vessel ; and he made sail on a wind , determined to beat out of the narrow waters at every hazard , the experience of that night having told him that they had remained in the cove too long . Daggett followed willingly , but not like a man who had escaped by the skin of his teeth , from wintering near the antarctic circle . `` Beside the Moldau 's rushing stream , With the wan moon overhead , There stood , as in an awful dream , The army of the dead . ''