The Sea Lions
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You are Roswell Gardiner, given command of Deacon Pratt's schooner on the strength of a dying sailor's bearings to a secret sealing ground, while Mary Pratt, the deacon's niece, copies those bearings as a witness rather than trust the secret to one man's memory. A rival schooner out of Martha's Vineyard shadows your course, survives a Carolina gale alongside you, and reaches the same ice months later - trapped this time, in pack ice closing around the boat sent to bring her crew clear.
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