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This kind of ice is much more dangerous than the large islands , for those can be seen at a distance , and kept away from ; but the field-ice , floating in great quantities , and covering the ocean for miles and miles , in pieces of every size-large , flat , and broken cakes , with here and there an island rising twenty and thirty feet , and as large as the ship 's hull ; - this , it is very difficult to sheer clear of . The wind was still ahead , and the whole ocean , to the eastward , covered with islands and field-ice . Sumatra ; and God grant he had better care taken of him in his sufferings , than he ever gave to any one else ! He said there were three : - the chro-nometer , the chre-nometer , and the the-nometer . Between daylight and dark - that is , between nine o'clock and three - we saw thirty-four ice islands , of various sizes ; some no bigger than the hull of our vessel , and others apparently nearly as large as the one that we first saw ; though , as we went on , the islands became smaller and more numerous ; and , at sundown of this day , a man at the mast-head saw large fields of floating ice called " field-ice " at the south-east . Our merchant ships are always under-manned , and if one man is lost by sickness , they cannot spare another to take care of him . Before the light northerly winds , which blow here with the regularity of trades , we worked slowly along , and made Point Ano Neuvo , the northerly point of the Bay of Monterey , on Monday afternoon . Instead of violent measures , or , at least , an outbreak of quarter-deck bravado , threats , and abuse , which they had every reason to expect , a sense of common danger and common suffering seemed to have tamed his spirit , and begotten something like a humane fellow feeling ; for he received the crew in a manner quiet , and even almost kind . The greatest care is used in stowing , to make the ship hold as many hides as possible . He went to see him , but said that he had so little medicine , and expected to be so long on the coast , that he could do nothing for him , but that Captain Arthur would take care of him when he came down in the California , which would be in a week or more . Mr. Brown had been entrusted with the general care of the medicine-chest , and although a driving fellow , and a taught hand in a watch , he had good feelings , and was always inclined to be kind to the sick .