Part, Chapter
1 I, I | wives, the luckless squaws being still looked upon as little
2 I, III | Sergeant Long only just escaped being crushed, but he got up without
3 I, IV | the Indians, instead of being the purveyors of the Company,
4 I, V | me I ever complained of being too warm, for I sha’n’t
5 I, VI | white antlers, the latter being entirely without these ornaments.
6 I, VII | congratulate you, Mrs Barnett, on being a more cosmopolitan traveller
7 I, VIII | close to its waters, which being frozen over in winter, and
8 I, VIII | views of the Lieutenant, who being anxious to rest his party,
9 I, VIII | with many apologies for being unable to accompany them
10 I, VIII | very difficult to cross, being hilly and intersected by
11 I, IX | The waters of the lake not being very deep, struck against
12 I, IX | helm, and the halliards being entangled at the top of
13 I, IX | Barnett; and at the risk of being flung from the boat rocking
14 I, X | waters were very clear, and being fed by the melted snow,
15 I, XI | certain parts of America. Being easily domesticated, they
16 I, XI | these latitudes, and Hobson, being assured of their presence,
17 I, XII | of the lagoon, instead of being brackish as they expected
18 I, XII | should have run a risk of being too late.”~“You would, Mr
19 I, XIII | provisional encampment.~His men being very skilful, the Lieutenant
20 I, XIII | by side. To insure their being properly joined, Rae the
21 I, XIII | Meanwhile the house was being quickly fitted up inside.
22 I, XIII | of doors or windows -one being made to eject the impure
23 I, XIV | the two end ones alone being lighted by windows looking
24 I, XIV | organised. The capture of seals being put off for a more convenient
25 I, XIV | strips for food, the skins being kept to be tanned and used
26 I, XIV | without one or more of them being sighted. Sometimes these
27 I, XIV | the fact of their lairs being close at hand, they never
28 I, XIV | resembled the American glutton, being strongly built, with short
29 I, XV | dog-house was on the eve of being finished, and very little
30 I, XV | plentiful, Mrs Paulina Barnett being invited to accompany the
31 I, XV | out on foot-the sledges being full-to return to the fort.
32 I, XVI | inhabitants of the fort being provided for, it was time
33 I, XVI | branches and roots, the whole being cemented together and rendered
34 I, XVI | very great value, their fur being black, and therefore especially
35 I, XVI | badgers were taken, the skin being used as an ornament for
36 I, XVII | flood, for the sun and moon being in conjunction, their double
37 I, XVII | country was springing into being before her admiring eyes,
38 I, XVII | several of these animals being seen. At night they would
39 I, XVII | were in great danger of being frost-bitten, when death
40 I, XVII | but the parts affected being rubbed in time they escaped
41 I, XVIII| to insist upon the door being kept shut, for had it been
42 I, XVIII| large room, so that without being overworked, the occupants
43 I, XVIII| would not act, the pipes being choked up with ice; they
44 I, XVIII| temperature inside and outside being some fifty-four degrees.~
45 I, XVIII| The dog house and stable being lower than the house were
46 I, XIX | off with the bait without being caught. This made Sabine
47 I, XIX | large quantities. The wind being high, however, the cold
48 I, XIX | especially noticeable when, being attacked by a slight fit
49 I, XX | remain out of doors without being frost-bitten. The Fahrenheit
50 I, XX | were well provided for, and being accustomed to long fasts
51 I, XXI | the inside temperature being already far too low. The
52 I, XXI | married, and insisted upon being the first to venture.~When
53 I, XXI | office imposed caution, and being called upon to decide which
54 I, XXI | could easily stop it from being dragged away.~The rope was
55 I, XXI | all along the loft, and being made of lime-bricks but
56 I, XXI | house rocked as if it were being torn up from its foundations.
57 I, XXII | I shall have no fear of being sea-sick.”~“What you say
58 I, XXII | at a time when, the sea being free from ice, the coast-line
59 I, XXIII| strange to say, instead of being scared away by the guns,
60 I, XXIII| were married, and the one being a master carpenter, and
61 I, XXIII| nowhere to be seen; for it being three days before new moon,
62 I, XXIII| the Pole, where the sun, being very little above the horizon,
63 II, I | astronomical observations, and not being able to see the consequences
64 II, I | the water by reason of its being specifically lighter than
65 II, II | Island—the original name being retained—until the next
66 II, II | often told of pieces of ice being drifted an immense distance
67 II, II | try all we can to avoid being on the island when the ice
68 II, II | Ocean, special attention being naturally given to that
69 II, II | about his floating island being perhaps, after all, the
70 II, II | towards which they were being irresistibly drawn, and
71 II, III | special care; the fracture being still fresh, it might be
72 II, III | good reason. They dread being shut in the ice; and the
73 II, IV | their conveyance melting and being swallowed up by the sea.~
74 II, VII | if the ocean itself was being torn from its bed and flung
75 II, VII | moment they ran a risk of being crushed beneath a falling
76 II, VII | these fossil elephants being very numerous in these latitudes.
77 II, VIII | Cape Bathurst.~The wind, being now on their backs, helped
78 II, VIII | the night before without being able to judge of its extent.
79 II, VIII | true state of things, and being anxious to conceal his emotion,
80 II, VIII | away as it was by the sea. Being rather tired with the many
81 II, VIII | plunged with it into the sea.~Being a powerful swimmer, like
82 II, IX | year. The long Polar night being over, and the month of May
83 II, IX | Kalumah now felt herself being carried away towards the
84 II, X | for the winter, the season being too far advanced for her
85 II, X | irresistible current, and was being carried along with a speed
86 II, X | large icebergs come into being; it was on its way to the
87 II, X | island. But if the danger of being swallowed up by the waves
88 II, X | whole truth.”~This point being decided, the ordinary occupations
89 II, X | The lagoon, its waters being quieter than those of the
90 II, X | It was impossible to risk being overtaken by the thaw on
91 II, X | I have heard of whalers being able to navigate in places
92 II, XII | you,” said Mac-Nab.~All being of one mind, the preparations
93 II, XII | you,” said Mac-Nab.~All being of one mind, the preparations
94 II, XII | then, its farther progress being barred, it turned round
95 II, XII | framework and the curved fronts being carefully repaired and strengthened.~
96 II, XII | once they ran a risk of being unable to get back to Victoria
97 II, XIII | the half-frozen water, and being a powerful swimmer a few
98 II, XIII | understood that the ice-field being impassible. they had now
99 II, XIV | economise it, the reserves being considerable. It was otherwise
100 II, XIV | that every one preferred being in the dark. All work had
101 II, XVII | between it and the ice-field being broken, and their continued
102 II, XVII | were now out of danger of being taken any farther by the
103 II, XVIII| the volume below the water being five times that of the projecting
104 II, XVIII| great part of its volume being sunk beneath the surface
105 II, XVIII| and sand were reached, as, being very brittle, they would
106 II, XVIII| with wood, the loose earth being drawn to the surface in
107 II, XVIII| miners were in danger of being buried in their turn.~Mac-Nab
108 II, XIX | could they really have of being saved! However, the loft
109 II, XIX | from the roof saved it from being immediately crushed.~Whilst
110 II, XX | meant that the icebergs, being before instead of behind
111 II, XX | draught of water—their volume being six or seven feet below
112 II, XXII | general level of the islet was being lowered by the constant
113 II, XXII | fact of fellow-creatures being in danger.~The question
114 II, XXIII| I mean that the ice is being rapidly fretted away as
115 II, XXIII| laid here and there, as being bad conductors of heat.
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