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1 I, I | through them; but two or three pieces of red bunting, tastily
2 I, II | danger of its position. Three years after the taking of
3 I, II | Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! three cheers for Mrs Barnett!
4 I, IV | extremity, and is about three hundred miles from the Chesterfield
5 I, IV | a profit of no less than three hundred per cent.~We shall
6 I, IV | officers, with ten soldiers, three of whom took their wives
7 I, IV | Pine-wood snow-shoes, two or three feet long, capable of supporting
8 I, VI | the Great Bear Lake, some three hundred miles further to
9 I, VI | here, the air; the other three, fire, earth, and water,
10 I, VI | out again on the 4th May, three days later. The thermometer,
11 I, VI | where they are when we are three steps from them, the rifles
12 I, VII | party, and it was not until three in the afternoon that they
13 I, VII | enough to contain two or three persons each. The dogs were
14 I, VII | houses, in groups of two or three, each choosing congenial
15 I, VIII | climes there are generally three or four bitter days in May;
16 I, VIII | beyond the Arctic Circle, but three degrees south of the seventieth
17 I, VIII | decided on remaining two or three days at Fort Confidence.
18 I, VIII | Barnett, Hobson, two or three soldiers, Madge, Mrs Mac-Nab,
19 I, VIII | itself. The creature measured three feet from the muzzle to
20 I, VIII | with us!”~After a walk of three hours the visitors returned
21 I, VIII | shores of the lake at about three miles’ distance, following
22 I, VIII | Lieutenant landed at once. Two or three Indians, with their chief,
23 I, VIII | to the boat until nearly three o’clock in the afternoon.~
24 I, IX | tempest may hold back for three or four hours, and by that
25 I, IX | mistake-he had heard voices. Three men, wandering about by
26 I, IX | be dashed to pieces.~The three Esquimaux, guided by the
27 I, IX | for Mrs Barnett, and the three kayaks, skilfully managed
28 I, IX | lying on the sandy beach three miles above Fort Providence.~
29 I, X | and night.~For the next three nights the party rested.
30 I, XI | companions not to go further than three miles from the coast, and
31 I, XI | Fahrenheit above zero. Two or three times sudden snowstorms
32 I, XII | On the 5th June, about three o’clock in the afternoon,
33 I, XIII | it was to have a door and three windows on the side of the
34 I, XIII | perhaps be divided into three cabins, instead of four;
35 I, XIV | large grey wolves, about three feet high, with long tails,
36 I, XV | favourable calculation only three more weeks would intervene
37 I, XV | if we were to go two or three miles farther, we should
38 I, XV | perpendicular wall, from water three hundred fathoms deep. It
39 I, XVI | sea on one side and its three enemies on the other, had
40 I, XVII | supported on a square, formed of three pieces of wood so balanced
41 I, XVIII| nocturnal observations. The three married women had also plenty
42 I, XVIII| confined to the house for three days, and the snow-drifts
43 I, XIX | clothing, but only two or three foxes. These cunning creatures
44 I, XIX | through a kind of passage three or four feet long, which
45 I, XX | winter had still to last three months. The sun would doubtless
46 I, XX | stove for another two or three days,” replied the Sergeant.~“
47 I, XXI | Sergeant, Mac-Nab, and two or three soldiers seized their arms,
48 I, XXI | other in parties of two or three, for none could have supported
49 I, XXI | scarcely be called sleep.~At three o’clock in the morning Hobson
50 I, XXI | Long, Mac-Nab, and Rae, all three volunteered for the perilous
51 I, XXI | minutes elapsed, and the three watchers went back to the
52 I, XXI | worthy of note, when at about three o’clock in the afternoon
53 I, XXI | they are!” cried two or three soldiers, hastily arming
54 I, XXIII| to be seen; for it being three days before new moon, she
55 I, XXIII| sun, until between forty three minutes past eleven and
56 I, XXIII| Cape Bathurst had drifted three degrees farther north since
57 II, I | powerful currents for the last three months!~Yes, Fort Hope was
58 II, II | advanced, and in less than three months the sea would again
59 II, II | right. It would take about three months to build a thirty
60 II, II | had been following it for three months, we should have had
61 II, II | have changed in the last three months, which is certainly
62 II, II | of the Arctic Ocean.”~The three friends remained silent,
63 II, III | no precaution each of the three explorers was provided with
64 II, III | plans for the future, the three explorers continued to follow
65 II, III | bones marked the spot.~The three explorers halted here for
66 II, III | advance, however, and at three o’clock in the afternoon
67 II, III | afternoon they were only three miles from Walruses’ Bay,
68 II, IV | stood the soil rose scarcely three feet above the water. The
69 II, IV | the ice big enough to hold three persons—in fact to make
70 II, V | for meals, and work. The three married couples had private
71 II, V | ice-field measuring at least three hundred square miles, and
72 II, V | mercury scarcely went down three degrees.~Preparations for
73 II, VII | although the sea was two or three miles distant at least.~
74 II, VIII | imprisoned like ourselves for three or four months perhaps.
75 II, IX | is to say, about two or three o’clock in the morning.
76 II, IX | entertained.~It was about three o’clock when Madge and Mrs
77 II, X | Another fifteen days, another three weeks of this state of things,
78 II, X | make the ice-crust two or three inches thick, strong enough
79 II, X | most would be in another three or four weeks. Meanwhile
80 II, X | in the day, and fell to three or four degrees below in
81 II, X | Under the circumstances, three months would scarcely be
82 II, XII | Rae the blacksmith. All three faced the situation calmly
83 II, XIII | harnessed to the sledges, and three couple of reindeer to the
84 II, XIII | this rate, it will take us three months to get to the American
85 II, XIII | the American continent in three months’ time; if so, we
86 II, XIII | into ruins. Some towered three or four hundred feet above
87 II, XIV | Auroræ Borealis and two or three lunar halos appeared at
88 II, XIV | piled up to a height of some three or four hundred feet. Two-thirds
89 II, XIV | Barnett, Kalumah, and two or three soldiers, the hunters hurried
90 II, XV | side the ice wall rose not three miles from the cape.~The
91 II, XV | reached, but it had taken three hours to get over three
92 II, XV | three hours to get over three miles.~The icy barrier presented
93 II, XV | as they had only two or three miles of the island to cross
94 II, XV | ice-wall, after a walk of three hours. The night had now
95 II, XV | each other when only two or three paces apart.~Every one’s
96 II, XVII | when he left, was two or three miles off in the offing,
97 II, XVIII| the boring proceeded. Only three men could work at it together,
98 II, XVIII| vessel!”~For some minutes the three men remained silent. Mac-Nab’
99 II, XVIII| without a moment’s rest.~At three o’clock in the morning Kellet’
100 II, XX | accident happened, it would be three weeks at least before this
101 II, XX | impossible for it to last another three weeks.~The next week, from
102 II, XX | we are aware, the house, three quarters submerged, and
103 II, XXI | ISLAND BECOMES AN ISLET.~Three hours later the last relics
104 II, XXII | clock in the evening the three explorers returned to the
105 II, XXIII| a few planks, and two or three of the timbers of the roofs.
106 II, XXIII| floated along on the waves for three hours in the centre of an
107 II, XXIII| still hoped on.~Towards three o’clock, the Lieutenant
108 II, XXIII| remaining combustibles—two or three planks and a beam. It was
109 II, XXIII| the ice last longer? In three hours, three short hours,
110 II, XXIII| longer? In three hours, three short hours, they might
111 II, XXIII| land, which was now but three miles to windward.~“Oh!”
112 II, XXIV | you in the name of all.”~Three cheers for Mrs Barnett greeted
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