Part, Chapter
1 I, II | the Pacific Ocean in a few days.”~“That would indeed be
2 I, IV | necessary precaution in the days when the Indians, instead
3 I, V | ENTERPRISE.~The first fine days came at last. The green
4 I, V | snow.~During the last few days several bands of Indians
5 I, V | during the next fifteen days. The weather continued favourable,
6 I, VI | and rested there for two days.~The gentle influence of
7 I, VI | again on the 4th May, three days later. The thermometer,
8 I, VII | threatening for the last few days. Look at the uniformly grey
9 I, VIII | generally three or four bitter days in May; and they were most
10 I, VIII | Bear Lake. These few cold days were of the greatest service
11 I, VIII | on remaining two or three days at Fort Confidence. In the
12 I, IX | tempests lasting fifteen days are by no means rare on
13 I, X | nothing to eat for seven days but wild fruit, bits of
14 I, X | the travellers.~For two days they kept along the river-banks
15 I, X | latitude.~On the 5th June, four days after leaving Fort Confidence
16 I, XI | stock of them in the fifteen days during which they were debarred
17 I, XIII | to one another. Very few days sufficed to complete this
18 I, XVII | had made bench marks some days before, so as to estimate
19 I, XVII | was sown during the last days of September.~Hobson made
20 I, XVII | frequent occurrence.~In a few days the aspect of Cape Bathurst
21 I, XVII | vigorously carried on for some days. The magazines became stocked
22 I, XVII | the same time.~For a few days the weather continued dry
23 I, XVII | another route.~The few fine days were soon over, and in the
24 I, XVII | now become impossible. The days were extremely short, the
25 I, XVII | 70th degree N. Lat.~A few days afterwards, on November .
26 I, XVIII| confined to the house for three days, and the snow-drifts were
27 I, XVIII| to visit them. The eight days during which the occupants
28 I, XVIII| we not count upon a few days’ thaw-will not all this
29 I, XIX | completed their task in a few days. The traps were now uncovered
30 I, XIX | Cape Esquimaux for eight days. The men passed twelve hours
31 I, XX | MERCURY FREEZES.~A few days of dry calm weather favoured
32 I, XX | eyes.~During the following .days the cold became doubly severe.
33 I, XX | swelled the chorus. The long days of imprisonment passed wearily
34 I, XX | weather during the first days of the new year, and on
35 I, XX | for another two or three days,” replied the Sergeant.~“
36 I, XXI | feed our stoves for a few days longer. A desperate alternative,
37 I, XXI | to the fact that in two days this fresh supply of fuel
38 I, XXII | dressing.~Two miserable days ensued, during which the
39 I, XXII | and if it had lasted many days longer we should all have
40 I, XXII | settlers. From this date the days gradually increased in length.~
41 I, XXII | to bad weather. The fine days were so cold that the hunters
42 I, XXII | kitchen garden.~The long days had now returned, and hunting
43 I, XXIII| agonies of suspense in the few days preceding the phenomenon
44 I, XXIII| seen; for it being three days before new moon, she was
45 II, I | together at full moon a few days ago, no sensible difference
46 II, III | rest of the colonists. The days were just then very long,
47 II, V | bitterest cold for a good many days during the Polar night,
48 II, V | anything.~So passed the days until the middle of the
49 II, VI | CHAPTER VI.~ TEN DAYS OF TEMPEST~From the 17th
50 II, VI | to amuse them in the long days of compulsory confinement.
51 II, VII | you are away more than two days?”~“Then we shall not return
52 II, VII | again and again. “For seven days a hurricane has been blowing
53 II, VII | the coast, and in seven days “——~“Your reasonings are
54 II, IX | island.~During the first days of the storm the Esquimaux
55 II, X | situation.~During the next few days the bearings were taken
56 II, X | stationary. Another fifteen days, another three weeks of
57 II, X | been arrested for a few days between the Behring and
58 II, X | well known that several days of cold, 7° or 8° below
59 II, X | disheartened.~The first days of November came, and the
60 II, X | get a little light. The days were already very short,
61 II, X | night was beginning nine days sooner than it had done
62 II, XII | points during the last few days, which they had noticed
63 II, XII | the rain of the preceding days. A few more days of such
64 II, XII | preceding days. A few more days of such cold and sledges
65 II, XII | fall of snow, lasting a few days or even a few hours, would
66 II, XII | the rain of the preceding days. A few more days of such
67 II, XII | preceding days. A few more days of such cold and sledges
68 II, XII | fall of snow, lasting a few days or even a few hours, would
69 II, XII | c.~During the last few days every one worked so hard
70 II, XII | up in Fort Hope for two days.~
71 II, XIII | It took no less than four days and four nights to get back
72 II, XIV | globes of his eyes. Two days later his skin assumed a
73 II, XIV | the 20th January, twelve days after he was taken ill,
74 II, XIV | fell abundantly for some days, and was piled up on the
75 II, XV | for the first time, forty days after he was taken ill.
76 II, XV | and that in about fifteen days Hobson would be able to
77 II, XV | things continued for four days. The frost-rime did not
78 II, XVII | other of the strait in a few days.~This prospect cheered them
79 II, XVII | before.~During the next few days, several excursions were
80 II, XVIII| gallery, it would be eight days at least before they could
81 II, XIX | good-will, and in a few days a shelter was provided from
82 II, XIX | Madge simply.~But a few days afterwards, every chance
83 II, XX | may reach them in eight days.”~“Eight days!” repeated
84 II, XX | them in eight days.”~“Eight days!” repeated Long, shaking
85 II, XX | shaking his head; “eight days is a long time.”~“I must
86 II, XX | island be controlled? Eight days at this pace would bring
87 II, XX | Aleutian group.”~“Those eight days are in the hands of God,”
88 II, XX | course to take. In eight days, if the present speed were
89 II, XXI | decreased. During the last few days all those capable of long-sustained
90 II, XXII | XXII.~ THE FOUR FOLLOWING DAYS.~The night was calm, and
91 II, XXII | raft to hold so many. A few days of life were all the colonists
92 II, XXIV | godson, Michael Mac-Nab.~Six days after their rescue the shipwrecked
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