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1 I, IV | ventilation, an India-rubber boat, only inflated when required, &
2 I, VIII | absence of his chief. The boat was let loose from its moorings,
3 I, VIII | silent in the stern of the boat with the tiller tucked under
4 I, VIII | spread out before them. The boat skirted the northern shores
5 I, VIII | clock old Norman ran the boat aground on a low bank at
6 I, VIII | camp, not returning to the boat until nearly three o’clock
7 I, IX | moment’s delay, for the boat would not be safe near these
8 I, IX | waves began to rise and the boat to rock considerably; for
9 I, IX | probably go hard with the light boat, which, unable to hold its
10 I, IX | tightening sail so as to get his boat ahead of the wind, whilst
11 I, IX | squall came. It caught the boat upon the flank, and it was
12 I, IX | noticing of the management of a boat. Norman, unable to leave
13 I, IX | the sail. Every moment the boat threatened to capsize, and
14 I, IX | it would be to have the boat before the wind, pursued
15 I, IX | threatened them. The frail boat could not long resist the
16 I, IX | clinging to the sides of the boat, wet to the skin, chilled
17 I, IX | cable’s length from the boat clouds and waves could not
18 I, IX | tiller; tried to keep his boat as much as possible under
19 I, IX | squall became such that the boat could not long maintain
20 I, IX | he turned the head of the boat to the south. The sail,
21 I, IX | the utmost, brought the boat round with giddy rapidity,
22 I, IX | rapid succession upon the boat, which could not evade them.
23 I, IX | lost all control over the boat, and were at the mercy of
24 I, IX | hundred feet behind the boat a huge wave upreared its
25 I, IX | before it. It gained upon the boat, another moment and it would
26 I, IX | enveloped the stern of the boat in foam, a fearful crash
27 I, IX | all was over, and that the boat had sunk; but no, it rose
28 I, IX | of being flung from the boat rocking on the waves, the
29 I, IX | anything of the management of a boat, and even an experienced
30 I, IX | water which weighed down the boat. Another wave shipped would
31 I, IX | best he could to guide the boat with the wind right aft.~
32 I, IX | yards before them, and the boat must have been dashed to
33 I, IX | like a white cloud. The boat sped rapidly along for a
34 I, IX | flung to the bottom of the boat, bruised, shaken, and torn,
35 I, IX | by a violent shock.~The boat had just struck an enormous
36 I, IX | parried, the bow of the boat was split open, and the
37 I, IX | Hobson.~He was right. The boat was settling down; the water
38 I, IX | pronounced this word when the boat, struck by another wave,
39 I, IX | sudden settling down of the boat, but in a few instants they
40 I, IX | by the lake, had seen the boat in danger, and put off to
41 I, IX | tempests.~The Esquimaux boat or kayak is a long pirogue
42 I, IX | In the upper part of the boat; also covered with skins,
43 I, IX | seas in which any other boat would certainly be dashed
44 I, IX | laid him across his own boat, another did the sane for
45 I, X | canoe, or even a good-sized boat, might easily have descended
46 II, II | no sail to hoist, as in a boat, we cannot guide it in the
47 II, II | not be prudent to build a boat large enough to hold us
48 II, II | carpenter. But taking to a boat can only be a forlorn hope
49 II, II | was why Hobson thought a boat a forlorn hope, a desperate
50 II, III | the construction of a huge boat, Hobson telling him, in
51 II, IV | or later the keel of our boat will be missing, that some
52 II, V | at the construction of a boat, a difficult task, likely
53 II, V | The construction of the boat proceeded rapidly. Mac-Nab
54 II, V | Captain Kellet abandoned his boat on an ice-field measuring
55 II, VI | completed the carcass of his boat, which was planked and ribbed.
56 II, VI | about like passengers on a boat. This was not the case,
57 II, IX | could be neither a whale, a boat, nor, at this time of the
58 II, IX | powerless to harm the light boat, which floated on their
59 II, IX | with her paddle, the light boat shot along like an arrow.
60 II, X | northern regions? Had the boat been finished, Lieutenant
61 II, XII | before having recourse to the boat—which could not be used
62 II, XII | before having recourse to the boat—which could not be used
63 II, XIII | towards the east, and a boat would really be of more
64 II, XIII | we are to be saved in a boat, there is Mac-Nab’s on Victoria
65 II, XIII | depend on but the carpenter’s boat, and that they would have
66 II, XIV | nothing to depend on but the boat, and that they could not
67 II, XIV | colonies.~The building of the boat proceeded rapidly, and it
68 II, XV | be prudent to launch our boat too soon amongst the floating
69 II, XV | was quite finished. This boat was rather heavy in shape,
70 II, XV | use of for sailcloth.~This boat would carry the whole colony,
71 II, XV | the passage of Mac-Nab’s boat after the thaw, and it would
72 II, XV | ice-wall, through which our boat could only have made its
73 II, XV | business it is to guide a boat amongst the ice.~Every day
74 II, XV | would be able to steer his boat into the open sea. He was
75 II, XV | everybody to be on board the boat before that could happen,
76 II, XV | men, having finished their boat, employed their leisure
77 II, XVII | the thaw broke it up, the boat would then be launched,
78 II, XVII | instruments and books into the boat, which was waiting on the
79 II, XVII | allow of the passage of the boat, which was to bear the whole
80 II, XVII | would be impossible for a boat to pass yet.~Hobson and
81 II, XVII | may be able to launch our boat on the sea!”~And the two
82 II, XVII | possession of the island.~The boat which had been built at
83 II, XVIII| the factory, breaking the boat and crushing the dog-house
84 II, XIX | of the Pacific, and the boat on which all had depended
85 II, XIX | and concluded that the boat was destroyed. It was this
86 II, XIX | the sea was open and their boat destroyed. A few ruins alone
87 II, XXI | the sails intended for the boat had long been ready. The
88 II, XXII | sea, suddenly cried—~“A boat! a boat!”~It was as if an
89 II, XXII | suddenly cried—~“A boat! a boat!”~It was as if an electric
90 II, XXII | considerable distance, but the boat would probably have disappeared
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