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Part, Chapter
501 I, XI | the reindeer, as, like the camel, they have a small nail-like
502 I, XXII | therefore, commenced the campaign. Their excursions were neither
503 I, XVI | and pine-martens, called “ Canada- martens,” which frequent
504 I, XV | in general form, but the canine teeth of the upper jaw curved
505 II, XV | a single mast. The tent canvass of the factory had been
506 I, V | weather lasts we shall get on capitally. What do you think, Sergeant
507 I, XXIII| and some constellations—Caplet, [symbol] and [symbol] of
508 I, IX | moment the boat threatened to capsize, and heavy seas broke over
509 I, XXII | They were like a band of captives unexpectedly set free. They
510 II, X | then set free, and their captors watched them wing their
511 I, XIII | fishermen there were no means of capturing them unless one by chance
512 I, XIII | the decomposition of the carbonate which is so large an ingredient
513 I, XIV | okelcoo-haw-gew,’ and a Canadian a ‘carcajou.”’~“And what do you call
514 II, VI | MacNab had completed the carcass of his boat, which was planked
515 I, VI | leaving their bleeding carcasses to be devoured by wolves
516 I, I | and artistically shaped cardboard—the motto of the world-famous
517 I, IX | sail, swept along in mad career. What could the Lieutenant
518 I, IX | Confidence.”~“Let us be careful, then,” said the Lieutenant; “
519 II, XIX | cheeks.~Madge kissed and caressed her, and tried all she could
520 I, XIX | it in a soft voice, and caressing it tenderly.~Indeed if not
521 II, XV | quadrupeds, rodents, and carnivora alike continued to frequent
522 I, IV | instruments required in carpentering. Then there was the collection
523 I, XIV | very important that the carpenters-should make all possible use of
524 I, XIII | nuts, &e., required in carpentry. They had no mason in the
525 I, XI | the foot of the hills was carpeted with a short herbage devoured
526 II, IV | and if the floor of our carriage were solid, if I did not
527 II, XVIII| strengthened it, it has been ‘casemated,’ and the vertical beams
528 I, XX | from Fort Hope, which a casual observer might therefore
529 II, XXIII| Hobson had employed for catching a little of the rain-water
530 I, IV | business of the hunters to cater for them. These strong intelligent
531 I, XV | creeping motions like huge caterpillars, but in water -their native
532 II, XIX | network of islands in the Catherine Archipelago, scattered over
533 I, I | to show admiration, too cautious to make promises, the taciturn
534 II, VII | asleep, Hobson and Long crept cautiously across the large room and
535 II, VII | the indefatigable little cavalier on the large table, where
536 I, XIV | in hollow trees or rocky caves, whence it issues at night
537 II, X | named, and I shall never cease to regret having to leave
538 II, XV | hear one’s self speak, a ceaseless roar like that of artillery
539 II, XIX | nature, and gazed without ceasing upon the boundless, pitiless,
540 I, XIV | climates, and whole thickets of cedars, which are so valuable for
541 I, II | date, Russia will probably cede her American possessions
542 II, XVIII| vertical beams between the ceilings and floors must have offered
543 I, VIII | considerably decreased in the Celestial Empire, they still command
544 I, XIV | Lieutenant’s own room was a dark cell adjoining the hall, with
545 I, XIV | gathered in and stored in the cellar of Fort Hope. There were
546 II, IV | yet clothed with a kind of cement of snow and sand, such as
547 I, X | interference was severely censured by Parliament in 1746, when
548 I, XIII | provided with tools-hatchets, centre-bits, adzes, planes, hand-saws,
549 I, XII | divulged in the commercial centres of Canada and the United
550 II, X | sea to produce a momentary cessation of its agitation These crystals
551 I, II | United States. [*1] When this cession has taken place, the Company
552 II, XIX | were only frequented by cetacea, which came to feed upon
553 II, III | frequented by whales and chacholots, but you must remember that
554 I, XVI | endeavouring to conceal his chagrin at seeing this valuable
555 I, I | Two lamps suspended by chains, like chandeliers, and provided
556 I, I | Corporal Joliffe. No sofas, chairs, or other modern furniture,
557 I, XIII | walls like the eaves of a chalet. Above this squared architrave
558 I, I | tastily arranged about them, challenged the admiration of all who
559 II, XV | leading the way. Like a chamois on the Alpine rocks, the
560 I, I | suspended by chains, like chandeliers, and provided with tin reflectors,
561 II, X | The temperature was as changeable as ever. The thermometer
562 I, XI | of straits, sounds, and channels which gives such a strange
563 II, XVII | ice-field in a state of positive chaos. The sea was one vast aggregation
564 I, XV | possess two entirely distinct characters; to the east and south the
565 II, X | kisses.~The young native was charmed and touched with the hospitality
566 I, XII | over, “this is really a charming spot, such as I should not
567 I, IV | voracious lobes, a sort of charr or grayling called “ blue
568 II, XIII | to our rescue? Would he charter a vessel to seek for us?
569 I, XIX | one, and Mrs Barnett, who chatted for some time with the Esquimaux
570 II, XXIII| continued, “there is one way of checking the dissolution of the ice—
571 I, XIX | sharp teeth, and projecting cheek-bones, which gave them something
572 I, IX | Well,” said Mrs Barnett cheerfully, “our trip will have been
573 I, XV | where Nature makes her chemical experiments, and it appears
574 I, IV | three hundred miles from the Chesterfield inlet, a long narrow estuary
575 I, XVI | a reddish hue mixed with chestnut brown. Beneath the long
576 I, XIV | protected from the damp in large chests. As soon as these arrangements
577 II, XV | the wonderful effects of chiara-oscuro produced upon it.~It would
578 I, I | Jaspar Hobson was born. His childhood and youth were spent at
579 I, XV | from Mrs Joliffe’s kitchen chimney.~The country behind them
580 I, XIII | carpenter was to build two chimneys-one above the kitchen, the other
581 I, I | way through the cranks and chinks of the doors and windows,
582 I, XIX | coarse hair, and beardless chins of their race. Their costume
583 II, X | wise by experience, and the chips left from the boat-building
584 I, X | Prince of Wales, on the river Churchill, near the western shores
585 I, XVI | that it would have seemed churlish to refuse, and she therefore
586 I, I | the spirits thus freely circulated inflamed the imagination
587 I, II | delightful beverage were circulating amongst the guests, fresh
588 I, I | beef. The eggs, milk, and citron prescribed in recipe books
589 I, XVI | construction of their submarine city. There were some hundred
590 I, I | employed in the garrison and civil service of Fort Reliance
591 II, XV | Company would give up all claim on the island to us”——~Mrs
592 I, II | the guests applauded and clapped their hands. Ten minutes
593 II, III | roof, whilst a few distant claps of thunder were heard, a
594 I, XV | crystalline strata of one class of igneous rocks. Glittering
595 I, XVI | man-a fine specimen of his class-those Canadian trappers described
596 I, XIX | savants have with some humour classed the Esquimaux as an “ intermediate
597 I, XIV | bulb, very difficult to classify, because its leaves fall
598 I, XVI | rendered watertight with the clayey mud of the river, previously
599 I, XIII | penetrating the floors. A clean and dry foundation having
600 II, X | vessel and air-pumps were cleaned, the traps were set round
601 II, VII | various occupations, some cleaning their arms, others mending
602 I, XXIII| stones everywhere, and the clear-cut line of the coast. I can’
603 I, VI | imported a great many; but clearings were begun on every side,
604 I, III | for the service; for his clearness of sight was something remarkable.
605 I, IV | the sledge, enabling it to cleave the snow without sinking
606 I, IV | which wanted nothing but a clergyman, and a powder-magazine,
607 I, X | in 1773, James Cook and Clerke in 1776 to 1779, Kotzebue
608 I, VI | skill was wonderful; and the cleverest Indians would not have surpassed
609 I, XI | partial, and which they cleverly dig out from under the snow.~
610 II, VI | the tempest, not this time climbing the cape, but going down
611 I, VIII | fortunate. Even in temperate climes there are generally three
612 I, XV | two Rosses, M’Clure, and M’Clintock, having observed that when
613 I, XXI | but as the Lieutenant was closing the outer door, something
614 I, XIV | gave access. The winter clothing-such as boots, overcoats, furs,
615 II, XIX | was yet a hope that the cluster of the Aleutian Islands,
616 I, XVI | splendid creature, with a coal-black fur tipped with white at
617 I, XVI | of their leader, but of coarser materials.~The Frenchman
618 II, XXIII| or, if not the land, some coasting or fishing vessel.~A forlorn
619 I, X | eastern rounded off into the coastline, stretching away as far
620 I, XVI | 31° Fahrenheit; and thin coatings of ice appeared here and
621 II, XXIII| reservoir, and opening the cock, let the condensed air escape,
622 I, I | looked as if it were made of cocoa-nut fibre. Constitutionally
623 II, XIII | as they were rounding the coiner all paused to look round
624 I, V | it does not increase in coldness in proportion to the elevation
625 I, XVI | used as an ornament for the collars of draught horses, and the
626 I, XXII | of the icebergs broken by collisions, undermined by the action
627 I, V | Long simply.~During this colloquy between Lieutenant Hobson
628 I, II | Methye, Buffalo, and near the Colombia, Mackenzie, Saskatchewan,
629 II, XIV | on their intensity, their coloration, connection with the electric
630 I, VI | calices of tiny, almost colourless, flowers. These faint signs
631 I, XVII | battered in, and monuments and columns overthrown; there like some
632 I, IV | powder,~~~~1 “~~~~~~“ one comb and one looking glass,~~~~
633 II, XXIII| made of all the remaining combustibles—two or three planks and
634 I, V | I should go !”~“And to comeback!” added Jaspar Hobson with
635 II, XXIV | to us. You have been our comforter, our consoler, the very
636 I, VI | palisades. But few as were the comforts it offered, Lieutenant Hobson’
637 I, XXIII| to see it!” he cried in a comically piteous tone.~No, he could
638 I, IV | storey. In it lived the commandant and his officers. The barracks
639 I, XVI | than 2 lb.); but it still commands a high price as the animal
640 II, IV | waters.~We know that freezing commences on the surface of liquids,
641 I, I | Joliffe deserves part of your commendation; she assisted me in everything.”~“
642 I, IX | hour in painful suspense, commending themselves to God, who alone
643 I, XIII | foraging party to whom the commissariat was entrusted would not
644 I, II | Parliament, and, in 1837, a commission appointed by the Colonial
645 II, XIX | commenced, and Mac-Nab was commissioned to make a large solid raft
646 II, XXIII| some of his comrades to commit suicide also. At all hazards
647 I, XIV | an outrage which had been committed along the coast at no great
648 II, XXIV | assistance, and were soon able to communicate with some English agents
649 I, XXI | the moral courage of his companion-” yes, something must be
650 I, XIV | to spend the day in mute companionship by the river-side, whence
651 I, I | himself when on duty for the Company-a true machine in uniform;
652 II, II | altitude of the sun, and, comparing it with that of the observation
653 II, V | at the least. By way of comparison, we may say that Victoria
654 I, XIII | master-carpenter, there were to be four compartments in the house: the first
655 I, XII | travellers, with at least one compatriot of Vestris amongst them,
656 II, XII | gloomy Arctic solitudes, compelling the colonists to give up
657 I, XII | our own operations, and compete boldly with all rivals.”~
658 I, V | else; don’t tell me I ever complained of being too warm, for I
659 I, XV | greatest haste was necessary in completing the new buildings, and Mae-Nab
660 I, XXI | about nine o’clock, a fresh complication compelled Hobson to take
661 I, XVI | speech, for he well knew what complications would arise in the future
662 I, XII | from Behring Strait. Out of compliment to the lady of the party,
663 I, XX | Barnett a happy new year, and complimented her on the courage and good
664 II, X | welded edges of the blocks composing it. There was no rapid accumulation
665 II, XVIII| thought Hobson recovered his composure and shouted—~“Get shovels
666 II, II | the dangerous latitudes comprehended between the Polar Circle
667 I, XI | Capes Krusenstern and Parry, comprising an extent of more than two
668 II, V | of the factory were not compromised, and persevered in keeping
669 II, XXIV | The Lieutenant himself had conceived so warm an affection for
670 I, XVIII| fading gradually away after concentration of its rays, or a diminution
671 II, I | but what does that concern you?”~“Please, sir, it’s
672 I, VII | occupied with their own concerns to discover the retreat
673 II, VIII | a common danger did not conciliate. Mrs Barnett and Madge saw
674 II, II | that Hobson said was clear, concise, and to the point. There
675 II, XXIII| sail of some kind could be concocted. The ice had still several
676 I, XXII | done, and with the ready concurrence of the astronomer the following
677 II, X | always admired and failure condemned. But the will of Heaven
678 I, XXII | floated in the air, the condensation of which would raise the
679 I, XIV | house was provided with a condensing apparatus which would receive
680 I, XV | which-being in excellent condition-they would yield a large quantity.
681 II, XII | them appeared as large as a condor or a vulture. In the midst
682 I, II | mercy. These massacres were conducted in the most reckless and
683 I, I | through the ceiling, and conducting the dense black smoke into
684 I, XIII | is, in fact, a very bad conductor of beat: it prevents it
685 II, XXIII| and there, as being bad conductors of heat. But it was all
686 II, XV | pointed peaks, their rugged cones, and solid buttresses, forming
687 I, I | mobile nostrils. We must confess that her walk was somewhat
688 II, XV | Kalumah when questioned confirmed all that the Lieutenant
689 II, II | unbroken circular line, confirming Hobson’s opinion that Victoria
690 II, VII | the old trunks aided the conflagration, and they were rapidly consumed.
691 II, X | nature to do so, but he felt confused and astray, and longed for
692 II, XV | fact, a watery vapour which congeals on its precipitation. The
693 II, XV | remains in a state of complete congelation.”~But whether a fog or a
694 I, VII | or three, each choosing congenial companions. Mrs Barnett,
695 I, XVIII| which Mrs Barnett could not conjecture the cause. It was the falling
696 II, III | Island, for nothing now connects it with a continent, and
697 II, XVIII| the island were not fully conscious of the peril in which they
698 I, XXIII| urging upon him all the considerations enumerated above; and one
699 II, XVIII| dragging it to the opening he consigned it to Pond and Kellet. It
700 I, XIII | the future house was to consist merely of a ground-floor.
701 I, XVIII| luminous ring, the colour and consistency of which resembled the milky
702 I, XVII | devotion from his sight. Hobson consoled him by promising him fine
703 II, XXIV | been our comforter, our consoler, the very soul of our little
704 I, XIII | sand, had been beaten and consolidated with heavy blows. The brushwood
705 II, XV | this side had been such a conspicuous object, owing to the height
706 I, XV | aqueous origin. Stone, so conspicuously absent at the cape, was
707 II, II | few minutes later the five conspirators were seated together in
708 II, VII | the wind and rain will conspire to give us a good beating,”
709 I, XVII | from the examination of one constellation to that of another, roving
710 I, XI | called forests, and would constitute an admirable reserve of
711 I, III | rather better. His vigorous constitution had thrown off the effects
712 I, I | made of cocoa-nut fibre. Constitutionally brave, and disposed to obey
713 I, I | well grown men with hardy constitutions. Their complexions are of
714 I, XII | of the lagoon for all the constructions necessary to a fort. It
715 II, XXIII| reflection, “that we should consult our comrades. We ought all
716 II, XII | taking part in none of the consultations, and remaining shut up in
717 I, VIII | race as yet uninfluenced by contact with Europeans we must go
718 I, VII | scooped out large enough to contain two or three persons each.
719 I, XIX | some hundred steps off, contented himself with observing quietly—~“
720 I, XIII | the way for future sport, contenting themselves for the present
721 I, XVIII| ill-humour nor ennui marred the contentment of the little party shut
722 II, XIII | with the sledges and their contents, and as the journey would
723 I, IX | bloodshot eyes. Prepared for all contingencies, he awaited the shock of
724 I, XIV | and might be expected to continue so for five weeks longer,
725 II, XIII | most unfortunate weather continues!”~“Well, Lieutenant, we
726 II, X | but not in a regular or continuous sheet of ice. Large blackish
727 I, XVII | navigators on the subject were contradicted.~“There is certainly something
728 I, V | wife. Yes, he was actually contradicting her, which never happened
729 II, XV | compass are in complete contradiction of each other?”~“At this
730 I, III | but their theories were so contradictory that no definite conclusion
731 I, XV | that had been said to the contrary-no tides in the Arctic Ocean.~“
732 I, XVII | action of the waves, and contrasting strongly with the smooth
733 I, V | practised walking in these contrivances, and she soon became very
734 II, XX | every one on it at once, contrive some sort of a sail with
735 II, XV | patiently,—still to wait!~The convalescence of little Michael continued
736 I, XIII | was decided on, which grew conveniently upon the neighbouring hills,
737 I, XVII | how many discussions and conversations the altered appearance of
738 I, X | therefore always glad to converse with travellers and explorers.
739 II, IV | before the explorers, who conversed at intervals after long
740 I, VIII | floating icebergs, seemed to convert them into molten silver
741 I, XVIII| flushed the northern sky, converting it into a vast dome of fire,
742 I, VI | resting-place for the men taking the convoys of furs from the Great Bear
743 I, XVII | some volcanic land torn and convulsed by earthquakes and eruptions;
744 I, XXI | Mac-Nab pressed her baby convulsively to her ice-cold breast.
745 I, X | it! Phipps in 1773, James Cook and Clerke in 1776 to 1779,
746 II, XIV | senses about her, advised cooling drinks and poultices. Kalumah
747 I, XXIII| calmness restored, and the coolness necessary for taking his
748 I, XVII | poetically described by Cooper. Some thirty of these snares
749 II, XV | wounds of the ice-field bled copiously,” and the opening of these “
750 I, X | reconnoitre the position of a copper-mine which native miners had
751 I, IX | harp-string; but the wet cordage no longer acted in the grooves
752 I, IV | legions of tittamegs, the Coregonus of naturalists, disported
753 I, XV | the tactics of Vauban and Cormontaigne), and knew that to make
754 I, VIII | along the coasts of New Cornwall as far as the Arctic Ocean;
755 I, VII | sledge, and indeed be was so corpulent that all exertion was disagreeable
756 II, XXI | home, or, to speak more correctly, when it abandoned them.
757 I, XIII | the east, as fair as the corresponding slope on the opposite coast.
758 I, III | could watch for months for a cosmical phenomenon. He had a specialty
759 I, VII | Barnett, on being a more cosmopolitan traveller than all of them.”~“
760 I, XVI | about his person, a striped cotton shirt, wide cloth trousers,
761 I, XIX | attacked by a slight fit of coughing, she put her hand before
762 I, XXI | and we have time to hold a council of war.”~“Well, Lieutenant,”
763 II, XXIV | long been his friend and counsellor, that he could not bid her
764 I, XVIII| form a kind of moat, the counterscarp of which would protect the
765 I, X | when I think that fellow countrymen of my own-Englishmen-are
766 I, XIV | it was to be safe from a coup de main. The factory was
767 I, XXI | seemed to have left the court-at any rate, they were nowhere
768 I, XVI | was offered with so much courtesy and kindliness of manner,
769 I, XVI | cold to bleach them.~Their cousins, the polecats, however,
770 II, XXIII| made of all the clothes and coverlets still remaining fastened
771 II, VIII | advancing here. It already covers half the plain, and the
772 I, XIV | with the characteristic cowardice of their race at the first
773 I, VII | which each person could cower until the storm was over.
774 II, XXIII| a great white snowball, cowered motionless at the very edge
775 I, XI | nourishing than that of cows. Their dead bodies are not
776 I, XX | warmest corner, and its cradle was rocked in turn by those
777 I, IX | to aid in navigating the craft; and what with the spray,
778 I, XVI | necessary to deal with this crafty animal, which took care
779 II, V | latter were bound with iron cramps, that they might be able
780 I, I | made its way through the cranks and chinks of the doors
781 II, XVIII| from the enceinte by the crashing avalanches, over which they
782 II, VIII | and their naked branches creaked and moaned as the south-east
783 I, VI | admire so much will soon create difficulties for us, and
784 I, VI | break up, and the waterfalls created by the action of the rays
785 I, XIV | whence it issues at night and creates great havoc amongst beavers,
786 I, VIII | capes and intersected by creeks. The wooded heights beyond,
787 I, V | hands of Mrs Joliffe. The crest-fallen Corporal was obliged to
788 I, XIII | covered, driving it into the crevices with calking- irons and
789 I, XXII | imagine myself one of the crew of a small vessel, and now
790 I, XVIII| lost its charm, and even cribbage became uninteresting. The
791 II, VII | backs bent like two old crippled peasants, they struck into
792 II, IV | broke upon the ear, the crisp crackling of the dead branches
793 II, XV | creatures enjoy unmolested the crops which could be of no use
794 I, XIII | each side to receive the crossbeams of the outer wall, between
795 II, XIV | in the winter bears will crouch patiently near these holes,
796 II, XVIII| dealt with, with pick and crowbar, but the large blocks had
797 II, XV | were already beginning to crowd together, and to pile themselves
798 II, XVII | avalanche. Masses of ice were crowding upon each other and tumbling
799 II, V | remembered the scheme of crowning Cape Bathurst with a redoubt
800 I, XI | black breasts; ash-coloured crows, a kind of mocking jay of
801 I, XIX | love doth cheer me;~The cruel biting frost I brave~But
802 I, IX | another moment and it would crush it to atoms. Norman, looking
803 I, XV | pebbles peculiar to the crystalline strata of one class of igneous
804 II, XIX | the microscopic anima[l]culae which form their principal
805 I, XII | sun was approaching the culminating-point of its course, and the two
806 II, XV | protect the plot of ground cultivated by his wife. Under ordinary
807 I, II | territories suitable for cultivation, such as the Red River and
808 I, XIV | their approach! and how cunningly they lured it on to its
809 II, X | the Behring and Kamtchatka Cur rents There were now, however,
810 I, XV | slaughtered, but to satisfy her curiosity with regard to the country
811 II, X | large blue eyes and fair curly hair, like his father, the
812 I, III | like the scratching of a curry-comb than the caresses of a human
813 II, XIII | interminable crevasse, mentally cursing the mildness of the winter
814 I, X | considerably. The western banks, curving slightly, ran almost due
815 I, XVII | soon covered with a soft Cushion several feet thick, which
816 I, VIII | Lieutenant, as was their custom, communicated to each other
817 II, IX | return home resumed her customary occupations, and worked
818 I, I | s Bay Company—~“PROPELLE CUTUM.”~“Really, Corporal Joliffe,
819 I, I | English bread and butter, and dainty morsels of corned beef that
820 I, XVI | work constructing their dams and laying up their piles
821 II, X | carried the child about, dandled and rocked him so often,
822 I, VII | Penny, Franklin, M’Clure, Dane, and Morton — did not get
823 I, XIX | year in the service of the Danish governor of Upper Navik,
824 II, XXIII| purposes, as he no longer dared to draw for a supply upon
825 II, II | Passage since McClure’s daring discovery—at least only
826 I, XXIII| and the moon, so soon to darken it, was as yet invisible
827 I, XXIII| the disc of the sun was darkened, and a few dogs which happened
828 I, XI | of a narrow creek called Darnley Bay, of which Cape Parry
829 I, XVI | of the tail, and with a dash of the same on the forehead.
830 II, XV | alternated with streaks and dashes of all the colours of the
831 I, I | Madge treated Paulina as her daughter.~It was in honour of Paulina
832 I, XXIII| moon.”~At last the great day-the 18th July-dawned. According
833 I, XVI | be dissolved again in the day-time.~But the settlers were able
834 I, IV | there were not many in those days-a telescope for his selenographic
835 I, XX | maintained. for another fifteen days-until the new moon, in fact.”~“
836 I, X | the glory of the unknown dazzled their sight. Probably real
837 II, VII | Hobson.~“It won’t be as deadly as grape-shot,” replied
838 II, VII | Lieutenant. There was plenty of deadwood about, and they piled it
839 II, VII | attempt it, for they were deafened by the hurricane, and out
840 II, XVIII| smaller pieces were easily dealt with, with pick and crowbar,
841 I, X | fate? Was it not two of us, Dease and Simpson, who were sent
842 I, XI | days during which they were debarred from attacking more valuable
843 I, XXI | desperate as before.~It was now debated whether it would be better
844 II, XV | stopped and appeared to be debating some point. When the others
845 I, XV | presence of the volcanic débris on the shore; for at a distance
846 II, X | Kalumah felt they owed a debt of gratitude, often passed
847 II, I | your presentiments did not deceive you; but can you explain
848 I, XVI | temperature was already decidedly colder, the thermometer
849 II, XIV | it was to be planked and decked before the end of the month.
850 I, II | the trade has gradually declined, and this number is now
851 II, IV | sea-level. The different declivities of the island, the little
852 I, XX | spruce-beer made from a decoction of young fir-branchlets
853 II, XV | venturing on to the half decomposed, or “pancake” ice, in all
854 I, I | into the next room, was decorated in a style alike costly
855 I, II | reign of Elizabeth, a royal decree restricted the use of costly
856 II, I | the reasonableness of his deductions, but he was furious at such
857 I, XXIII| of Orion. The darkness deepened every moment.~Thomas Black
858 I, IX | awful gulf, which, growing deeper and blacker every moment,
859 I, IV | seal-skin boots. Fur caps and deer-skin belts completed the costumes.~
860 I, XXI | certainly; but two things might defeat it. The door of the shed
861 I, XV | and knew that to make his defence complete the summit of Cape
862 II, XV | despair, for whilst he was defending one end of his field the
863 I, XII | having met with an easily defensible position.~The weather remained
864 II, XXI | catastrophe could not now be deferred much longer, and ominous
865 I, II | made them drunk, setting at defiance the Act of Parliament forbidding
866 II, XIX | difficult in the vitiated air deficient as it was in oxygen, and
867 II, XV | was formed were clearly defined, and the glistening surface
868 I, III | so contradictory that no definite conclusion could be arrived
869 II, XII | the day of departure was definitely fixed. But even then he
870 I, III | or exact measurements and definitions were required, Thomas Black
871 I, VII | unexplored tracts which will long defy the efforts of the boldest
872 I, III | which kept Thomas Black from deigning to show a sign of life.
873 II, XIII | they soon recovered their dejection and declared themselves
874 I, XV | Antarctic circle, in Tierra del Fuego, and Australasia.
875 II, XV | surface was tinged with many a delicately-shaded hue. Jasper-like ribbons
876 I, XIV | quick clear fire they proved delicious.~Then there were the supplies
877 I, VI | make acquaintance with the delights and marvels of the long
878 II, XXIII| made signals—they were in a delirium of excitement.~At half-past
879 I, IX | discover who were their deliverers. One of the men took the
880 I, XIII | supplying the Company’s demands for fur and feathers, so
881 II, XV | beneath her quiet exterior demeanour. Lieutenant Hobson’s admiration
882 I, XXII | eruptions was once more demonstrated.~Hobson well understood
883 I, VII | three-quarters of an hour some ten dens had been scooped out large
884 II, IV | however, be remarked that the density, or rather specific weight
885 I, XII | been dancing no one could deny, but that the dancer was
886 I, XI | There is certainly no denying,” said Corporal Joliffe, “
887 I, XXII | embarrassing if we had been dependent on the truant for drinkable
888 II, VIII | enough to save us? Everything depends upon that.”~“The winter
889 I, VI | inflames their blood-another deplorable result of the action of
890 I, XIX | districts were not altogether depopulated even in the winter, and
891 I, II | inquired Mrs Barnett.~“The depopulation of the hunting territories,
892 II, I | converted by successive deposits of sand and earth into apparently
893 I, X | it seemed best to him to descend the valley of the Coppermine,
894 II, XIII | the expedition, think of deserting those confided to him, even
895 II, XV | complete solitude, the same desertion, not a bird, not an animal
896 I, XVI | circumstances attending its death deserve relation in detail, as they
897 I, I | honour is due, Mrs Joliffe deserves part of your commendation;
898 I, I | his power to forward the design of the celebrated traveller
899 I, XIII | what more could any one desire?~Certainly an artist who
900 II, XXII | them, entreating them to desist. They yielded, some of them
901 I, XVIII| But he was compelled to desist-his instruments “burnt” his
902 II, VIII | them.~Two miles beyond this desolated forest the wanderers arrived
903 I, XXII | have expected.”~“I never despaired,” replied the lady. “The
904 I, XVI | other, had recourse in its desperation to a flying leap, thinking
905 I, VIII | inland otters are not to be despised, and those which frequent
906 I, II | association. It was this despotic, and, in a certain sense,
907 II, X | proud of the resemblance. At dessert the baby was solemnly weighed.
908 I, XIII | prospects of success, was destined never to be carried out,
909 II, II | become an island.”~“A strange destiny is ours, Lieutenant,” said
910 II, XVIII| every means was tried to destroy or get rid of the ice in
911 I, XV | unbroken enclosure with detached forts (a great improvement
912 I, XVI | death deserve relation in detail, as they proved that Hobson
913 II, I | and physical courage and determination of his companions, he determined
914 I, IV | latitude, a chronometer for determining the longitudes, a few maps,
915 II, VIII | rather tired with the many détours they had had to make, they
916 I, II | Hudson’s Bay Company was detrimental to all agricultural enterprise.
917 II, XVII | the island if it should deviate in the very least from the
918 I, V | Barnett and Madge, the latter dexterously wielding the long Esquimaux
919 II, III | it’s lucky for you we didn’t call it Paulina Barnett
920 I, VIII | the Chippeway race, and differ but little in customs and
921 I, I | married without loss of dignity. Madge was about five years
922 II, XIX | poor creatures did from a dim instinct of self-preservation,
923 II, X | women, were assembled in the dimly lighted room.~Hobson came
924 I, I | of smoke into the room, dimming the brightness of the lamps,
925 I, XIII | soldiers were to occupy the dining-hall provisionally, and a kind
926 I, XIII | with the stove of the large dining-room, which was to heat it and
927 II, IV | disc of the sun began to dip below the horizon, and before
928 I, XII | western horizon without dipping beneath it.~For the first
929 I, XIV | his orders, and under his directions, the house was provided
930 I, XVIII| half an hour, it suddenly disappeared-not fading gradually away after
931 I, XIX | they spoke of it. Did they disapprove of the construction of a
932 I, XIII | carried out, and another disaster would have to be added to
933 I, XXII | burst with a noise like the discharge of artillery.~Sudden changes
934 I, XV | pumice-stones and pebbles have been discharged by them to this distance,
935 I, XIV | faithful Madge, another worthy disciple of Isaak Walton was perhaps
936 I, I | slightest infraction of discipline, and mercilessly ordered
937 II, X | lest they should become discontented, as he had really no reason
938 I, III | despair, and were about to discontinue their exhausting efforts,
939 I, VII | and probably the first discoverer of the Pole will have been
940 I, VII | facts. The most intrepid discoverers of the Arctic regions -
941 I, X | Repulse Bay in the hope of discovering the much-longed-for passage.
942 I, XXIII| minutes past eleven the discs of the two luminaries ought
943 II, XII | either not seeing them or disdaining to take any notice of them,
944 II, XIV | attacked with this terrible disease, but cases do occasionally
945 II, XXIII| darkness. The colonists “disembarked,” and falling on their knees,
946 I, II | Hunters have gone away in disgust, leaving none but the most
947 I, XV | of the sun, whose yellow disk was now beginning to disappear
948 II, VII | pieces around them, the dislocated branches intercepted their
949 I, XI | were, however, not to be disobeyed.~Polar bears and birds were,
950 II, XVII | hurrying away in terrified disorder, uttering cries of despair.~
951 II, XXIII| His mind was evidently disordered, and it was useless to reason
952 I, XIV | the ensuing season.~The dispensary of the new fort contained
953 I, XXIII| 1860.~The mists did not disperse. The sun shone feebly through
954 II, VIII | gravity of which had been displaced by the alteration in its
955 I, I | silver foxes; and above this display was an inscription in brilliantly-coloured
956 I, XVI | attention to the great ingenuity displayed by beavers in the construction
957 I, IV | Coregonus of naturalists, disported themselves in the water,
958 I, IV | Company had placed at his disposal a little portable medicine-chest,
959 II, IV | easy to see the regular disposition of the sheets of ice piled
960 I, XVI | very polite, placed the dispute on another footing.~“As
961 I, IV | soldiers of rival associations disputed the possession of the rich
962 I, XI | different origin, and of such dissimilar customs, would not encamp
963 II, XXII | broken down all the ordinary distinctions of race.~A little before
964 I, XVII | dazzling coats scarcely distinguishable from the shining ice-truly
965 I, XXIII| accounted for by the irregular distribution of land and the narrowness
966 I, XI | game in the surrounding districts-was not neglected.~Were these
967 II, VIII | but she did not wish to disturb him, and decided to go without
968 II, XV | or our compass, nothing disturbs the sun.”~The march was
969 I, XVIII| at any time fill in the ditch a few hours.~Whilst the
970 I, XI | ducks; scoters or black divers, &c. &c., whose mingled
971 II, II | Two principal currents divide the dangerous latitudes
972 I, XIX | These cunning creatures divined the snare laid for them,
973 II, IV | but clear cut, as if the division had been made with a sharp
974 I, XII | scheme, it had doubtless been divulged in the commercial centres
975 I, IX | the north-east, and if it doesn’t blow too hard, I hope
976 I, II | capital of a million of dollars, which was carrying on operations
977 I, XVIII| converting it into a vast dome of fire, but after the magnificent
978 I, XIII | which they intended to domesticate for the sake of their milk
979 I, I | the Europeans, the large doses of Captain Craventy’s “fire-water”
980 I, XIX | of my dreams I~Thy love doth cheer me;~The cruel biting
981 II, XX | Hobson shook his head doubtfully. His only hope was in the
982 II, VII | crouched down in their hole, doubting whether it would not perhaps
983 I, VII | Burton, Livingstone Speke, Douglas, Stuart, &c. Others, on
984 I, XV | of the upper jaw curved down-wards are much more largely developed.~
985 II, XVIII| risk of provoking fresh downfalls; but the proceedings were
986 I, XV | defences such as cliffs or downs? What was it, in fact, which
987 I, XXII | suppose our thirsty men will drain it quite dry.”~“Yes, we’
988 II, XVII | many a glass of spirits was drank in honour of the event.~
989 II, IX | coast, although he did not dream that he was so near it.~
990 I, XII | although he would not now have dreamed of retracing his steps.~“
991 II, I | the men drew off, little dreaming what a strange and fearful
992 I, XIX | icicles lie chill.~Child of my dreams I~Thy love doth cheer me;~
993 II, IX | looked about her with a dreamy unsatisfied expression,
994 I, XIX | with sorrow filled,~Aches drearily !~My sweet child at my songs
995 I, XVII | the rooms were suitably dressed; the wooden walls were hung
996 I, XXII | slight, and merely required dressing.~Two miserable days ensued,
997 I, XXI | beating a retreat, they would drill a few loopholes in the walls
998 I, VII | did their best, but the drivers’ whips no longer produced
999 I, IX | to his bark, which riot a drop of water can penetrate.
1000 II, XIII | if they had been suddenly dropped by a hand incapable of holding
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