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Part, Chapter
1001 I, XX | of the cold was intense drowsiness, which Hobson earnestly
1002 II, IV | now a fine opportunity of drying his legs, of which he gladly
1003 I, XVI | with you,” replied Hobson dryly.~“Well, sir, however that
1004 I, VI | flexible, and neither damp nor dryness injures it. The Indians
1005 I, I | Hobson, an Irishman from Dublin, who had now been dead for
1006 I, XI | were plenty of birds of the duck tribe; but only a few Polar
1007 II, XX | abyss. He escaped with a ducking which might have had tragic
1008 I, VI | CHAPTER VI.~ A WAPITI DUEL.~Two hundred miles had been
1009 II, XV | left there.”~Marbre, struck dumb by this irrefutable argument,
1010 II, XV | Mrs Barnett was equally dumfounded.~Kalumah now approached
1011 II, XV | was laden with the heated dust of the continent. Unfortunately
1012 II, XV | been taken for one of those Dutch boats which venture upon
1013 II, XXIV | given, it is needless to dwell on the courage and energy
1014 II, II | colonists was—and the Lieutenant dwelt long on this point—that
1015 I, I | fur, with a head-dross of eagle’s feathers spread out like
1016 I, II | the Duke of Albemarle, the Earl of Shaftesbury, &c. Its
1017 I, II | Hudson’s Bay Company.~In the earliest times men employed the skins
1018 I, XIV | size of a pigeon, and has earned its name by its habit of
1019 II, IV | half ice, half sand and earth-rose some ten feet from the water.
1020 I, I | Captain.”~An immense brick and earthenware stove occupied the centre
1021 I, IX | can penetrate. This light, easily-managed kayak, floating as it does,
1022 II, XV | walking towards the sun in an easterly direction.~Kalumah did not
1023 I, XIX | race of Esquimaux, °` or eaters of raw flesh,” which is
1024 I, XIII | overhung the walls like the eaves of a chalet. Above this
1025 II, VII | the wind, and the peculiar echo could no longer be made
1026 II, I | moon had not completely eclipsed the sun. And what could
1027 I, XIV | took a great interest in “ economic “ botany, only met with .
1028 II, XVII | as there was no need for economising the stores under present
1029 I, XVIII| Thomas Black was raving in ecstasy, dead to all terrestrial
1030 II, IX | had no longer any doubt of effecting her purpose, as she was
1031 II, XVIII| seemed more likely to be effective. The men wielded the pickaxe
1032 I, XI | taken, and Hobson, most effectively aided by Thomas Black, was
1033 I, XIV | each about the size of an egg.~The other plant was that
1034 I, I | venison, and musk beef. The eggs, milk, and citron prescribed
1035 I, X | relinquished the narrow-minded egotistical position it had taken up?”~“
1036 I, XXIII| States, Spain, Algeria, and~Egypt.”~“Well, Mr Black,” resumed
1037 II, X | between seventy-three and eighty miles north of the spot
1038 I, X | half-that is to say, about eighty-five or ninety miles. The deep
1039 I, XIII | windows -one being made to eject the impure air from within,
1040 II, XXIII| carpenter was particularly elated; all eagerly scanned the
1041 I, I | looked upon Madge as an elder sister, and Madge treated
1042 I, XXIII| obedience. The four soldiers elected to accompany him were Belcher,
1043 I, XVIII| had cut off the supply of electricity which gave it life.~It was
1044 I, XIV | much delighted with the elegant way in which he had rounded
1045 II, VII | of mammoths, these fossil elephants being very numerous in these
1046 I, II | but during the reign of Elizabeth, a royal decree restricted
1047 I, XXIII| suffering, with more than usual eloquence.~“Yes, yes, madam, you are
1048 I, XVI | with great ease, and thus elude their pursuers. In the winter,
1049 II, XXI | understood their repugnance to embarking on the raft; but then he
1050 I, XXII | Sergeant. “It would have been embarrassing if we had been dependent
1051 II, V | replied Marbre, with some embarrassment.~“Your trap has not yielded
1052 II, XV | trunks of trees were seen embedded in the ice, all, however,
1053 I, XI | of cinders, the extinct embers of the fires.~The whole
1054 I, V | ice-bound north-the poetry embodied in the Sagas, and sung by
1055 I, XVI | polecats, however, which emit so disagreeable an odour,
1056 I, VIII | account of the fragrance it emits when burnt.~Some hundred
1057 I, XVI | A cloak belonging to the Emperor of Russia, composed entirely
1058 I, VIII | decreased in the Celestial Empire, they still command very
1059 I, VII | madam, what am I but an employé of the Hudson’s Bay Company?
1060 II, XII | resolved to abandon them, en route, if they harassed
1061 I, II | that sumptuary laws were enacted to control too great extravagance,
1062 II, XV | the rainbow, strewn with enamelled arabesques, sparkling crystals,
1063 I, X | and indeed the marks of encampments, extinguished fires, &c.,
1064 I, XXI | sterling, in which he was encased, and tied the other to his
1065 I, XV | palisading which was, to encircle the fort. An inner court
1066 I, VIII | rapidly, no obstacle was encountered, and his little troop arrived
1067 II, XIII | without a sledge or any encumbrances might get across, but for
1068 I, XIII | proceed very rapidly without endangering the safety of the building.
1069 I, XVI | said Jaspar Hobson, vainly endeavouring to conceal his chagrin at
1070 I, XIX | ill-chosen? In spite of all his endeavours, Hobson could get no satisfactory
1071 II, XIII | east we run a risk, after enduring great fatigues, of finding
1072 I, XVI | year, and to enable the engineers of the tribe to build the
1073 I, XX | dear to the heart of all Englishmen, was kept with due solemnity.
1074 I, I | female grace. She was an Englishwoman from Yorkshire, possessed
1075 II, III | the necessary information engraved upon it, and then set them
1076 I, VI | mercy.~The wapitis were so engrossed in their desperate struggle
1077 I, IX | the wind, threatened to engulf the little bark. This was
1078 I, XIX | her mouth in the manner enjoined by the first rules of civilised
1079 I, XIX | and it had only managed to enlarge its prison, not to escape
1080 II, XX | now the sea had evidently enlarged the crevasse, and the house
1081 II, X | And when do you propose enlightening them?”~“At once. Sergeant
1082 I, XVII | behind their fellows, still enlivened the vast solitude with their
1083 II, IX | under the influence of that enmity which all natives feel for
1084 I, XIV | yielding a good crop in the ensuing season.~The dispensary of
1085 I, I | supply game enough for these enterprising hunters. They already saw
1086 II, XX | the Lieutenant once more entertain a slight hope. He pointed
1087 I, XVI | difficult to show the grants entitling you to any privileges here.”~“
1088 I, XX | which Hobson earnestly entreated his companions to resist.
1089 II, XXII | flung herself before them, entreating them to desist. They yielded,
1090 II, XV | opinion which I cannot now enumerate. But the icebergs invariably
1091 II, X | their way to the south with envious eyes.~Of course none were
1092 I, XIII | had been exploring the environs of Cape Bathurst, and satisfied
1093 II, II | too far north nor too far eouth. To have to cross a few
1094 I, XIX | and which was quite an episode in the long dreary dark
1095 I, VII | geographical knowledge of the equatorial countries than of the Polar
1096 II, XV | really seemed to retain their equilibrium by a miracle. Others had
1097 I, I | Reliance. Having crossed the equinoctial regions, she was doubtless
1098 I, V | excited-the speed of his equipage delighted him. He shouted,
1099 I, V | temperature propitious, our equipages shoot along like express
1100 I, XXII | to south.~“We have now to erase a river from the map of
1101 I, XXIII| every one knows that no error can creep into them, established,
1102 I, XI | able to rectify certain errors in previous marine surveys;
1103 I, XIV | Hope, and he well knew how essential it was to be safe from a
1104 I, VII | successive expeditions, establishing depôts of provisions and
1105 I, VIII | Gulf, one of the numerous estuaries which irregularly indent
1106 I, IX | the boat, which could not evade them. It filled rapidly,
1107 II, XXI | sea-water in freezing and evaporation. A few blocks of ice were
1108 II, I | frowned.~“Well,” he replied evasively, “we made a mistake in our
1109 I, XV | The dog-house was on the eve of being finished, and very
1110 I, XXIII| their wings. The hush of eventide fell upon all animated nature.~
1111 II, VI | arrange together for all eventualities.~“Sergeant Long,” he began, “
1112 II, V | anxieties, and dangers must eventually be swallowed up by the deep,
1113 II, XII | across the ever-changing, ever-moving blocks of ice.~Really all
1114 II, XX | Reconaissances were taken everyday, but great caution was necessary,
1115 | everyone
1116 I, XII | never yet been made with exactitude. Jaspar Hobson decided to
1117 II, XIII | not disguised nor have I exaggerated the truth, and I know, my
1118 II, XVIII| only ten feet had been excavated in the mass of earth and
1119 II, XXII | in, the mean temperature exceeded 68° Fahrenheit, and the
1120 I, IV | size, their weight often exceeding forty pounds. Pikes, voracious
1121 I, IV | manufacture of which the natives excel. These boots are absolutely
1122 I, I | were come.~But, with two exceptions, Captain Craventy’s guests
1123 I, V | Corporal became more and more excited-the speed of his equipage delighted
1124 I, XI | search, when he heard an exclamation from Mrs Joliffe, who had
1125 II, X | ruminants, which require an exclusively vegetable diet, proved that
1126 I, XVI | slightly foreign accent.~“Excuse me, sir,” replied Hobson
1127 I, XXIII| and Hobson resolved to execute his project of sending to
1128 II, V | fortification. Mac-Nab also put into execution, with his chief’s approval,
1129 I, XI | they did not last long, and exercised no sensible influence upon
1130 I, IV | Joliffe, always a busybody, exerted himself without producing
1131 I, XVI | was shown at the London Exhibition of 1851, and valued at £
1132 I, III | loquacious Corporal continued to exhort the unconscious traveller.~“
1133 I, XIII | construction of this house, as yet existing only in imagination. This,
1134 I, II | just when a great demand exists for furs. Hunters have gone
1135 II, XXIII| and the compressed air in expanding abstracted the heat from
1136 I, XXI | day passed by in anxious expectation, and at night no one could
1137 I, XXIII| of furs had surpassed his expectations, and the Company might well
1138 I, IX | uproar drowned their voices. Expecting every moment to perish,
1139 I, I | greater part of which was expended in adventurous expeditions,
1140 II, X | towards the south, but at the expense of a vast amount of time,
1141 I, I | presently to go through experiences of a most terrible nature,
1142 I, VII | and if ever you try the experiment, I should not be afraid
1143 I, XV | Nature makes her chemical experiments, and it appears to me that
1144 II, XIII | wreaths of smoke from the expiring fire never to be rekindled;
1145 II, I | floating island, and this explains why the furred and other
1146 II, I | attentively to Hobson’s explanations, and could not but see the
1147 I, XII | fresh provisions and to export their commodities.~On the
1148 I, II | extraordinary decrease in the exportation of furs?” inquired Mrs Barnett.~“
1149 I, XIV | large item in the Company’s exports.~During their excursions
1150 I, XVIII| voice; her gestures were so expressive that imaginary persons seemed
1151 I, VII | say positively whether it extends to the North Pole. For my
1152 I, XXIII| subject to a similar apparent extension, and therefore it may be
1153 I, VIII | day. From this harbour an extensive view was obtained of the
1154 II, XV | going on beneath her quiet exterior demeanour. Lieutenant Hobson’
1155 I, XVII | to the variations of the external temperature, so as to keep
1156 I, XX | did not become dark on the extinction of the flames. A bright
1157 II, X | Joliffe served up a few extras at dinner, for it was the
1158 I, II | enacted to control too great extravagance, especially in furs, for
1159 I, XIII | of the site, and at the extremities of the inside walls, to
1160 I, I | near-sighted, and a double eye-glass rested upon her long straight
1161 I, XIX | had the flat noses, long eye-lashes, large mouths, thick lips,
1162 I, XX | dangerous to the new fort f Such was the question which
1163 I, XIII | thirty on the smaller. The façade of the house would therefore
1164 I, XIX | creatures with intelligent faces, who looked about them with
1165 I, XII | across the meridian, would facilitate the work of the two observers.~
1166 II, XIV | glimmer of light which did not fade away for an hour, and the
1167 II, VII | just before the twilight faded and gave place to the two
1168 II, VIII | said Madge, “when all food fails them, and they are famished
1169 I, XIII | added to the long list of failures in Arctic enterprise.~
1170 I, XX | heightened beauty. It was like a fairy scene in which ice and snow
1171 II, I | observatories, the almanacs were false, and that the long desired
1172 I, XI | winter, however, driven by famine from higher latitudes, there
1173 I, I | spread out like a lady’s fan, and quivering with every
1174 II, IV | smiling at Mrs Barnett’s fancies. The brave woman ran on
1175 II, X | penetration of the most far-sighted man, and it will know that
1176 I, XX | dazzling whiteness of the far-stretching carpet of snow, and produced
1177 I, XIV | waterfowl figured in the bill of fare. Besides the ducks which
1178 II, I | offing, drew back to the farthest limits of the horizon—when
1179 II, VI | a rock to which we could fasten our vessel!”~“Well,” rejoined
1180 I, XVII | enough to satisfy the most fastidious skaters of the Serpentine.
1181 I, XX | being accustomed to long fasts in the winter, required
1182 I, VII | Australia will have been fathomed before the Frigid Zone has
1183 I, XV | from water three hundred fathoms deep. It is probable that
1184 II, I | ourselves with. No one can find fault with us. Nature alone is
1185 II, VII | they pressed on in silence, fearing, not without reason, that
1186 I, XX | nose paid dearly for the feast enjoyed by the eyes.~During
1187 I, VIII | branches form a striking feature of the landscape; but the
1188 I, XVII | trace of the distinctive features of the country had disappeared;
1189 II, XIX | Barnett was for a moment a feeble woman. Was not her emotion
1190 II, X | was, however, useful for feeding the dogs, and enabled them
1191 II, VII | sea which bears us along feels its power, and large waves
1192 I, XIII | these firs were chosen and felled-they were neither barked nor
1193 II, VII | thinking that he might meet fellow-countrymen, perhaps even members of
1194 I, XVI | costume ascribed to his fellow-hunters by the great American writer;
1195 II, XIV | however, we will spare this fellow-sufferer, and only defend ourselves
1196 I, VIII | and costumes from their fellow-tribes. They are in constant communication
1197 I, XIV | winter set in. A strong fence of pointed stakes, planted
1198 I, XV | the shape of a half-moon, fenced with tall pointed stakes,
1199 I, XIV | whalers are exposed from the ferocity of these animals.~Now and
1200 I, III | 1778, and by Bonditch and Ferrer in 1806; but their theories
1201 I, VII | between this comparatively fertile region, and the long white
1202 II, XVII | common meals were quite festal, as there was no need for
1203 I, XVII | them have been exported, fetching half a guinea a piece.~During
1204 II, XIV | alternations of shivering and fever, soon reduced the poor little
1205 I, XXIII| Black became really ill. The feverish state he had been in for
1206 I, VII | we have not to dread the fevers of the unhealthy torrid
1207 I, I | it were made of cocoa-nut fibre. Constitutionally brave,
1208 II, XIX | the inclemencies of the fickle weather.~Search was also
1209 I, XXIII| the horizon with provoking fickleness and uncertainty. What if
1210 II, XIX | me everywhere, and whose fidelity deserved a far different
1211 I, XV | one provided with a good field-glass would have been able to
1212 II, XXIII| together, the bear growling fiercely.~The water was still rising,
1213 I, XIX | growls became louder and fiercer, and looking down the hunters
1214 I, VI | bullets put an end to the fight between the wapitis; and
1215 II, XVIII| aperture was made, and a figure appeared at it which it
1216 I, IV | to it, and it completely fills a vast natural hollow. The
1217 II, VI | take no pleasure in the fineness of the climate.~On the 21st
1218 I, XX | from a decoction of young fir-branchlets burst the barrels in which
1219 I, XVI | wolverines or gluttons, fire-arms bad to be used. The lynx
1220 I, I | doses of Captain Craventy’s “fire-water” imbibed by the Indians
1221 I, XIV | stream. Sergeant Long was a first-rate angler, and nothing could
1222 I, IX | scarcely filled by the fitful breeze, flapped against
1223 I, XX | pale; bluish tongues still fitfully licked the plump sides of
1224 II, XV | solid buttresses, forming a fitting frame for the weird fantastic
1225 II, XXI | this rough structure, the fittings of which were necessarily
1226 I, XX | evening a huge bowl of punch flamed in the centre of the table;
1227 I, IX | caught the boat upon the flank, and it was turned over
1228 I, VII | the keen north winds, the flanks of the hills were clothed
1229 I, IX | filled by the fitful breeze, flapped against the mast. The fog
1230 I, XX | glorious spectacle of the flashing sheaf of flames standing
1231 II, III | meat, biscuits, and a few flasks of rum with them, and there
1232 I, XIV | Steeped in boiling water, and flavoured with a few drops of brandy
1233 I, II | other animals, compelled to flee before the invasion of the
1234 I, XII | circumstances with the easy flexibility of their race, and always
1235 I, VIII | the shores strewn with flints and blocks of granite, the
1236 II, I | foundation of ice, which floats upon the water by reason
1237 II, XIII | liquid. All the icebergs and floes here had come from latitudes
1238 I, XVII | height; we have high water or flood, for the sun and moon being
1239 II, III | occurred. The storm raged, the floods of heaven were let loose,
1240 I, XIII | house-outside and inside walls, flooring, ceiling, partitions, rafters,
1241 II, XIX | to judge of the point of flotation, and the stability which
1242 I, I | truncated cone, composed of flour, fat, rein-deer venison,
1243 I, VI | Joliffe. Neither shouts nor flourishings of the whip had the slightest
1244 I, XIV | leaves fall off just at the flowering season, turned out to be
1245 II, VIII | and ducks of every variety fluttered about, uttering their various
1246 II, XII | too, seemed anxious to fly from the doomed island.
1247 I, IX | a huge wave upreared its foam-crowned crest, whilst in front a
1248 I, XVI | and Sabine going after one foe, and Mrs Barnett, Hobson,
1249 I, II | 491~ ~ Foes, . . . . . . . . . . . 9,
1250 II, X | considerable, and it was often too foggy for the rising and setting
1251 I, XVIII| but they were all the good folks required. Mrs Barnett generally
1252 I, III | descendant of the witty La Fontaine’s savant who fell into a
1253 I, XV | them, the party set out on foot-the sledges being full-to return
1254 II, VI | tinder-box and some touchwood [Footnote: A fungus used as tinder (
1255 I, II | defiance the Act of Parliament forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors
1256 I, VI | and that we shall have to ford or go round them. All these
1257 I, X | intersected by numerous but easily fordable streams. The sledges advanced
1258 I, II | I must add, the want of foresight of the hunters. The game
1259 I, XIII | aid of a little portable forge he was able to make all
1260 II, XIX | thing I could never have forgiven you,” replied Madge,—”a
1261 II, IV | a compulsory bath.”~“You forgot what I told you about not
1262 I, VIII | of marine plants in the forked branches of trees. The hunter
1263 I, XXI | my friends !”~It was the forlorn-hope. These terrible creatures
1264 II, XVIII| through the crust of ice which forma the foundation of the island.
1265 I, XIII | stratum of the Tertiary formations.~A furnace was constructed
1266 I, XVII | commence. The last Arctic birds forsook the gloomy shores of the
1267 II, V | really formed a very strong fortification. Mac-Nab also put into execution,
1268 II, V | Paris within the line of fortifications. If then it should break
1269 I, XXII | the 5th July. In another fortnight-July 18th-the solar eclipse was
1270 I, XVIII| luminous meteor was about forty-five degrees in diameter, and
1271 I, XXIII| inquired.~“Seventy degrees, forty-four minutes, and thirty-seven
1272 II, VII | teeth of mammoths, these fossil elephants being very numerous
1273 II, X | unless it was as a kind of foster-father or nurse to the baby. He
1274 I, II | the Company’s motive in founding a factory on the borders
1275 II, IV | sea-level! We know that four-fifths of a floating mass of ice
1276 II, XV | imprisoned air-bubbles; and the fragility of the huge structure, built
1277 I, VIII | incense “ on account of the fragrance it emits when burnt.~Some
1278 II, XV | buttresses, forming a fitting frame for the weird fantastic
1279 I, XII | Canada when it belonged to France, which comes to much the
1280 I, X | explorers, William Moor and Francis Smith, penetrated as far
1281 II, XXIV | go back to Europe via San Francisco and the United States.~But
1282 II, XXIII| turned out, the decision was fraught with consequences of incalculable
1283 I, XVIII| they had constantly to be freed from the snow which blocked
1284 I, XVI | our hunters, as it only frequents the north of Europe and
1285 I, XIII | pike, and other available fresh-water fish; and the little river
1286 II, XXIII| speed increased as the wind freshened, but the ice was melting
1287 I, VIII | now in consolidating the freshly-fallen snow, and making it practicable
1288 II, IX | plunged into cold water, the freshness of which revived her. A
1289 I, XXI | darkness, howling with rage and fright.~
1290 I, XX | fell fretting them into fringes of colour, and reflecting
1291 I, II | the south, and towards the frontiers of Upper Canada, on Lakes
1292 I, XVII | community were attacked by frost-bite, but the parts affected
1293 I, III | was so slightly that the frost-work on the windows would not
1294 I, I | and coating the already frosted window panes with fresh
1295 I, XIX | we may so express it, a frosty ring about them, peculiarly
1296 II, IV | few biscuits, formed their frugal supper.~The meal was quickly
1297 I, XV | Antarctic circle, in Tierra del Fuego, and Australasia. They are
1298 I, XII | situations, and find out if it fulfilled the conditions imposed by
1299 I, XII | still further for a spot fulfilling the conditions imposed by
1300 II, IX | come along the coast, in fulfilment of the promise she had made
1301 I, XIX | There were six of them-four full-grown, and two children. Although
1302 I, XV | on foot-the sledges being full-to return to the fort. There
1303 II, IV | the cape, were in their fullest beauty at this time of year,
1304 I, XVII | countless radiant orbs, and fuming with rage when fogs or clouds
1305 II, VI | some touchwood [Footnote: A fungus used as tinder (Polyporous
1306 I, XVIII| his cabin, fretting and funning at the storm which prevented
1307 I, XV | with very short reddish fur-kept guard over the herd.~Great
1308 I, XVI | ours, when the St Louis fur-traders have established their projected
1309 I, VII | soldiers of the different fur-trading companies; but they mostly
1310 I, XIV | It did not take long to furnish the new abode. A camp-bed
1311 I, XII | Washburn Bay, and reached the furthest point of a little lake,
1312 II, VII | and it was only after many futile efforts that they managed
1313 II, XVII | up wonderfully, and the gaiety natural to them all, which
1314 I, VII | human nature, and greed of gain will always carry a man
1315 I, XVI | cloth trousers, leather gaiters, deerskin mocassins, and
1316 I, XIII | against the violence of the gales. Meanwhile the house was
1317 I, V | Mrs Joliffe. Perhaps the gallant Corporal had too often drunk
1318 I, XVIII| work, part with reading and games. Garments had to be made
1319 II, XIII | the western edge of this gap, in the hope of coming to
1320 II, IV | I have heard of hanging gardens. Perhaps some day floating
1321 I, XV | pressure of subterranean gases, it will most likely be
1322 II, VII | they reached the postern gates, and set out [beween] between
1323 II, X | sea, but they continued to gather in large numbers round the
1324 II, XIX | was already in the sign of Gemini, would most likely have
1325 I, XIII | the cooking which would generate damp, might be all done
1326 I, XIII | ventilation; and the moisture, generated in the air, freezes readily,
1327 I, X | Company did not adopt more generous views, and send out some
1328 I, XXI | would be burnt, and the genial warmth of the stove would
1329 II, VII | enough to do. The young gentleman had ridden upon his playmate’
1330 I, XXI | the head carpenter, “these gentlemen can’t get in without our
1331 I, XVI | obtained by Hobson were of the genus peculiar to North America,
1332 II, XIX | Matthew, Nunivak, St Paul, George island, &c. The wandering
1333 I, XXIII| total for the north-east of Germany, the south of Russia, and
1334 I, V | delighted him. He shouted, he gesticulated, and flourished his long
1335 I, XIX | society.~This significant gesture did not escape any one,
1336 II, X | said Long, “and the ice gets thicker every day. The barometer,
1337 II, XXI | and,” he added, with a ghastly attempt at a smile, “I don’
1338 I, VII | factories. No human footprints gladdened the eyes of the travellers,
1339 I, XIII | small panes of the latter glazed with isinglass, which, though
1340 I, XVII | walk in them, and could glide about over the snow as rapidly
1341 I, XVI | trees, or shot them as they glided through the branches.~Martens,
1342 I, XXIII| the disc of the moon was gliding away from that of the sun
1343 I, XVIII| few faint twilight rays glimmered upon the southern horizon.
1344 I, XX | background reflecting the glimmering colours like so many glowing
1345 I, IX | Now and then momentary glimpses were obtained through the
1346 II, XV | seemed as if by a kind of glissade the chain of icebergs had
1347 I, XIX | said Marbre, whose eyes glistened with delight.~“Well,” remarked
1348 II, XV | clearly defined, and the glistening surface was tinged with
1349 II, XIV | his lips, and even on the globes of his eyes. Two days later
1350 II, XX | Thomas Black, who was still gloomily indifferent to all that
1351 I, V | storms break over us, and the glories of the Aurora Borealis and
1352 I, XVI | the others was also long, glossy, and silky, but of a reddish
1353 I, XX | The western horizon still glowed with the reflection of the
1354 I, XIV | greatly resembled the American glutton, being strongly built, with
1355 I, IV | islands, the granite and gneiss of which they are formed
1356 II, III | to think I am an unlucky godmother for newly-discovered places.”~
1357 II, XXIV | Kalumah and Mrs Barnett’s godson, Michael Mac-Nab.~Six days
1358 I, XI | which is worth its weight in gold. Sabine and Mac-Nab might
1359 I, XX | ground became dashed with golden tints, the hummocks on the
1360 I, X | and a canoe, or even a good-sized boat, might easily have
1361 II, XIX | set to work with a hearty good-will, and in a few days a shelter
1362 I, XIX | hosts; but before saying goodbye, the young girl invited
1363 I, VII | party was then in a narrow gorge between huge icebergs, over
1364 I, VIII | with their chief, wearing gorgeous plumes, hastened to meet
1365 I, XVI | to say,” he said at last, gracefully toying with his gun, “that
1366 I, I | asked Joliffe, who had a gracious word for every body.~Some
1367 I, XII | Thomas Black read on the graduated limbs the value of the angles
1368 I, XIII | good; and though many a grampus and whale passed by in the
1369 II, V | as richly attired as the grandest princesses, or the most
1370 I, XV | ten miles was a chain of granitic hills, of conical form,
1371 I, II | Craventy had given her a graphic sketch of the situation,
1372 I, XIX | and after a few words of grateful acknowledgment from Kalumah,
1373 I, VII | an ermine tippet must be gratified !”~“I am afraid so,” said
1374 I, IV | lobes, a sort of charr or grayling called “ blue fish,” and
1375 I, XXIII| disc of the moon seemed to graze that of the sun. But the
1376 II, V | thirty head in the herd which grazed near the fort, and a supply
1377 I, XIX | fetid oil of a lamp, of greasy garments, and the flesh
1378 I, VII | Such is human nature, and greed of gain will always carry
1379 I, VIII | Esquimaux, who, like the Greenlanders, are the true children of
1380 I, XVII | were of a dull, gloomy, greyish hue, and on the northern
1381 I, XVI | of close short hair of a greyish-white colour.~The hunters returned
1382 II, VI | who would generally have grieved over the destruction around
1383 I, XIII | must collect the shells, grind them, burn them, and make
1384 I, I | planks cracked, the beams groaned. A stranger less accustomed
1385 I, XXI | of hot meat and tea. Hot grog was served out, and the
1386 I, IX | cordage no longer acted in the grooves of the pulleys, and the
1387 II, XV | Sabine quickly dug out a grotto in the ice with their chisels,
1388 I, XXII | lake and found their fears groundless. Its waters were still sweet.~
1389 I, XIV | lagoon, large flocks of grouse congregated round the clumps
1390 II, VI | of a kind which did not grow on Victoria Island. Christopher
1391 I, IX | this awful gulf, which, growing deeper and blacker every
1392 I, XIX | circumstance, as ominous growlings were heard, the nature of
1393 I, XIV | species of poplar which grows to a great height and shoots
1394 II, I | after all, what good would grumbling have done? Recriminations
1395 I, XVII | exported, fetching half a guinea a piece.~During these excursions,
1396 II, VII | well acquainted with the habits of those who were likely
1397 I, I | less accustomed than the habitués of the fort to the war of
1398 I, XXI | his subject, for he had had- many an encounter with these
1399 II, III | of rain fell, and large hailstones rattled on the roof, whilst
1400 I, I | the Pfeiffers, Tinnis, and Haimaires of Hull, has been several
1401 I, XIX | reindeer-venison, and drinking half-a-pint of rum, in which the children
1402 I, III | waded through it, although half-blinded by the cutting sleet, and
1403 I, XXI | companions without a word. His half-condensed breath shrouded his face
1404 II, XII | the melancholy scene. The half-darkness and the refraction combined
1405 II, X | traveller to venture across the half-liquid, half-solid masses. It was
1406 II, XVII | wait till the broken and half-melted ice should allow of the
1407 I, XV | constructed, in the shape of a half-moon, fenced with tall pointed
1408 II, X | across the half-liquid, half-solid masses. It was easy to see
1409 I, X | river is only a degree and a half-that is to say, about eighty-five
1410 I, VII | and masses of granite or half-thawed icebergs blocked up the
1411 I, III | of 1715 by Lonville and Halley, by Maraldi in 1724, by
1412 I, IX | Norman’s knife and cut the halliard like a harp-string; but
1413 I, IX | leave the helm, and the halliards being entangled at the top
1414 I, XIII | between the outer and inner halls a too sudden change of temperature
1415 II, IV | Hobson returned to the halting-place little cheered by his discoveries,
1416 I, XI | were traversed at a time; halts were made at every angle
1417 I, I | corned beef that of the ham and stuffed veal of the
1418 I, XIII | planes, hand-saws, mallets, hammers, chisels, &c. &c. Rae was
1419 I, XIII | centre-bits, adzes, planes, hand-saws, mallets, hammers, chisels, &
1420 I, V | this sledge to pick up a handful of snow? You talk to me
1421 I, V | beauty, of our Creator’s handiwork !”~Thus spoke Mrs Paulina
1422 II, IX | Madge bound it up with her handkerchief, and the bleeding soon ceased.~
1423 II, XV | had become quite expert in handling the sextant, assisted him,
1424 I, XVII | several couples of them, handsome birds, four or five feet
1425 II, IV | If I hadn’t been able to hang on by my knife, I should
1426 I, XX | low-as of course sometimes happened-fell to 15° Fahrenheit. The men
1427 I, III | bowl of hot punch.~Very happily for Thomas Black, however,
1428 I, II | an incident cut short his harangue.~Corporal Joliffe announced
1429 II, XII | them, en route, if they harassed or impeded his march. No
1430 II, XXIII| could they be? Could they harden the ice, which was melting
1431 I, XII | to the north with greater hardihood than any others. They lived
1432 I, XIX | his trap, was the extreme hardness of the ground to be dug
1433 II, X | the destination of these harmless creatures could do nobody
1434 II, XIII | Borealis. The dogs were harnessed to the sledges, and three
1435 I, IX | cut the halliard like a harp-string; but the wet cordage no
1436 I, XIII | probably flying from the harpoons of the Behring Strait fishermen
1437 I, XI | eagles, huge birds with a harsh screeching cry; fishing
1438 I, XXIII| well stocked with game, the harvest of furs had surpassed his
1439 I, XVI | as when it was used for hats, and fetched £16 per kilogramme (
1440 II, III | fox was taken by Captain Hatteras during his voyage of discovery,
1441 II, I | maintained a gloomy, even haughty silence.~“Poor Mr Black,”
1442 I, IX | hurriedly struggling to haul down his sail.~Mrs Barnett
1443 I, XIX | difficulty that the body was hauled up. It was a huge creature,
1444 I, VIII | two feet high-a kind of hawk with a grey body, blue beak
1445 I, II | headquarters, ventured on hazardous but most lucrative expeditions.
1446 I, V | shrews no bigger than a hazel-nut ventured from their holes,
1447 II, XVIII| in it”——~“No!” cried the head-carpenter with earnest conviction, “
1448 I, I | and mantles of fur, with a head-dross of eagle’s feathers spread
1449 II, VII | Russian America, and the head-quarters of the Russian Fur Company,
1450 II, XIV | Mac-Nab was taken ill—severe headache, great thirst and alternations
1451 II, XVII | the large room, and the healths of Mrs Barnett and of Lieutenant
1452 II, XVII | Mac-Nab, pointing to the heap of sand, earth, and ice,
1453 I, XI | limits of the camp, and heaps of cinders, the extinct
1454 I, XXI | A dreadful noise was now heard-growling, stamping of feet, and tearing
1455 II, XVII | cried the Lieutenant in heart-rending tones.~“There!” replied
1456 I, IX | despairing effort he uttered a heartrending cry and disappeared beneath
1457 II, XII | notice of them, it walked heavily on towards Cape Michael,
1458 I, XV | it hard work to drag the heavily-laden sledges over the rough ground.
1459 II, IV | slumber, its bosom slightly heaving with the swell, which died
1460 I, XVIII| the Corporal always at her heels, presided in the kitchen.~
1461 II, V | was rather larger than St Helena, and its area was about
1462 II, XX | would be left floating helplessly on the waves.~Yes! Kellet
1463 I, XVIII| Pole star. Although in both hemispheres there are in reality but
1464 I, V | but it was decided that henceforth the reins of the dogs, like
1465 I, VIII | this plant was called the “ herb of incense “ on account
1466 II, XXIII| moon, and Hobson, whose heroic courage did not even now
1467 I, XXI | sufferings with the greatest heroism, and Mrs Mac-Nab pressed
1468 II, X | no return.~Hobson did not hide this new danger from those
1469 I, VIII | strutted ospreys two feet high-a kind of hawk with a grey
1470 I, IV | Sea. They were all brave, high-spirited fellows, who had taken service
1471 II, VIII | half-a-mile beyond the former high-water line, and the thickness
1472 II, II | vast ice-field, and it was highly probable that it would drift
1473 I, VIII | herbs, the tree-crowned hill-tops, were all alike frequented
1474 I, XVII | crevasses, mountains and hillocks, tossed and distorted like
1475 I, VIII | difficult to cross, being hilly and intersected by streams,
1476 I, IX | for such a delay, would hinder our projects very much.
1477 I, XVIII| had to be taken off its hinges, and the hard mass of snow
1478 II, I | was, in short, nothing to hint to the Lieutenant and his
1479 I, I | supplied the want of the hired musicians of the European
1480 I, V | unrolled with an ominous hiss, and rebounding, twisted
1481 II, III | remember.”~“Well,” added Hobsou, “I know now why they shook
1482 II, II | island. Having no sail to hoist, as in a boat, we cannot
1483 II, XXIII| strong pole for a yard, was hoisted on the mast This sail, or
1484 I, XX | and the workmen, who had a holiday in honour of the day, afterwards
1485 I, I | an unknown corner of New Holland, from Swan Bay to the Gulf
1486 II, XIII | encampment was to be formed by hollowing out snow-houses in the Esquimaux
1487 I, IX | weight was flung into the hollows of the waves it seemed as
1488 II, IV | bright with stars, and the holy influence of the night could
1489 I, XVI | therefore to dive when they go home-an admirable arrangement for
1490 I, XX | Christmas Day, the day of home-gatherings so dear to the heart of
1491 II, XIX | construct some shelter for the homeless inhabitants of the island.
1492 I, I | has been several times honourably mentioned at the meetings
1493 I, XIX | building.~They removed their hoods, and it became possible
1494 I, XI | they have a small nail-like hoof with a convex surface. Large
1495 I, XVII | of the whistling swan or hooper, one of the finest species
1496 I, XVII | about the same size as the hoopers, but have black feet and
1497 I, XXI | the state of affairs in as hopeful a tone as he could assume.~“
1498 II, V | when their situation was so hopeless that it could not be concealed.
1499 II, II | Hope—the object of so many hopes, and to lose the benefit
1500 I, XIV | its eyes were small and horny, and it was armed with curved
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