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Part, Chapter
1501 I, XXI | violently against it, and a horrible growl was heard.~“Help!”
1502 I, V | and the sledge, and were horribly bruised and shaken. But
1503 I, XIV | formidable jaws.~“What is this horrid creature?” inquired Mrs
1504 I, XVIII| thoroughly inured to the horrors of these wild rugged climates
1505 I, XVI | for the collars of draught horses, and the hair for making
1506 I, XVII | were on their way to a more hospitable zone, where they could find
1507 II, XXIV | breaking-up of the ice. They were hospitably received by some Aleutian
1508 I, XXIII| rivals who are so evidently hostile to your Company?”~“Madam,
1509 I, XIV | inroads of wild animals or the hostilities of the natives. The Lieutenant
1510 II, XXI | forwards, showing no more hostility to the quadrupeds than to
1511 II, VIII | hours later a calculation of hour-angles gave him the longitude.~
1512 I, XIII | material; and every part of the house-outside and inside walls, flooring,
1513 I, XVI | were warmly and comfortably housed, and a huge wooden shed
1514 I, XVI | is the residence of the householder and his family.”~“There
1515 II, XVII | burst from the lips of the houseless outcasts.~“And the others,
1516 I, VII | Esquimaux hut or Indian hovel in which to lay their heads.~“
1517 II, VII | some protection, the wind howled fearfully as it bent and
1518 II, XIV | listened for a moment to the howlings of the dogs and the uneasy
1519 I, I | were really enormous. The hubbub of conversation increased.
1520 II, XIV | water, they rush upon it, hug it to death in their paws,
1521 I, X | else to fulfil this duty of humanity.”~“I agree with you, madam;
1522 II, X | after all I am` but its humble agent.”~“It will say,” cried
1523 I, XVIII| of every precaution, the humidity penetrated into the house,
1524 I, I | was pleasant to hear him humming. He would have made a better
1525 II, X | dragged along with it.~For the hundredth time the Lieutenant and
1526 I, I | that the stove consumed a hundredweight of coal on this memorable
1527 I, I | The captain enjoying the hurly burly, and pleased to see
1528 I, V | the arm of her imprudent husband.~“I have heard tell,” resumed
1529 II, V | were of course carefully husbanded. There still remained plenty
1530 I, XIV | and Mrs Rae, with their husbands, occupied the other dormitories.
1531 I, XXIII| ones under their wings. The hush of eventide fell upon all
1532 I, I | secluded lives, in these hyberborean regions, was joyfully welcomed
1533 I, I | with a hundred arms and Hydra with a hundred heads, well
1534 II, II | the chart, and unknown to hydrographers, which was evidently carrying
1535 I, XII | I don’t think any other hypotheses at all likely,” replied
1536 II, XXII | Kellet burst into a roar of hysterical laughter, and flinging himself
1537 I, XVII | hidden by an endless chain of ice-bergs, broken into countless rugged
1538 I, XVII | appearance which whalers call ice-blink, and which is the result
1539 II, XV | was passed as before in an ice-cavern, and the route resumed at
1540 I, XVIII| through the small prismatic ice-crystals floating in the atmosphere.
1541 II, XXII | approach of icebergs and ice-floes; they look upon them as
1542 II, XV | sparkling crystals, and delicate ice-flowers. No cliff, however strangely
1543 II, XV | advantageously replaced many an ice-master or pilot whose business
1544 I, XVII | glaciers and glittering ice-peaks with snowy ramparts and
1545 I, XVII | distinguishable from the shining ice-truly there was enough to interest
1546 II, XV | and lit up the glittering ice-walls on either side.~Mrs Barnett
1547 I, XV | Kamtchatka, Russian America, and Iceland, as well as in the Antarctic
1548 I, XIII | collected of calcareous shells identical with those found in the
1549 I, XIX | was acquainted with that idiom, and every one started when
1550 I, XVIII| consequently became the idol of the rough soldiers, who
1551 I, XIX | These snow-houses, called igloos in the language of the Esquimaux,
1552 II, VI | used as tinder (Polyporous igniarius).] with you, so that we
1553 I, XIX | they think the situation ill-chosen? In spite of all his endeavours,
1554 I, XXI | the brave man’s hand with ill-concealed emotion; and the rest of
1555 II, XII | pointed to a huge object, of ill-defined dimensions, moving about
1556 I, XVIII| together perfectly, and neither ill-humour nor ennui marred the contentment
1557 I, XXIII| disposed to play him some ill-natured trick.~It was very fine
1558 II, XIII | fancied he noticed certain ill-omened tremblings on the spot he
1559 I, XX | precaution, damp crept into the ill-ventilated rooms, and layers of ice,
1560 I, I | ceiling, and sufficiently illuminated the misty atmosphere of
1561 II, XVII | entirely disappeared.~Yes, the illustrious lady traveller, Madge, Kalumah,
1562 II, IX | excited imagination rose the images of her friends. She saw
1563 I, XVIII| were so expressive that imaginary persons seemed to live when
1564 II, V | that timber might fail him, imagining, as he did, Victoria Island
1565 I, XV | with huge boulders deeply imbedded in the soil, and there were
1566 I, I | Craventy’s “fire-water” imbibed by the Indians had an opposite
1567 I, XX | excitement was not lessened after imbibing some of the burning liquid.~
1568 I, XIX | entered the narrow tunnel in imitation of her guide. Lieutenant
1569 II, IV | wandering island was not immersed more than five feet.~This
1570 I, II | and, in a certain sense, immoral system, which provoked the
1571 II, I | thought firm ground with an immovable foundation, is nothing more
1572 I, XI | suffered for the enforced immunity of the quadrupeds. White-headed
1573 II, XX | fatality, or rather the immutable law, by which the currents
1574 II, VII | explorers was converted into impalpable mist, so that for about
1575 I, IX | LAKE.~The old sailor was impatiently awaiting the return of the
1576 II, VI | isthmus; it was, therefore, imperative to ascertain what was going
1577 I, XVIII| anxious. It was becoming imperatively necessary to renew the air
1578 II, I | though rapid, had been imperceptible.~Although Hobson had no
1579 I, XIII | country afforded; and its imperfections really mattered little,
1580 I, IV | miles through a desert and imperfectly-known country.~With this project
1581 I, XXII | your moral courage and imperturbable good temper. You have done
1582 I, VI | riveted to one another. What implacable rage !” exclaimed Mrs Barnett.~“
1583 I, XIX | loss to interpret. They implied the existence of a certain
1584 I, XIV | as their zoological name implies, to the partridge family,
1585 I, XVII | hours and the actual winter, implying entire confinement within
1586 I, VI | America, and the United States imported a great many; but clearings
1587 II, XIII | them that the ice-field was impracticable, adding—~“Perhaps one man
1588 I, XX | distance outside the air was impregnated with the fetid odour of
1589 II, VIII | along the snow, and the impression of a hand.~“It is the hand
1590 I, V | in spring is perhaps more impressive in the Arctic regions than
1591 I, XVII | defensive, and it was not improbable that, urged on by hunger,
1592 I, XV | detached forts (a great improvement upon the tactics of Vauban
1593 II, VI | confinement. They went on improving the inside of the various
1594 I, II | fur trade received a new impulse. English traders became
1595 I, XIX | was necessary to settle in-doors again, and resume domestic
1596 II, VIII | long and fixedly at the inanimate body. It was the young Esquimaux
1597 I, IV | frozen district beyond, not inaptly called the “Cursed Land.”
1598 I, VIII | was called the “ herb of incense “ on account of the fragrance
1599 II, XIX | shelter was provided from the inclemencies of the fickle weather.~Search
1600 II, VIII | body over, and showed no inclination of tearing it with its dreadful
1601 I, XX | the angles and varying inclinations on which they fell fretting
1602 I, XII | sextants upon it. By means of inclined mirrors attached to the
1603 I, XXIII| depression increased, for the inconstant weather seemed more and
1604 I, I | thought little of this slight inconvenience; the stove warmed them,
1605 II, IV | liquids, and as the cold increases, the thickness of the crust
1606 II, VII | and believe that we shall incur no unnecessary risk.”~“But,”
1607 I, X | was unknown, and we are indebted for its discovery to the
1608 I, XIV | any danger. The men worked indefatigably, and it seemed likely that
1609 I, X | were drawn onwards by an indefinable attraction; the glory of
1610 I, VIII | estuaries which irregularly indent the coast of North America.
1611 II, III | Walruses’ Bay, formed by an indentation of the firm ground, had
1612 I, IV | Company, fought for the independence of their native land, and
1613 I, XII | are a good many perfectly independent private companies, mostly
1614 I, IV | airpumps for ventilation, an India-rubber boat, only inflated when
1615 II, XV | 21st March, but there were indications of the approaching change
1616 I, XX | Mrs Barnett.~Thomas Black indignantly protested against this assertion.
1617 I, XI | could the light-hearted individual be who had been impelled
1618 I, XVII | Although not dangerous individually, these carnivorous beasts
1619 II, XXII | the shed, and could not be induced to leave it. The martens,
1620 I, II | Lieutenant at work. But what induces the Company to construct
1621 I, XVI | rodent family, nearly as industrious as the beaver, largely contributed
1622 II, VII | women were stitching away industriously, and Mrs Paulina Barnett
1623 I, III | the courier had taken an inert mass from the sledge, a
1624 I, II | the very existence of the infant Company.~The conquest of
1625 II, II | A.M., so as to be able to infer from the two altitudes obtained
1626 I, I | spirits thus freely circulated inflamed the imagination of the Europeans,
1627 I, VI | the heat of the Polar sun inflames their blood-another deplorable
1628 I, IV | India-rubber boat, only inflated when required, &c., &c.~
1629 I, IV | authority which could even inflict death. The governors of
1630 I, I | not tolerate the slightest infraction of discipline, and mercilessly
1631 I, XIII | could; and the sledges were ingeniously utilised to form a provisional
1632 I, XIII | carbonate which is so large an ingredient of these shells, and thus
1633 I, XV | the Atlantic have not free ingress, the straits are too narrow
1634 I, VII | estimated that there is but one inhabitant to every ten square miles.
1635 I, II | shrank from no act, however iniquitous, if its interests were at
1636 II, XIV | said the Lieutenant, “don’t injure him, my good fellows,” he
1637 I, VI | neither damp nor dryness injures it. The Indians are therefore
1638 I, XVIII| tumbles, but no serious injuries.~It is needless to state
1639 I, IV | economise these spirits, so injurious to the health in cold latitudes,
1640 II, XIII | Hobson how unexpected and inopportune his proposal appeared. How
1641 II, X | no symptoms of winter in inorganic nature, the temperature
1642 I, III | bid you welcome. But may I inquire what brings you to Fort
1643 I, III | but could not refrain from inquiring why he had been in such
1644 I, XIV | a protection against the inroads of wild animals or the hostilities
1645 II, XXIII| had already given signs of insanity, came to Mrs Barnett and
1646 I, I | above this display was an inscription in brilliantly-coloured
1647 I, XVII | find the aquatic plants and insects they required for food,
1648 I, VI | of rams, and seemed to be inseparably glued together.~In fact,
1649 I, IX | lesser billows sinking into insignificance before it. It gained upon
1650 II, XIV | doubtless satisfied with his inspection, he gave a hearty growl,
1651 II, XIX | rendered less savage by their instinctive knowledge of a common danger,
1652 I, XVIII| alike to give and receive instruction; she combined the charm
1653 I, IV | further the enterprise. The instructions he had received from the
1654 II, IV | wandering island, with a solid insubmersible foundation, would really
1655 I, VII | pride that she received the intelligence.~“You have already passed
1656 I, VIII | addressed them in fairly intelligible English.~These Hare Indians,
1657 I, XVI | remainder of the fine weather, intending to set traps when the snow
1658 II, XIV | he came.”~“But suppose he intends coming into the enceinte?”
1659 I, XIV | that during the weeks of intensest cold there would be no possibility
1660 I, XX | forgotten in the universal interchange of good wishes amongst the
1661 I, I | that they are in constant intercourse with the traders, and supply
1662 II, X | solitudes of the Arctic Ocean, interdicted to the human race, from
1663 II, I | one fact in which he was interested: on the day fixed, at the
1664 I, X | replied Hobson; “and its interference was severely censured by
1665 I, XVI | collection of upright stakes interlaced with branches and roots,
1666 I, XII | Indian tribes, sometimes intermarrying with them. The natives called
1667 I, XIX | classed the Esquimaux as an “ intermediate species “ between roan and
1668 I, XVI | Canadian, “let us suffer this international question to remain in abeyance
1669 I, XIX | have been at no loss to interpret. They implied the existence
1670 II, XII | had all been tokens easily interpreted by the inhabitants of Fort
1671 II, V | then “——~“Beg pardon for interrupting you, sir,” said Marbre; “
1672 I, XIX | which was sung to a sad air, interspersed with long pauses, and filled
1673 I, XIII | insufficient to close the interstices as hermetically as was necessary,
1674 I, XIV | all possible use of the interval; and as soon as the principal
1675 I, XXIII| melancholy and significant intonation of the word easy.~“Lieutenant
1676 I, V | tiny-pointed tails. It was intoxicating once more to breathe the
1677 I, I | two women, whom we shall introduce when we have enumerated
1678 II, III | gazed inquiringly at the intruders. They seemed to understand
1679 II, XIV | two drops to the little invalid every day. The greatest
1680 II, XV | enumerate. But the icebergs invariably drift towards the Pacific,
1681 II, IV | day floating parks will be invented which will carry us all
1682 I, VII | Australia as the field for their investigations. Such were Barth, Burton,
1683 II, III | the Enterprise and the Investigator in the Polar seas. He caught
1684 I, XIII | insurmountable, when the invincible Lieutenant suggested that
1685 I, I | accepted Captain Craventy’s invitation. They were not, however,
1686 II, XII | Barnett could not control an involuntary shudder. Soul and body alike
1687 I, II | across the Indian territories involves a vast expenditure of time
1688 I, I | father, Major Hobson, an Irishman from Dublin, who had now
1689 I, XVIII| not fail to be somewhat irksome to strong men, soldiers
1690 II, VII | other, and leaning on their iron-bound staffs, they reached the
1691 I, XIII | the crevices with calking- irons and a hammer, filling up
1692 II, XV | Marbre, struck dumb by this irrefutable argument, crossed his arms
1693 I, VIII | numerous estuaries which irregularly indent the coast of North
1694 I, IV | and as a result of this irresponsible power, they often realised
1695 I, XVI | the romances of Washington Irving, whose competition Hobson
1696 I, XIV | another worthy disciple of Isaak Walton was perhaps his only
1697 I, XIII | of the latter glazed with isinglass, which, though rough, yellow,
1698 II, I | men that they had become islanders. The position of the new
1699 I, XV | Mayen’s Land, the Aleutian Isles, Kamtchatka, Russian America,
1700 I, IV | only to remember that the isothermal lines, or belts of equal
1701 II, VI | none the less. The point at issue was simply:—Would the island
1702 I, XIV | or rocky caves, whence it issues at night and creates great
1703 I, XX | melted at the fire, for it- would have been dangerous
1704 I, XXIII| regions as to account for it-but no, such an idea could not
1705 I, IV | rise from it or flow into it-the Mackenzie, the Athabasca, &
1706 I, XI | all that, their fingers itched when they came within shot-range
1707 I, XIV | months, and forms a large item in the Company’s exports.~
1708 II, XV | be a danger that the cape itself-which was but a kind of iceberg
1709 I, VII | gladly go to set up the Union Jack at the North Pole. But that
1710 I, XV | they are to be found in Jan Mayen’s Land, the Aleutian
1711 I, IX | we are sinking !” cried Jasper Hobson.~He was right. The
1712 II, XV | a delicately-shaded hue. Jasper-like ribbons of green and blue
1713 I, XV | canine teeth of the upper jaw curved down-wards are much
1714 I, XIV | curved claws and formidable jaws.~“What is this horrid creature?”
1715 I, XI | crows, a kind of mocking jay of extreme ugliness; eider
1716 I, XV | clumsy and awkward, moving in jerks or with creeping motions
1717 II, XV | cutter, of a mainsail and a jib carried on a single mast.
1718 II, VI | other, was always busy at a job in some corner or another,
1719 II, XIX | Lieutenant Hobson. Instead of joining the timbers and planks together
1720 I, IX | at the scene of the wreck joints in time. Hobson and Mrs
1721 II, XIV | began to fear he had let the joke go too far.~But Kalumah
1722 II, II | showed no fear; she even joked the Lieutenant about his
1723 I, I | compliments paid to the Joliffes that evening, but they deserved
1724 I, VI | rocky soil caused constant jolting of the sledges, and the
1725 I, I | hyberborean regions, was joyfully welcomed by all the exiles,
1726 II, IV | necessarily be ephemeral. He judged, therefore, that it would
1727 II, V | although he cut his wood judiciously; for he never dreamt that
1728 I, XXIII| last the great day-the 18th July-dawned. According to the calculations
1729 I, XI | he said.~“Nor by a person jumping,” added Mrs Barnett; “for
1730 II, III | of earth at the point of junction increasing, as it probably
1731 II, VII | Russian Fur Company, whose jurisdiction once extended over the whole
1732 II, V | however, sufficient to justify a hope that it would resist
1733 I, XX | Lieutenant Hobson could justly congratulate himself on
1734 I, VI | the opening of an immense kaleidoscope, or are you already weary
1735 I, VII | Mackenzie, Franklin, Penny, Kane, Parry, Rae, &c., preceded
1736 I, IX | Mrs Barnett, and the three kayaks, skilfully managed with
1737 I, V | of Parry, Ross, Mc’Clure, Kean, Morton, and others. But
1738 II, X | inch of water beneath their keels. In my opinion there is
1739 I, V | plumage so white that the keenest sight could not distinguish
1740 II, XXI | The animals seemed more keenly alive than ever to approaching
1741 I, VI | not have surpassed them in keenness of sight, precision of aim,
1742 I, XIII | an Arctic winter, it also keeps it from getting out.~The
1743 I, III | all nations—Airy, Arago, Keytal, Langier, Mauvais, Otto,
1744 I, XVI | their work, and succeeded in killing more than sixty of them.
1745 I, XVI | hats, and fetched £16 per kilogramme (rather more than 2 lb.);
1746 I, XVI | times that of any other kind-arises from its superior softness,
1747 I, XVI | with so much courtesy and kindliness of manner, that it would
1748 I, XX | encouraged others by her kindness, brightness, and sympathy.
1749 I, X | 1834, when he discovered King William’s Land, where Franklin
1750 II, XIX | rolled down her cheeks.~Madge kissed and caressed her, and tried
1751 I, XXII | at his subordinate with knitted brows. It had not occurred
1752 I, X | bounded on the north by Cape Krusenstein, and from it the coast juts
1753 II, XIX | upon the microscopic anima[l]culae which form their principal
1754 I, XVI | skins were warehoused and labelled as “parchments” or “young
1755 I, VII | dogs of his sledge were laboriously preparing to start.~Unfortunately,
1756 I, XV | set in and interrupted the labours of the explorers, the greatest
1757 I, IV | Voyage of Captain Robert Lade,” on what terms exchanges
1758 I, VII | the Arctic Ocean. Lakes, lagoons, and numerous pools are
1759 I, XIV | and from the fact of their lairs being close at hand, they
1760 II, I | console Thomas Black, who was lamenting his disappointment and tearing
1761 I, XIX | smell of the fetid oil of a lamp, of greasy garments, and
1762 II, XVII | nothing could prevent their landing on one side or the other
1763 II, III | willow or birch to serve as landmarks for the future, especially
1764 II, IV | little bank, produced by a landslip, enabled him to step down
1765 I, III | nations—Airy, Arago, Keytal, Langier, Mauvais, Otto, Struve,
1766 I, XVII | had become a pale disc, languidly running its allotted course
1767 I, XIV | autumn. These trees and larches were, however, few and sickly
1768 I, IX | squall redoubled its fury, lashing the crests of the waves
1769 II, X | the end of November at the latest,” replied Hobson, “but if
1770 I, XXII | Reliance in six weeks at the latest-that is to say, towards the end
1771 I, XVI | their hands. The fur of the latter-of a lustrous black dotted
1772 II, VI | had flung them upon the laud, no matter where. That which
1773 I, XIII | its success, only adding laughingly, that she hoped the chimneys
1774 II, XXII | into a roar of hysterical laughter, and flinging himself on
1775 I, XX | he was, in fact, rather lavish of it in his anxiety to
1776 I, XVI | kilogramme (rather more than 2 lb.); but it still commands
1777 II, XV | wait until our island has leached the narrowest part of Behring
1778 II, XII | all nature seemed to be in league against the luckless colonists.~
1779 I, XXII | upheaval, which made the house lean over towards the lake, and
1780 I, XVI | desperation to a flying leap, thinking thus to escape
1781 II, XIII | examination he had just made. They learnt that the obstacles in their
1782 I, X | brother-in-law, Long, completed the leave-taking,~Each pair got into the
1783 II, III | the little river. With no ledges to shelter them, and no
1784 I, XIV | turned out to be a wild leek, and yielded a good crop
1785 II, IX | the catastrophe. A kind of legend or tradition had been handed
1786 II, IX | belonged to the many northern legends relating to the creation.
1787 I, IV | blue fish,” and countless legions of tittamegs, the Coregonus
1788 I, IV | quantities of lime-juice, lemons, and other simple remedies
1789 II, XXIII| chance it afforded, and all lent a helping hand, even Kellet,
1790 I, IX | came the mighty wave, all lesser billows sinking into insignificance
1791 II, VII | themselves from this fatal lethargy, and a few mouthfuls of
1792 I, I | had given her a special letter of recommendation to Captain
1793 I, III | journey. He obtained urgent letters of recommendation to the
1794 I, XIII | Bite had been carefully levelled. The soil, a mixture of
1795 II, XIV | patients through scarlet lever, remembered that tincture
1796 I, I | Fort Chippeway and Fort Liard further south. A rare break
1797 II, VIII | quite sure that neither lib nor the Sergeant were mistaken.
1798 I, I | out slice after slice with liberal hands, yet there remained
1799 I, XXIII| which happened to be at liberty showed signs of uneasiness
1800 I, XVIII| of travels were the whole library of the fort; but they were
1801 I, II | On the 2nd May, 1670, a licence to trade in furs in the
1802 I, XI | ground was covered with the lichen to which they are so partial,
1803 II, XXI | water lake, they came to lick the blocks of ice. They
1804 I, XIX | tender heart the icicles lie chill.~Child of my dreams
1805 I, VI | 65° N. lat.,” replied the Lieutenant-”that is, if the men are
1806 II, VIII | smelt at every now and then, lifting it up and letting it fall
1807 I, XVI | reddish-brown, and that of the lynx, light-red with black spots; both are
1808 II, XXIII| and it was necessary to lighten it like a sinking vessel.
1809 II, XV | no one could spring more lightly forwards than she when her
1810 I, XV | lay in a supply of oil and lights, and accordingly an expedition
1811 II, XIII | There really seemed to be a likelihood that the temperature was
1812 I, IV | need.~Lieutenant Hobson likewise took several casks of rum
1813 I, XIII | able superintendence of lilac-Nab, a Scotchman from Stirling,
1814 I, XII | Black read on the graduated limbs the value of the angles
1815 I, XXI | loft, and being made of lime-bricks but imperfectly cemented
1816 I, XX | the use of lime-juice and lime-lozenges.~It would not do, however,
1817 II, XXII | make a reconaissance of his limited domain, and see if any part
1818 I, XII | little colony, as a fresh and limpid stream ran a few yards to
1819 II, X | it would be madness to linger till the spring should again
1820 I, XIX | Some human beings still lingered on the coast hunting morses
1821 I, XVII | guillemots, and puffins, lingering behind their fellows, still
1822 II, I | earthquake broke the connecting link, from the moment when the
1823 I, VII | the tiers of Thibet or the lions of Africa. In Torrid and
1824 II, XVIII| of joy burst from every lip, a cry of gratitude to Heaven
1825 I, II | forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors on Indian territory; and
1826 I, XXI | the danger of the anxious listeners was increased, or the reverse.
1827 II, XIX | bearings of the inland. It was listless now to think of quitting
1828 I, XX | was lighted only by the livid flames of the spirit, the
1829 I, XIII | done quite away from the living-rooms; the third, a large hall,
1830 I, XXI | safe in the shed, he was loading the first train with fuel.
1831 I, VII | Livingstone from the Bay of Loanga to the mouth of the Zambesi.
1832 I, IV | pounds. Pikes, voracious lobes, a sort of charr or grayling
1833 I, XVIII| to produce intense cold. Local and other causes largely
1834 II, XIX | variable, determine the exact locality where ice will melt; in
1835 II, XXI | people. Round it were large lockers for the provisions and water-casks,
1836 II, VIII | the head, and some long locks of brown hair were thrown
1837 I, VI | little way. This mode of locomotion suited the hunters, who
1838 I, III | touch of winter. Sergeant Loin soon returned, and he and
1839 I, XVI | part), was shown at the London Exhibition of 1851, and
1840 I, XXII | suffered much from their lone, confinement, and rushed
1841 II, XXIII| cast a glance of fierce longing at the sea, and passing
1842 I, IV | chronometer for determining the longitudes, a few maps, a few books,
1843 I, III | total eclipse of 1715 by Lonville and Halley, by Maraldi in
1844 I, I | windows, some of them mere loop-holes, were so encrusted with
1845 I, XXI | they would drill a few loopholes in the walls of the house,
1846 I, XVI | American writer; a blanket loosely arranged about his person,
1847 II, IX | her to life? Mrs Barnett loosened her clothes, and found that
1848 II, IV | of ice, and calling out loudly, although with the most
1849 I, VI | students and enthusiastic lovers of nature. Together they
1850 I, XX | which, when the fires got low-as of course sometimes happened-fell
1851 II, I | tide rose two feet beyond low-water mark, instead of the twenty
1852 I, XVIII| properly so-called when the lowness of the temperature is discussed.
1853 II, III | exclaimed the Sergeant, “it’s lucky for you we didn’t call it
1854 I, II | ventured on hazardous but most lucrative expeditions. The active
1855 I, XVII | many were the falls and ludicrous results of this optical
1856 II, XXII | islet.~At half-past two it luffed slightly, and bore away
1857 I, XXIII| eleven the discs of the two luminaries ought to be exactly opposite
1858 I, XII | world, watched the mighty luminary of day touch the edges of
1859 I, XVIII| encrusted over with thick lumps of ice, and resisted every
1860 II, VII | all the strength of his lungs.~“Here, here!” roared Long
1861 I, XIV | and how cunningly they lured it on to its destruction
1862 II, VII | The firs burnt with a lurid glare like a large torch.
1863 I, III | vigorous shampooing most lustily performed, more like the
1864 I, XXI | trap-door at a time, and this mace Hobson hesitate, and finally
1865 II, VI | were now all finished, and MacNab had completed the carcass
1866 II, XXII | rolled over and over like a madman.~Mrs Barnett turned and
1867 I, XXI | with their hatchets like madmen. Benches, tables, and partition
1868 I, XVI | America from the Straits of Magellan to the North Pole !”~“I
1869 I, XVII | scene followed another with magic rapidity. The ocean, which
1870 II, XII | of which has been greatly magnified by refraction.”~It was,
1871 II, XV | other, realised the full magnitude of the peril they would
1872 II, XV | like that of a cutter, of a mainsail and a jib carried on a single
1873 I, I | the Company.” His father, Major Hobson, an Irishman from
1874 I, I | would have made a better major-domo than a soldier; and he was
1875 II, II | forlorn hope, a desperate makeshift, and every one agreed with
1876 I, XIII | unhealthy causing grave maladies to those who sleep in them.~
1877 II, XIV | as to the nature of the malady. A rash came out all over
1878 I, VI | warmer season. The fierce males are easily distinguished
1879 I, XV | Some few of the larger males-creatures nearly four feet long, clothed
1880 II, XIV | was evident that he had malignant scarlatina, which would
1881 I, XIII | adzes, planes, hand-saws, mallets, hammers, chisels, &c. &
1882 I, XV | in which the. amphibious mammalia always indulge. The Lieutenant,
1883 II, VII | which collect the teeth of mammoths, these fossil elephants
1884 I, XVI | Indians.~The leader was a tall man-a fine specimen of his class-those
1885 I, III | Lonville and Halley, by Maraldi in 1724, by Antonio de’Ulloa
1886 II, XV | of day.~The little troop marched on, but they did not get
1887 I, XIX | shrouded the ice-fields. After marching for about an hour, the Lieutenant
1888 I, VIII | high prices in the Russian market. Russian traders, ready
1889 I, XVI | the Russian and English markets above all others, and that
1890 I, XVIII| neither ill-humour nor ennui marred the contentment of the little
1891 I, XXI | felt chilled to the very marrow of their bones; and when
1892 I, XVII | moderate height, a fox or a marten, for instance, which touched
1893 II, XX | to its present position, marvelling at the fatality, or rather
1894 I, XIII | in carpentry. They had no mason in the party; but none was
1895 I, XXI | the bears scratched at the masonry, whilst others leant against
1896 I, II | killed without mercy. These massacres were conducted in the most
1897 II, IV | thickets of pine and birch, massed a little behind the cape,
1898 I, XIII | by the Lieutenant and his master-carpenter, there were to be four compartments
1899 II, I | remedy for the misfortune, mastered his emotion by a strong
1900 II, XX | like a vessel with disabled masts and a broken screw.~No one
1901 I, II | lake, and the Corporal, match in hand, awaited the order
1902 I, XXI | thinking the forces unequally matched, would not risk the attempt;
1903 I, XIX | women, still young whose matted hair was adorned with the
1904 I, XIII | its imperfections really mattered little, as the windows were
1905 I, III | Arago, Keytal, Langier, Mauvais, Otto, Struve, Petit, Baily, &
1906 I, XV | they are to be found in Jan Mayen’s Land, the Aleutian Isles,
1907 I, XXI | to put off this desperate measure for a day or two, as it
1908 II, V | be of about thirty tons measurement, which would make it large
1909 I, III | minute observations or exact measurements and definitions were required,
1910 II, XV | scurvy grass, and other medicinal herbs.~We must here remark,
1911 I, XIX | were all returning from Melbourne Island, on the eastern coast
1912 I, XX | combined to add éclat to a mêlee of rays in which luminous
1913 I, XXI | darkness.~In the midst of the mêlée a terrible rumbling sound
1914 I, XVII | the 12th November a new member was born to the little colony.
1915 I, I | hundredweight of coal on this memorable evening, for the cold outside
1916 II, XIV | forming in fact part of the menagerie of the colony.~According
1917 I, XVIII| Garments had to be made and mended, arms to be kept bright
1918 II, XIII | the interminable crevasse, mentally cursing the mildness of
1919 I, V | resumed.~No incident worth mentioning occurred during the next
1920 I, II | Moreover, towards 1784 some merchants of Montreal combined to
1921 I, XV | in a couple of hours.~The merciful Lieutenant often ordered
1922 I, I | infraction of discipline, and mercilessly ordered men into confinement
1923 I, XX | became doubly severe. The mercurial thermometer was of course
1924 I, XII | moment when it would pass the meridian-in other words, it would be
1925 I, XII | streams, light-hearted and merry, adapting themselves to
1926 I, XVII | disappeared; the land was metamorphosed, a new country was springing
1927 II, II | anxious to complete his meteorological observations, and would
1928 I, XIX | Borealis were symptoms which a meteorologist would have been at no loss
1929 I, XIV | do everything in the most methodical manner, feeling confident
1930 I, II | Athapeskow, Winnipeg, Superior, Methye, Buffalo, and near the Colombia,
1931 I, XIX | rhythmical songs with a peculiar metre, and, if we may so express
1932 I, VIII | the shores of the Gulf of Mexico when winter sets in, only
1933 II, XIX | which came to feed upon the microscopic anima[l]culae which form
1934 I, XIX | rather nine hours before midday, Sergeant Long, on his return
1935 I, X | 1741 a certain Christopher Middleton, sent to explore these latitudes,
1936 II, XXI | flight—such as swans, &c, migrated towards the Aleutian Islands
1937 I, XXII | sighted the first swans migrating from the south, and uttering
1938 II, XIX | transferred as it was to milder latitudes. The little mosses
1939 I, XII | territory, scarcely two square miles-in fact it was rather a lagoon,
1940 I, XVIII| consistency of which resembled the milky transparent lunar rainbows
1941 I, XI | haunt the high latitudes by millions, and it would -be impossible
1942 II, IV | allowance for the weight of the mineral and vegetable layer above
1943 II, XXI | kind of Mediterranean in miniature—were greatly agitated. The
1944 I, XX | few degrees more and the minimum temperature at Fort Reliance
1945 II, IV | and was ready to begin mining in some other place. This
1946 I, XVI | the Canadian, “it is of minor importance, and we must
1947 II, XXIII| thanks to God for their miraculous deliverance.~
1948 I, XVII | strongly with the smooth mirror of the lake. Here and there
1949 I, V | fifth dog on the right is misbehaving himself;. I will correct
1950 I, II | employés, speculated on the misery of the Indians, robbed them
1951 I, XXIII| second winter need awake no misgivings. Why, then, was Lieutenant
1952 II, XXIII| They thought they must have misheard what he said.~“Well!” asked
1953 II, XV | so great as entirely to mislead travellers.”~“All right
1954 II, XXIV | thirty-six years. My friends, I missed the eclipse of 1860, but
1955 I, II | tracts of country between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean. It
1956 I, IX | waves.~It was, however, no mistake-he had heard voices. Three
1957 I, XIX | hood, boots, trousers, and mittens of the same material. They
1958 I, II | assistance, he was about to mix the punch. This news was
1959 I, XIII | carefully levelled. The soil, a mixture of fine earth and sand,
1960 I, IX | fallen, but - an ominous moaning was heard from the south
1961 I, XVIII| so as to form a kind of moat, the counterscarp of which
1962 I, I | straight nose, with its mobile nostrils. We must confess
1963 I, XVI | leather gaiters, deerskin mocassins, and a sash of checked woollen
1964 I, XI | ash-coloured crows, a kind of mocking jay of extreme ugliness;
1965 II, XIII | of November, the weather moderated. In a few hours the storm
1966 I, I | sofas, chairs, or other modern furniture, impeded the free
1967 II, III | means of judging of the modifications which had taken place since
1968 I, XXIII| Unless the earthquake had so modified the conformation of the
1969 I, VI | between the stones peeped the moist calices of tiny, almost
1970 I, XVII | Hobson would not have them molested, rightly judging that with
1971 I, VIII | seemed to convert them into molten silver of dazzling brightness.
1972 II, I | the whole matter from a monetary point of view, and was afraid
1973 I, XIV | have given the name of “monitor.” It is a kind of daylight
1974 I, II | wild animals, so that the monopoly enjoyed by the Hudson’s
1975 II, XII | into the forms of fabulous monsters. Birds passed overhead with
1976 I, XXI | close the door. In vain; the monstrous brute, throwing the whole
1977 I, XVII | curtains battered in, and monuments and columns overthrown;
1978 II, XVII | deserted plains in melancholy mood, pausing in his walk as
1979 II, XXI | the little lake, strongly moored to the shore.~It was certainly
1980 I, XIX | ice-field to breathe. When the morse appears, a rope with a running
1981 II, V | and get a fresh supply of morse-oil for burning, and Hobson
1982 I, I | bread and butter, and dainty morsels of corned beef that of the
1983 I, XVI | which fell to the ground mortally wounded.~“Hurrah! hurrah !”
1984 I, XVII | frost-bitten, when death or mortification would ensue if the suspended
1985 I, XV | in jerks or with creeping motions like huge caterpillars,
1986 II, XV | Kalumah did not explain her motives, but muttered as she went
1987 I, I | artistically shaped cardboard—the motto of the world-famous Hudson’
1988 I, XIII | make them into lime, then mould the lime into bricks, and
1989 II, XVIII| from the summit of the new mountain formed by the avalanche,
1990 I, X | and his loss was sincerely mourned. The intrepid and devoted
1991 I, XXI | his forehead, and looked mournfully at his silent companions
1992 I, X | but this joy was turned to mourning at the news of the death
1993 II, VII | fatal lethargy, and a few mouthfuls of rum from the Sergeant’
1994 I, XIV | ranged fixed benches. A few movable seats and two enormous presses
1995 II, VI | Lieutenant Hobson had noticed no movement whatever, not so much as
1996 II, XXIII| rapidly fretted away as it moves along. Its speed is hastening
1997 II, XIV | instruments, his books, and his MSS. back to his room, and more
1998 I, X | when they did arrive at the much-desired coast. But no matter, they
1999 I, III | about to occur to study the much-discussed corona. A total eclipse
2000 I, XVI | watertight with the clayey mud of the river, previously
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