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2001 I, VII | woman whose wish for a sable muff or an ermine tippet must
2002 I, XIII | altogether well adapted to the multifarious uses to which it would be
2003 II, V | musk-rats, beavers, and foxes multiplied with such rapidity near
2004 II, III | adopted them, and Sir Roderick Murchison will have nothing to efface
2005 II, XX | with her were hurrying.~She mused long upon this melancholy
2006 I, I | was no dancing for want of music, but the “buffet” admirably
2007 I, I | such as a court ball, or a musical soirée with a fine orchestra.
2008 I, I | supplied the want of the hired musicians of the European balls. On
2009 I, XIII | with as much address as the musket. Like sailors, they could
2010 II, X | wolves came actually within musket-range of the enceinte to devour
2011 I, IV | Hobson had the regulation musketoons provided by the Company,
2012 I, XX | roared like a volley of musketry. Hobson took care to provide
2013 I, I | otters, wolverenes, beavers, muskrats, water pole-cats, ermines,
2014 I, XVI | This was the musk-rat or musquash. Its head and body are about
2015 I, XIV | hand, to spend the day in mute companionship by the river-side,
2016 I, X | sincere friendship founded on mutual esteem, had sprung up between
2017 I, XVIII| o’clock in the morning. Myriads of brilliant constellations
2018 I, I | The two types of fabulous mythology, Briareus with a hundred
2019 II, VI | hammer in one hand and a nail in the other, was always
2020 I, XI | camel, they have a small nail-like hoof with a convex surface.
2021 I, XIII | the pins, tenons, bolts, nails, screws, nuts, &e., required
2022 I, I | visible, it is true, but their nakedness was disguised by arms and
2023 | namely
2024 I, X | had then relinquished the narrow-minded egotistical position it
2025 I, XXIII| distribution of land and the narrowness of the straits.”~“I tried
2026 I, XX | licked the plump sides of the national pudding for a few minutes,
2027 I, III | 1842, learned men of all nations—Airy, Arago, Keytal, Langier,
2028 I, XIX | sharing the opinion of the naturalist quoted above, any one might
2029 I, XXI | lower and lower, a thick, nauseous, acrid smoke filled the
2030 II, II | summary of the most recent nautical observations, so that it
2031 I, XXI | You are our chief; you ]nave no right to expose yourself.
2032 II, XIX | blue to green, as the great navigator Hudson observed they always
2033 I, I | full of energy. She was near-sighted, and a double eye-glass
2034 II, XIV | noticed many circular holes neatly cut in the ice, the use
2035 I, VIII | there exchange them for the necessaries of life, which they no longer
2036 II, VI | the better”~“But it will necessitate our going down to the south
2037 I, XIX | and received in exchange a necklace of black beads, which she
2038 II, XIV | life once more commenced. Needlework, mending the clothes, taking
2039 II, I | would be withheld.~“You needn’t be afraid,” said Hobson
2040 I, XIX | CHAPTER XIX.~ A NEIGHBOURLY VISIT.~On the 2nd December;
2041 I, I | look upon each other as neighbours although their homes may
2042 I, II | the course of the river Nelson, is the headquarters of
2043 II, VII | towards the south, every nerve strained to the utmost,
2044 I, XXII | they have a very delicate nervous organisation, if such an
2045 I, VI | acquainted with all the nets and snares for taking sables,
2046 II, XIX | the land. It is true the network of islands in the Catherine
2047 II, VII | the island of Sitka, rises New-Archangel, the principal settlement
2048 I, II | eastern side of which the new-Art is to be established. If
2049 II, XII | bear with the devotion of a Newfoundland dog! Probably the only one
2050 II, III | an unlucky godmother for newly-discovered places.”~
2051 II, IX | felt able to accompany her newly-found friends to the fort.~Before
2052 II, XV | upon the trees, and the newly-thawed sap swelled the bark of
2053 I, VI | and does not taste very nice; the fat becomes hard directly
2054 I, XXII | The earthquake came in the nick of time then, not only to
2055 I, X | expedition travelled day and night-if we can speak of the night,
2056 II, XXIII| rose and peered into the night-mists, bat seeing nothing, he
2057 I, XII | good reason. During the ninety-four years of French supremacy
2058 I, III | by the cutting sleet, and nipped by the terrible cold.~“What
2059 II, XXIV | proved itself worthy of its noble leader. We know how all
2060 II, IX | handed down amongst the nomad tribes of North America,
2061 I, IV | arms, ammunition, and a nondescript collection of various requisites.~
2062 I, III | private life he was a simple nonentity; he existed only for astronomy;
2063 I, XIII | winter in high latitudes Nooks and corners are, in fact,
2064 I, V | poetry of the ice-bound north-the poetry embodied in the Sagas,
2065 II, X | slight displacement, but in a northerly direction.~Hobson was in
2066 II, VI | be carried by it to the northwest. It is more likely, however,
2067 I, XIX | muscular. They had the flat noses, long eye-lashes, large
2068 I, I | straight nose, with its mobile nostrils. We must confess that her
2069 I, XIII | several miles, the Lieutenant notified, as the result of his observations,
2070 I, IV | deprived of bread and all other nourishment, subsist entirely on this
2071 II, I | hesitated, and his little wife nudged his elbow.~“Well, Lieutenant,”
2072 I, II | granted to the Company, which numbered several men of high rank
2073 I, XI | Large herds, sometimes numbering several thousand animals,
2074 II, XIX | St Lawrence, St Matthew, Nunivak, St Paul, George island, &
2075 II, X | kind of foster-father or nurse to the baby. He had carried
2076 I, IV | ground to powder, retains its nutritive properties in a very small
2077 I, XIII | tenons, bolts, nails, screws, nuts, &e., required in carpentry.
2078 II, XV | strewn with hummocks, broken obelisks, shattered blocks, overturned
2079 I, I | the arms of the service, obeying a single head. Is not this
2080 II, XV | and there was really no objection to be made to Hobson’s theory,
2081 II, XIV | was always pleasant and obliging. Mrs Barnett had undertaken
2082 I, XVII | glare of light reflected obliquely from the surface of the
2083 II, XXII | the islet was merely an oblong strip, not more than a mile
2084 I, III | attached to the Greenwich Observatory, so brilliantly presided
2085 I, XXIII| of course puzzle you. But observe that the expected convoy
2086 I, XIX | contented himself with observing quietly—~“The morses are
2087 I, XV | and lustrous variegated obsidian. Tall cliffs, rising some
2088 I, III | obstinate !”~Probably it was obstinacy which kept Thomas Black
2089 I, III | like this. Now, don’t be so obstinate !”~Probably it was obstinacy
2090 II, XII | Polar regions, which so obstinately resist every attempt to
2091 I, VIII | the Indian encampment, and obtaining as much useful information
2092 I, XIII | and sailors in common. For obvious reasons, however, Hobson
2093 I, XVI | territory belongs to whoever occupies it. You have founded a factory
2094 II, I | ridiculous” phenomenon occurring just so as to make him miss
2095 I, XV | be-very high in the Arctic Ocean-many navigators, such as Parry,
2096 II, II | an excellent map of the oceanic and atmospheric currents
2097 I, XXIII| factory, built at the cost of-so much suffering, with more
2098 II, XXIII| planks, remain floating; they offer some resistance to the waves,
2099 I, XIV | quick-hatch,’ an Indian an ‘okelcoo-haw-gew,’ and a Canadian a ‘carcajou.”’~“
2100 I, I | Madge was about five years older than Mrs Barnett, and was
2101 II, X | warmer climate was a good omen. Other birds capable of
2102 II, XX | island, making it tremble ominously. The little colony were
2103 I, II | number is now reduced by one-half at least.”~“But what do
2104 II, XXIII| set sail it has diminished one-third.”~“Are you quite sure?”~“
2105 I, XIV | and yielded a good crop of onions, each about the size of
2106 I, XXIII| began to assume a peculiar orange hue, whilst the atmosphere
2107 I, VIII | blue beak and claws, and orange-coloured eyes, which build their
2108 I, XVII | peopled by countless radiant orbs, and fuming with rage when
2109 I, I | musical soirée with a fine orchestra. Captain Craventy’s reception
2110 I, IV | by the Company, pistols, ordnance sabres, and plenty of ammunition;
2111 I, I | During the struggles in Oregon of the Hudson’s Bay Company
2112 II, XX | night of the 26th May, the orientation of the island changed once
2113 I, VIII | that they have lost all originality. To find a native race as
2114 I, XIII | brushwood with which it was originally covered was burnt, and the
2115 I, XIII | Barnett, who congratulated the originator of the scheme warmly on
2116 I, XXIII| Taurus, and [symbol] of Orion. The darkness deepened every
2117 I, XVI | the skin being used as an ornament for the collars of draught
2118 I, VI | being entirely without these ornaments. These wapitis were once
2119 I, XVIII| their electric waves, which oscillated and trembled as if swept
2120 I, VII | awful noise, and certain oscillations gave warning that breaches
2121 I, V | the bards of the time of Ossian. But Madge, more matter
2122 | otherwise
2123 I, V | intrepid women, in their otter-skin caps and white bear-skin
2124 I, VIII | lake had supplied plenty of otter-skins. The stock of them had,
2125 I, III | Keytal, Langier, Mauvais, Otto, Struve, Petit, Baily, &
2126 I, III | services to the science of ouranography. In private life he was
2127 II, XVII | the lips of the houseless outcasts.~“And the others, where
2128 I, XXII | between whiles that any outdoor work could be done; and
2129 I, XIV | Lieutenant had not forgotten an outrage which had been committed
2130 I, VIII | puffins and guillemots with outspread wings darted about in every
2131 II, XII | them, but seizing Marbre’s outstretched hand, he pressed it in his
2132 I, XIV | never allowing herself to be outstripped by her companions.~Throughout
2133 I, XXIII| Thomas Black relieve his over-burdened heart by pouring out his
2134 I, X | driven further north by over-zealous tracking; and indeed the
2135 I, XIV | clothing-such as boots, overcoats, furs, and skins-were also
2136 II, XII | were therefore thoroughly overhauled by Mac-Nab and his men,
2137 II, XII | fabulous monsters. Birds passed overhead with loud flapping of wings,
2138 I, IX | wait.”~Lieutenant Hobson overheard these words, and looked
2139 I, XIII | trusses of the roof, which overhung the walls like the eaves
2140 I, XXII | return in it. Having come overland, I should like to go back
2141 II, XIII | refuge. If the thaw should overtake us on the ice-field, we
2142 I, XVIII| room, so that without being overworked, the occupants of the fort
2143 II, X | and it will know that it owes the preservation of the
2144 I, XIV | It is a kind of daylight owl, about the size of a pigeon,
2145 I, X | fellow countrymen of my own-Englishmen-are awaiting succour.”~“Which
2146 I, I | obeyed his wife without owning it, doubtless thinking to
2147 I, I | saw bears, foxes, and musk oxen, falling beneath their bullets,
2148 II, XIX | air deficient as it was in oxygen, and charged with a great
2149 I, XIV | and then, too, a distant pack of wolves was seen, which
2150 I, IX | skilfully managed with the paddles, six feet long, sped rapidly
2151 I, XIII | young. They were kept in a paddock about fifty yards from the
2152 I, I | affair, yet he had spared no pains to give it éclat.~In fact,
2153 I, VI | continent, its beauties never pall upon me. But if your enthusiasm
2154 II, XV | the half decomposed, or “pancake” ice, in all weathers, through
2155 I, XVII | deerskin cloaks, sealskin pantaloons, fur bonnets, and waterproof
2156 II, III | of these birds, and tie a paper round their necks with our
2157 I, IV | the four corners of the parallelogram formed by the enceinte.
2158 I, II | industry was completely paralysed.~On the 2nd May, 1670, a
2159 I, VII | those who approach her, and paralyses their energies with the
2160 I, III | Black was rolled up like a parcel requiring care, were removed,
2161 I, V | the cloudless sky and the parching sunbeams?”~My dear,” replied
2162 I, XVI | warehoused and labelled as “parchments” or “young beavers,” according
2163 II, XIV | was at once removed to his parents’ room, and the rash soon
2164 II, XII | Aurora Borealis, halos, parhelia, &c.~During the last few
2165 II, V | about the same as that of Paris within the line of fortifications.
2166 II, IV | Perhaps some day floating parks will be invented which will
2167 I, IX | which could not have been parried, the bow of the boat was
2168 II, XXIII| advancing. The carpenter was particularly elated; all eagerly scanned
2169 I, XVI | hunters divided into two parties-Marbre and Sabine going after one
2170 II, XXI | they felt as if they were parting from an old and sorely-tried
2171 I, XIV | zoological name implies, to the partridge family, and might be aptly
2172 II, X | winter should render it passable. Led by instinct they had
2173 I, X | America.”~“But the North-West Passage-that is to say, the direct communication
2174 I, I | self-annihilation suited his passive temperament. Men such as
2175 I, XXII | pipes of the chimneys were patched together again somehow~Fortunately
2176 II, IV | some salt meat, a hare paté from Mrs Joliffe’s larder,
2177 II, XII | meat, corned beef, hare patès, dried fish, biscuits—the
2178 II, VIII | increased, making an irregular pathway along the snow. It was evident
2179 II, XIV | the Esquimaux, not less patient than the bears, also watch
2180 II, XIV | who had nursed several patients through scarlet lever, remembered
2181 I, XXIII| place. But doubtless the patron saint of astronomers had
2182 II, VI | roof with a noise like the pattering of hail. Mac Nab began to
2183 II, XXII | his excursion to the whole patty. He told them that they
2184 II, XIX | St Matthew, Nunivak, St Paul, George island, &c. The
2185 II, XIV | hug it to death in their paws, and carry it off. She knew,
2186 I, VII | with the first dawn of day peace was restored.~
2187 II, XXI | embark. It was floating peacefully on the little lake, strongly
2188 II, XV | the sky with their pointed peaks, their rugged cones, and
2189 II, XX | after flash of lightning and peals of thunder. The sea rose
2190 II, VII | bent like two old crippled peasants, they struck into a kind
2191 I, XIII | stone, not even a flint or a pebble, to be seen. The shore was
2192 I, XVII | yielding, and the unfortunate pedestrian sinks into it up to his
2193 I, VI | from between the stones peeped the moist calices of tiny,
2194 I, XXI | trap-door of the loft, and peeping through it, made sure that
2195 I, XX | light and shade which no pen or pencil could adequately
2196 I, XX | and shade which no pen or pencil could adequately portray.
2197 II, XX | in silence. She saw the pencil-mark which denoted the exact
2198 I, VI | in saying that it seldom penetrates beyond 57° N. latitude;
2199 I, XIII | would prevent the damp from penetrating the floors. A clean and
2200 II, X | happened, for it was beyond the penetration of the most far-sighted
2201 I, XVII | the vast realms of space, peopled by countless radiant orbs,
2202 II, I | were to a slight extent perceptible on our arrival?”~“Simply
2203 II, XX | would have been everywhere perforated.~Great havoc was caused
2204 II, VII | consciousness of a duty to perform, bravely struggled on against
2205 I, VIII | sort of whitish weed, which perfumed the air with a sweet thymy
2206 II, XXIII| examine the piece of ice. Its perimeter was still more reduced,
2207 II, XIII | influence of the masses of permanent ice in the north had not
2208 II, XV | Whenever the state of the sky permitted, which was almost every
2209 I, XIX | so the next day, weather permitting.~The next day was fine,
2210 I, I | of Regent Street or the Perspective-Newski. It seemed as if the whole
2211 I, I | pair, but their powers of persuasion were such that the most
2212 I, XVIII| that of Christiania and St Petersburg.”~“Then we must be prepared
2213 I, III | Mauvais, Otto, Struve, Petit, Baily, &c.—endeavoured
2214 II, X | The sea succumbed to the petrifying hand of winter, and became
2215 II, XV | large room, where he was petted and made much of. His mother,
2216 I, I | gin handed round in little pewter pots, not to speak of a
2217 I, I | Barnett, the rival of the Pfeiffers, Tinnis, and Haimaires of
2218 I, I | thinking to himself, like the philosopher Sancho, “a woman’s advice
2219 I, X | have since gone to seek it! Phipps in 1773, James Cook and
2220 I, X | devoted Esquimaux received phlegmatically the earnest expressions
2221 I, XV | although they belonged to the Phocidæ family, but morses or walruses,
2222 I, XVIII| blocks of ice, which required pick-axes to break them up.~It took
2223 I, I | traps. Their imagination pictured the costly furs piled up
2224 I, XIII | which had been brought piecemeal from Fort Reliance, and
2225 I, XIV | window but a bull’s eye pierced through the partition. Mrs
2226 I, XVII | vast solitude with their piercing cries; huge white bears
2227 I, XIV | converted into excellent pies by the skilful hands of
2228 I, XIV | owl, about the size of a pigeon, and has earned its name
2229 I, XIII | lake teemed with trout, pike, and other available fresh-water
2230 I, IV | exceeding forty pounds. Pikes, voracious lobes, a sort
2231 I, XVII | and uneven, strewn with piled-up ridges of ice and hummocks
2232 II, XV | to drive away feathered pilferers, such as guillemots or puffins,
2233 II, XV | replaced many an ice-master or pilot whose business it is to
2234 II, IV | torrid zones! With skilful pilots, well acquainted with the
2235 I, XVI | tent with the polecats and pine-martens, called “ Canada- martens,”
2236 I, XIII | without difficulty from the pine-trees, and thus making the walls
2237 I, IV | admirably adapted for walking. Pine-wood snow-shoes, two or three
2238 I, XIII | was able to make all the pins, tenons, bolts, nails, screws,
2239 I, II | contained no less than ten pints of coarse rum. Sugar, measured
2240 I, VI | fell beneath the axe of the pioneer of civilisation, and the
2241 I, XII | very evening these hardy pioneers, encamped so far from the
2242 I, IX | boat or kayak is a long pirogue raised at each end, made
2243 II, VI | of them would have been pitched about like passengers on
2244 I, XXIII| he cried in a comically piteous tone.~No, he could not face
2245 II, III | Vessels at sea might well be pitied in this fearful gale, but
2246 I, II | attempt at clearing ground was pitilessly put a stop to, as it drove
2247 I, XIII | tools-hatchets, centre-bits, adzes, planes, hand-saws, mallets, hammers,
2248 I, XXIII| absolute darkness. A few planets, amongst t others Mercury
2249 I, XIII | habitation which they were planning, there could be no variety
2250 I, XIV | carnivorous creature of the plantigrada family, and greatly resembled
2251 II, X | prepared beforehand for the planting of scurvy-grass and Labrador
2252 I, XVI | of hair at the root-for plastering over their buildings and
2253 I, XXIII| more and more disposed to play him some ill-natured trick.~
2254 II, VII | gentleman had ridden upon his playmate’s knees until they were
2255 I, XXIII| him along the beach, she pleaded the cause of Cape Bathurst
2256 II, IV | Barnett, “could there be a pleasanter mode of travelling than
2257 II, VI | that Hobson could take no pleasure in the fineness of the climate.~
2258 II, IX | Kalumah set out to fulfil her pledge. She left Russian America,
2259 II, X | fall still lower. Snow fell plentifully on the 23d and 24th September,
2260 II, XV | undertaken to protect the plot of ground cultivated by
2261 I, XIX | sides of the trench had been ploughed up by the creature’s sharp
2262 I, VIII | chief, wearing gorgeous plumes, hastened to meet them,
2263 I, XX | still fitfully licked the plump sides of the national pudding
2264 I, III | pushed open the door, and plunging into the snow, already a
2265 II, VII | and he was provided with a pocket compass with which to ascertain
2266 I, VI | this distance to hunt the polecat or the ermine, but merely
2267 I, XVI | tell the truth, were very polite, placed the dispute on another
2268 I, VIII | who was delighted with the politeness of Sergeant Felton.~Jaspar
2269 I, II | very important question of political economy was involved, madam;
2270 II, X | points, crystals, prisms, polyhedrons, and figures of every variety,
2271 II, VI | A fungus used as tinder (Polyporous igniarius).] with you, so
2272 II, XXIII| motionless upon the beach, pondering whether there might not
2273 I, V | difficult to guide than a pony-carriage, and the devil take me if
2274 I, XI | difficult of approach, poorly represented the rodents
2275 I, XII | American continent were populated in the same manner.~The
2276 I, IV | bisons, elks, and Canadian porcupines, the flesh of which is excellent.
2277 I, XX | pencil could adequately portray. The throbbing reverberations
2278 I, XV | country behind them seemed to possess two entirely distinct characters;
2279 I, I | handed round in little pewter pots, not to speak of a great
2280 II, XIV | advised cooling drinks and poultices. Kalumah was indefatigable,
2281 II, XV | collected about the fort pounced upon and devoured them almost
2282 I, XVI | of the river, previously pounded by the animals’ feet. The
2283 I, XVIII| and overturn twenty-four pounders. Here, however, the darkness
2284 I, XIII | and so the idea was put in practice at once, and many tons collected
2285 I, XI | that the hunters had to practise upon in this second stage
2286 I, V | Polar regions and the green prairies of Australia! You remember,
2287 II, V | for which he and his wife prayed every day, was as yet denied
2288 II, VII | asleep.~At eight o’clock prayers were read as usual, the
2289 II, XVIII| saying little, but often praying silently. They had now nothing
2290 II, XV | vapour which congeals on its precipitation. The minute particles of
2291 I, VI | and huge icebergs with precipitous sides stood out against
2292 II, XIV | phenomenon, and have made precise calculations on their intensity,
2293 I, XII | side of its disc would be precisely that at which it would occupy
2294 I, VI | them in keenness of sight, precision of aim, or manual address.
2295 II, X | then we shall be in a worse predicament than we are on our island.”~“
2296 I, XI | amongst others had a special predilection, was not abundant. There
2297 I, XI | amongst which the pine predominated. Some of the woods might
2298 I, XVIII| colours of the rainbow, red predominating. Here and there. the stars
2299 II, I | inexplicable, will not in the least prejudice your interests. We are not
2300 I, IX | he replied; “and you must prep are for the worst.”~“I am
2301 I, I | The eggs, milk, and citron prescribed in recipe books were, it
2302 I, XVII | became welded to the coast, presenting a surface broken and distorted
2303 I, XIV | which might be dried and preserved for consumption during the
2304 I, XX | returned thanks to God for preserving them through so many perils;
2305 I, XIV | movable seats and two enormous presses completed the furniture
2306 II, XII | of their chief, they had pretended to know nothing, and had
2307 II, II | it. I must think of some pretext for beginning the work at
2308 II, XIV | intense, but owing to the prevalence of west winds it never lasted
2309 I, XVI | clayey mud of the river, previously pounded by the animals’
2310 II, I | as he had been. No human prevision could have foreseen such
2311 I, XIV | employ in stalking their prey-particularly the reindeer, which are
2312 II, XV | his field the enemy was preying upon the other.~It would
2313 I, XVI | whitish-brown; its great price-six times that of any other
2314 I, VIII | still command very high prices in the Russian market. Russian
2315 I, XI | marine surveys; whilst the primary object of the expedition—
2316 II, V | attired as the grandest princesses, or the most wealthy ladies.
2317 II, X | sharp points, crystals, prisms, polyhedrons, and figures
2318 I, XIX | only managed to enlarge its prison, not to escape from it.~
2319 II, XIV | said Mrs Barnett, “he is a prisoner like ourselves, and you
2320 I, V | succumbed to the fatigues, privations, and mental and bodily agonies
2321 I, VI | wrestlers struggling for a prize which neither will yield,
2322 II, XVIII| fresh downfalls; but the proceedings were ably directed by Mac-Nab.~
2323 II, XV | you that the thaw always proceeds from the north to the south.”~
2324 I, XIII | had recourse to calking, a process which seamen find invaluable
2325 I, XIII | gone through all the usual processes; but it answered its purpose,
2326 I, VI | therefore always eager to procure the skins of the wapitis.”~“
2327 I, XIX | affections, which damp cold produces. No symptoms of scurvy had
2328 II, XII | of no use to count on the product of the chase this time.
2329 II, XXI | then it was covered with a productive soil, trees and shrubs flourished
2330 I, VI | chase, whilst Thomas Black professed absolute indifference to
2331 I, XIX | snow-houses. But a traveller by profession, a laureate of the Royal
2332 I, III | brilliantly presided over by Professor Airy. Mr Black was no theorist,
2333 I, X | Paulina Barnett was most profuse in her expressions of gratitude.
2334 II, XIV | The little boy’s recovery progressed favourably, and at the end
2335 I, II | Siberian squirrels were prohibited at the middle of the 12th
2336 II, XIX | interest. The ground was more prolific than it could have been
2337 I, XVIII| the circumstances the “ promenade “ was soon over; but Mrs
2338 I, I | admiration, too cautious to make promises, the taciturn chiefs listened
2339 II, XII | Nothing was neglected to promote the success of the undertaking,
2340 I, VIII | the southern shores, and promoted the coming and going of
2341 II, XVIII| of the four victims. By prompt measures, however, they
2342 I, I | refreshments! They did not need prompting, they anticipated the wishes
2343 I, XX | symptoms of scurvy were promptly checked by the use of lime-juice
2344 II, XVIII| and it became necessary to prop up the sides of the shaft
2345 I, I | world-famous Hudson’s Bay Company—~“PROPELLE CUTUM.”~“Really, Corporal
2346 II, XVIII| driven along by this mighty propelling force, was drifting rapidly
2347 II, XIV | doubts as to the friendly propensities of Polar bears.~“Let him
2348 I, II | 1 Captain Craventy’s prophecy has since been realised.]
2349 II, XIV | enceinte, as Hobson had prophesied, as he entered it.~This
2350 I, VII | Hobson was not mistaken in prophesying a change in the weather.
2351 I, XVI | us really killed it.”~The proposition was a fair one, and the
2352 I, XXII | foundations of which had to be propped up; and Hobson also ordered
2353 I, XIII | so bravely and with such prospects of success, was destined
2354 II, X | The tame reindeer also prospered, their stable was comfortable,
2355 II, XV | establishment which was prospering so well! To give up the
2356 II, VII | absolute exhaustion and prostration.~It was half-past eleven
2357 I, XVII | of natural and artificial protections they hoped to be able successfully
2358 I, VIII | which seemed, as it were, to protest against the brilliant but
2359 I, XX | Thomas Black indignantly protested against this assertion.
2360 I, XIX | curling out of a conical protuberance on the ice-field some hundred
2361 I, XVII | and the “ hummocks,” or protuberances caused by the squeezing
2362 I, XVI | replied the Lieutenant proudly.~“This is no time for such
2363 II, IX | know the rest. We know the providential instinct which led Mrs Barnett
2364 II, IX | She had, in fact, been providentially thrown on that portion of
2365 I, XI | useful. Their thick skin provides clothes, their hair makes
2366 I, XIII | help, was invaluable in providing for all the small wants,
2367 I, XIII | to occupy the dining-hall provisionally, and a kind of camp-bed
2368 I, II | sense, immoral system, which provoked the measures taken by Parliament,
2369 I, XXI | come down from the roof and prowl about the court. Two risks
2370 I, XX | the ice-fields sometimes prowled huge bears, whose movements
2371 I, X | explore these latitudes, was publicly charged with receiving a
2372 I, XX | figured two huge Christmas puddings.~In the evening a huge bowl
2373 II, X | ice-field was covered with puddles of water, and in some parts
2374 I, IX | acted in the grooves of the pulleys, and the yard remained attached
2375 II, IX | felt the vital heat and pulsation returning to the poor bruised
2376 I, XV | said Hobson; “all these pumice-stones and pebbles have been discharged
2377 I, XV | beach, with grey and yellow pummice-stone, and lustrous variegated
2378 I, VIII | the trackers have now to pursue it on the shores of the
2379 I, XVI | ease, and thus elude their pursuers. In the winter, however,
2380 II, X | no reason to assign for putting a stop to the collecting
2381 I, XV | tide?”~“That is just what puzzles me,” said Hobson; “for I
2382 II, XV | shattered blocks, overturned pyramids, it resembled a tempest-tossed
2383 I, XVII | pairs of those speckled quails remained which the Indians
2384 I, XIII | wife, an Indian woman, well qualified to take charge of them.~
2385 I, VI | are fighting out an old quarrel.”~“Would not this be the
2386 I, XVI | powerful rivals, and that quarrelling and even bloodshed would
2387 I, XXIII| in excellent health. No quarrels had arisen amongst the colonists,
2388 I, XIV | attention of hunters to their quarry, by uttering a sharp note
2389 I, XXIII| completely changed colour. At a quarter-past ten half the disc of the
2390 I, II | years after the taking of Quebec, 1776, the fur trade received
2391 I, I | orders he received never questioning them, however strange they
2392 I, XIV | Scotchman would call it a ‘quick-hatch,’ an Indian an ‘okelcoo-haw-gew,’
2393 II, III | Lieutenant and the Sergeant.~All quickened their steps, eager to reach
2394 II, VII | bound.~But the instant they quitted the shelter of the wood
2395 II, XIX | listless now to think of quitting it, as the sea was open
2396 I, XIX | opinion of the naturalist quoted above, any one might have
2397 II, V | which its superficial area[r] would appear to be about
2398 II, VIII | his chart before him, he racked his brains to find some
2399 I, II | 22,303~ ~ Racoons,. . . . . . . . . . 713~ ~
2400 I, IX | terrible. The hurricane rages as if upon the open Atlantic
2401 II, VII | Jagged masses of mist and ragged rain-clouds swept along
2402 I, I | The storm could be heard raging without, the snow fell fast,
2403 I, IX | revealed low jagged masses of rain-cloud chased towards the south.
2404 I, XVIII| milky transparent lunar rainbows which have been so often
2405 I, XII | and the same morning, by raking different altitudes, and
2406 II, XVIII| steady voice could have rallied them. As the men toiled
2407 I, XI | miles from the coast, and to rally their forces twice a day,
2408 I, XVII | glittering ice-peaks with snowy ramparts and buttresses, valleys,
2409 I, VI | each other like a couple of rams, and seemed to be inseparably
2410 I, XIV | table, around which were ranged fixed benches. A few movable
2411 I, V | had hitherto escaped the rapacity of man.~On the morning of
2412 I, X | however, forming dangerous rapids. Its course, at first very
2413 I, VI | but she liked to hear his raptures in praise of his beloved
2414 I, XI | pleasant addition to the daily rations of biscuit and corned beef,
2415 I, I | windows, and occasionally the rattling noise drowned every other
2416 I, XI | more than enough of these ravenous beasts prowling about the
2417 I, XVIII| Whilst Thomas Black was raving in ecstasy, dead to all
2418 II, XVII | Arctic Circle. It had at last re-entered that zone of the terrestrial
2419 II, VIII | replied Hobson simply, re-entering the public room.~Mrs Barnett
2420 II, VI | communication would, in a word, be re-established by means of the broken isthmus;
2421 I, XIX | traps were now uncovered and re-set. A good many footprints
2422 I, VII | other means must be tried of reaching this point, where all the
2423 II, VIII | Mrs Barnett and Madge had readied the rising ground above
2424 I, II | territory; and consequently realising immense profits, in spite
2425 I, XVII | imagination through the vast realms of space, peopled by countless
2426 I, XXI | stoves warmed the bodies and reanimated the drooping courage of
2427 I, XX | The sun would doubtless reappear above the horizon in due
2428 I, V | Joliffe bringing up the rear. According to the orders
2429 I, XV | would appear to be the more reasonable hypothesis, Mr Hobson.”~“
2430 II, I | and could not but see the reasonableness of his deductions, but he
2431 II, VII | in seven days “——~“Your reasonings are very just, Lieutenant,”
2432 I, VI | flowers. These faint signs of reawakening vegetation, after the long
2433 II, XIII | first all were disposed to rebel, the poor creatures had
2434 I, IX | struck against the bottom and rebounded to an immense height.~“Help!
2435 I, V | with an ominous hiss, and rebounding, twisted itself round Corporal
2436 I, V | beneath our bearskins; you recall the broiling rays of the
2437 II, XIX | for some time; all that recalled the bitter cold of the Polar
2438 I, XIII | corners are, in fact, so many receptacles of ice. The partitions impede
2439 I, I | and citron prescribed in recipe books were, it is true,
2440 I, XXI | was in despair; he had not reckoned upon such a contingency
2441 II, I | we made a mistake in our reckoning, ... our first observation
2442 II, VIII | reflects, he calculates, he reckons up the time still remaining
2443 II, IX | she opened her eyes, and recognising her preserver she murmured—~“
2444 I, XXI | door was pushed open, they recoiled for an instant, panting
2445 I, V | nothing. How could I now recollect the sufferings to which
2446 I, V | arid Australia? You have no recollection of our agonies when water
2447 I, VIII | laid up a store of pleasant recollections for the future whilst the
2448 II, II | sextant, and they hoped to recommence the same operation the next
2449 II, XIV | tincture of belladonna was recommended, and administered one or
2450 II, XIX | deserved a far different recompense! Can you forgive me?”~“There
2451 II, XXII | thought he would make a reconaissance of his limited domain, and
2452 II, XX | configuration of the island. Reconaissances were taken everyday, but
2453 I, XVIII| which Lieutenant Hobson recorded the slightest events of
2454 I, IX | turned over on its side; but recovering itself, it was flung upon
2455 II, I | would grumbling have done? Recriminations were worse than useless.
2456 I, XIII | line. This outline formed a rectangle measuring sixty feet on
2457 I, XI | Thomas Black, was able to rectify certain errors in previous
2458 I, VIII | miles’ distance, following a rectilinear direction, so that the wooded
2459 I, V | willows began to bud, and the redheaded ducks, of which there are
2460 I, VIII | ducks, whistlers spotted redshanks, “old women,” those loquacious
2461 I, II | And the motive for this reduction?” inquired the traveller.~“
2462 I, XXIII| conclude that your anxiety has reference to the elements.”~“Madam,”
2463 I, XVI | tributary of the stream already referred to. It is true, the fur
2464 I, XIX | English behaved with greater refinement, and watched Mrs Barnett
2465 I, I | chandeliers, and provided with tin reflectors, relieved the gloomy appearance
2466 II, VIII | significance of facts, he reflects, he calculates, he reckons
2467 I, XVII | of the sun, and darkness refreshes and strengthens the eyes,
2468 I, I | grace they distributed the refreshments! They did not need prompting,
2469 II, X | seek their usual winter refuges in the south. Under ordinary
2470 II, XXIII| sighted, they would have refused to believe it.~So it appeared,
2471 II, XIV | favourite’s bedside, and refusing to take any rest.~About
2472 II, XII | considerable difficulty in regaining its feet.~The monster made
2473 II, XIV | Hope, and he had come to be regarded as a kind of talisman in
2474 I, I | more favoured regions of Regent Street or the Perspective-Newski.
2475 II, XIV | child of the fort, of the regiment! He was born in the terrible
2476 II, XII | his instruments, and his registers. Always very silent, it
2477 II, II | was the good of useless regrets? It must, therefore, be
2478 II, XIV | or less extent broke the regularity of the surface in the offing,
2479 I, IV | governors of the factories could regulate salaries, and arbitrarily
2480 I, XVII | The heat of the stove was regulated according to the variations
2481 I, IV | Lieutenant Hobson had the regulation musketoons provided by the
2482 I, II | Samoiedes; but during the reign of Elizabeth, a royal decree
2483 I, XVIII| night.~But although darkness reigned without, the noise of the
2484 I, IV | consisted of garments made of reindeer-skins, lined throughout with thick
2485 I, XXII | doghouse, the other to the reindeer-stable. The dogs had not suffered
2486 I, XIX | bears’ steaks are as good as reindeers’, and we get the fur in!
2487 I, XX | would not do, however, to rejoice too soon. The winter had
2488 II, XIII | expiring fire never to be rekindled; this was all that could
2489 I, XVI | attending its death deserve relation in detail, as they proved
2490 II, XXIII| were two reasons for the relegation:—First, under the pressure
2491 I, II | own particular trade, were relentlessly put aside by the governors
2492 I, VIII | winter but these moving relies, which the solar rays could
2493 I, X | The Company had then relinquished the narrow-minded egotistical
2494 I, XX | although the lamps had not been relit, the room did not become
2495 I, I | were such that the most reluctant yielded in the end. The
2496 I, XII | however, impossible to rely upon the marine surveys
2497 I, III | clearness of sight was something remarkable. The power of observation
2498 I, XV | Hobson could not refrain from remarking on this peculiarity to Mrs
2499 I, IV | lemons, and other simple remedies necessary to check, or if
2500 II, I | his anxiety, and seeing no remedy for the misfortune, mastered
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