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Part, Chapter
2501 II, VIII | the furred animals without remonstrance or complaint, and appeared
2502 I, V | she opened her eyes.~The renovation of creation in spring is
2503 I, XVIII| kept bright and in good repair, boots to be manufactured,
2504 I, XXII | They worked zealously at repairing the house, the foundations
2505 I, XXII | burnt, and the most pressing repairs executed by Mac-Nab and
2506 II, VIII | they shared their simple repast like sisters.~Half an hour
2507 II, XIII | from difficulties. But I repeat, the task we have set ourselves
2508 I, VII | but Nature herself who repels those who approach her,
2509 I, I | thank you!”~Such were the replies met with on every side by
2510 I, X | which native miners had reported. On November 6, 1769, this
2511 I, I | with a hundred heads, well represent the two kinds of armies;
2512 II, XX | large scale, and the point representing the island looked but a
2513 I, V | him, and how stern was the reprimand of Lieutenant Hobson!~The
2514 I, I | he himself had never been reprimanded. In a word, he was a man
2515 I, V | disgrace for the Corporal! how reproachfully his little wife looked at
2516 II, X | Esquimaux might at any moment be reproduced at Cape Bathurst. At any
2517 II, XXI | men, and understood their repugnance to embarking on the raft;
2518 I, X | Smith, penetrated as far as Repulse Bay in the hope of discovering
2519 I, IV | but yielded to the urgent request of Captain Craventy, who
2520 II, X | of the ruminants, which require an exclusively vegetable
2521 I, XVI | plenty to do to satisfy the requirements of the Company, for so far
2522 I, XVIII| atmospheric conditions is requisite to produce intense cold.
2523 I, IV | nondescript collection of various requisites.~The troops, under the command
2524 II, X | who was very proud of the resemblance. At dessert the baby was
2525 I, XV | sometimes called sea-cows. They resemble the seals in general form,
2526 I, XXII | coming, he would have to resign himself to another winter,
2527 II, X | fresh blow with courage and resignation.~“Perhaps,” said Mrs Barnett, “
2528 II, XIX | felt that the house, whilst resisting the enormous pressure, was
2529 I, X | Lieutenant’s impatience, and resolutely resisted fatigue in order
2530 II, X | cemented together. Loud resonant noises were constantly heard,
2531 I, I | large saloon of the factory resounded with joyful hurrahs. And
2532 II, XX | waves, could only be a last resource, and would not move at half
2533 I, XIX | subterfuge was unworthy of a respectable fox.”~About the 10th December,
2534 I, XI | as a rule, they kept at a respectful distance. In the winter,
2535 II, V | Marbre touched his cap respectfully, and turned on his heel,
2536 I, III | guests had regained their respective homes, either in the different
2537 I, XIX | dispensed with paying their respects inside.~And Mrs Barnett
2538 II, X | your duty, that you are not responsible for the caprices of nature,
2539 I, XVI | inhabitants are now all asleep and resting; they only work in the night,
2540 I, II | Elizabeth, a royal decree restricted the use of costly furs to
2541 I, XIX | years ago. Probably the ice rests on a bed of granite, and
2542 I, VIII | therefore, lost no time in resuming his journey, urging on the
2543 II, V | further south, whilst still retaining its motion towards the west.
2544 I, IV | animals, ground to powder, retains its nutritive properties
2545 I, XVIII| others, drawing out the most reticent by her intelligent questions
2546 II, XIII | anybody would imagine.~Before retiring, however, Mrs. Barnett asked
2547 I, VI | Barnett could easily have retorted with counter-arguments;
2548 II, XV | hours, I think it is time to retrace our steps.”~Mrs Barnett
2549 II, XV | young native’s sagacity, retraced their steps. Appearances
2550 I, XII | not now have dreamed of retracing his steps.~“Frenchmen are
2551 I, X | CHAPTER X.~ A RETROSPECT.~It was about ten o’clock
2552 II, I | and there was no means of reuniting it to a continent. No; God
2553 II, IX | flashed upon her like a revelation. Before her excited imagination
2554 I, XX | previous illumination.~The revellers started to their feet, and
2555 II, VII | hard body; they heard the reverberating echoes which told of the
2556 I, XVII | the naked eye; indeed, the reverberation or flickering glare of the
2557 II, XV | Lieutenant broke in upon her reverie, and said—~“Madam, it is
2558 I, V | latter lake; and he was to revictual at Fort Enterprise, a station
2559 II, V | although it had not been revictualled by Captain Craventy’s detachment.
2560 I, XXI | little hope that he would revive.~A cry of grief and despair
2561 I, XVII | However, they shouted out “au revoir” in significant tones, for
2562 I, XXI | tinder-box and a loaded revolver. Just before starting he
2563 I, XVI | a large animal, and were rewarded by bringing down a very
2564 I, XIX | some strange melancholy rhythmical songs with a peculiar metre,
2565 II, VI | boat, which was planked and ribbed. Hunting might now be neglected
2566 II, XV | delicately-shaded hue. Jasper-like ribbons of green and blue alternated
2567 II, V | whole party would be as richly attired as the grandest
2568 II, VII | The young gentleman had ridden upon his playmate’s knees
2569 II, I | unexpected, and, as he said, “ridiculous” phenomenon occurring just
2570 II, XV | the northern waters. Her rig, which was completed, consisted,
2571 II, XIV | others were busy making the rigging in the magazines of the
2572 II, IX | but a stroke of the paddle righted it at once.~After about
2573 I, XII | ice-mountains became fixed and rigid, and the hoarse north wind
2574 I, X | often proved, inured to the rigours of the Arctic climate. Was
2575 II, XVIII| something hard, which gave out a ringing sound. The head carpenter
2576 I, XVI | desirable to let them “ ripen,” or, in other words,-to
2577 I, XX | breaking into coloured ripples.~But the excessive cold
2578 I, XXI | prowl about the court. Two risks to be run !~Long, Mac-Nab,
2579 I, X | days they kept along the river-banks without meeting with any
2580 I, XIV | mute companionship by the river-side, whence they were sure to
2581 I, VI | on their front legs as if riveted to one another. What implacable
2582 I, XX | braving a temperature in which rnercury freezes.~Such was the distressing
2583 I, VII | icebergs blocked up the road, causing constant delay.
2584 I, VI | were roughly shaken. The roads were so heavy that the dogs
2585 I, XIX | intermediate species “ between roan and the sea-cow.~Lieutenant
2586 I, XIV | blackcock (Tetrao tetrix). When roasted slightly before a quick
2587 I, II | the misery of the Indians, robbed them when they had themselves
2588 I, VIII | these agents, then, highway robbers?” asked Mrs Paulina Barnett.~“
2589 I, IV | the “ Voyage of Captain Robert Lade,” on what terms exchanges
2590 I, V | Pole.~And indeed the most robust had sometimes succumbed
2591 I, XIV | two sallied forth together rod in hand, to spend the day
2592 II, III | yet adopted them, and Sir Roderick Murchison will have nothing
2593 I, VI | antlers, American stags, roebucks, grey elks and red elks, &
2594 II, XVIII| accumulated masses, so as to roll down loose blocks on the
2595 II, XIII | answer to their names in the roll-call on our arrival at Fort Reliance.
2596 I, XVI | trappers described in the romances of Washington Irving, whose
2597 II, XXIII| three of the timbers of the roofs. Most of the cooking utensils
2598 I, XVI | scales instead of hair at the root-for plastering over their buildings
2599 I, VI | poplars, and certain wild roses to which they are very partial.”~“
2600 I, XV | Parry, Franklin, the two Rosses, M’Clure, and M’Clintock,
2601 II, XIV | end of the month he was as rosy and as bright as ever.~At
2602 II, X | on this 21st September, a rotating motion was for the first
2603 II, XV | that the smooth surface was rotten underneath, and she would
2604 I, VIII | was worth several hundred roubles.~The furs of these valuable
2605 I, IX | the lake the waves became rougher. Nothing there broke the
2606 I, I | rough walls, constructed of roughly-hewn trunks of trees piled up
2607 I, VII | sometimes to lift them when the roughness of the ground threatened
2608 II, XXII | as if nothing could ever rouse or astonish him again.~The
2609 II, X | herbs on which to browse, roved about Cape Bathurst in herds.
2610 I, XVII | constellation to that of another, roving in imagination through the
2611 I, III | end of half an hour the rubbers began to despair, and were
2612 II, XXI | wind was aft. A sort of rudder was fixed to this rough
2613 II, XV | tempest-tossed sea or a ruined town, in which not a building
2614 I, VIII | resembling the extended skin of a ruminant without the head.~Fort Confidence
2615 II, VII | formerly in the hands of the Russians; and Hobson, although he
2616 I, XIII | Craventy, two-Marbre and Sabine-were skilful hunters; the other
2617 I, IV | Company, pistols, ordnance sabres, and plenty of ammunition;
2618 II, XII | heavy rain instead of the sadly-needed snow, the column of mercury
2619 II, XXII | told them that they were safer where they were than they
2620 I, III | Black was no theorist, but a sagacious and intelligent observer;
2621 II, XV | trusting in the young native’s sagacity, retraced their steps. Appearances
2622 II, I | sticks to us.”~And with this sage remark the men drew off,
2623 II, XV | had been made use of for sailcloth.~This boat would carry the
2624 I, XXIII| But doubtless the patron saint of astronomers had pity
2625 I, IV | factories could regulate salaries, and arbitrarily fix the
2626 I, II | Parliament forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors on
2627 I, XIV | equal. Day after day the two sallied forth together rod in hand,
2628 II, XXIII| No one would touch the salt-meat served round by Mrs Joliffe.
2629 II, XXI | constantly drenched with saltwater. Moreover, it must be remembered
2630 II, VI | clock.”~And with a military salute Sergeant Long retired.~A
2631 II, II | ice, our only anchor of salvation, the only power which can
2632 I, II | through the agency of the Samoiedes; but during the reign of
2633 I, X | up?”~“No, madam, not yet. Samuel Hearne, the agent, only
2634 II, XXIV | to go back to Europe via San Francisco and the United
2635 I, I | himself, like the philosopher Sancho, “a woman’s advice is no
2636 II, XV | iceberg capped with earth and sand-would be flung down.~Some large
2637 I, XIX | the fort, thanks to the sanitary precautions taken.~The winter
2638 I, XVI | deerskin mocassins, and a sash of checked woollen stuff
2639 I, III | edge of the terrestrial satellite when the totality of the
2640 I, VI | fighting. Was their rage satiated?- or had they perceived
2641 I, III | commenced; and should he be able satisfactorily to establish their origin,
2642 II, III | it not, to Mrs Joliffe’s saucepan. Polar hares, martens, musk
2643 II, XX | embark in the raft, the scaffolding of which was nearly finished,
2644 I, XXI | rushed into the passage, scaled the ladder, and shut and
2645 I, XI | rendered bold by hunger, soon scampered off, and no serious struggle
2646 II, XXIII| particularly elated; all eagerly scanned the horizon, and had they
2647 I, XIV | Fort Reliance.~Knowing the scarcity of vegetables, Jaspar Hobson
2648 I, XXIII| to say, instead of being scared away by the guns, continued
2649 II, XIV | evident that he had malignant scarlatina, which would certainly produce
2650 II, XIV | several patients through scarlet lever, remembered that tincture
2651 I, XX | gazing upon such a glorious scene-a scene which once looked
2652 I, XVII | close to the factory. Their scent is very keen, and they were
2653 I, XI | interest in the success of its schemes.~Fancy, then, the disappointment
2654 I, III | 1706 this luminous halo was scientifically described. The corona was
2655 I, V | desert, when the pitiless sun scorched us to the bone, when even
2656 I, XVI | largely increased, another score of morses had been killed,
2657 II, X | noticed by the famous explorer Scoresby, these crystals immediately
2658 I, I | only for her mistress. A Scotchwoman of the old type, whom a
2659 I, XI | extreme ugliness; eider ducks; scoters or black divers, &c. &c.,
2660 I, XIX | medium,” the idea of which he scouted; and certain savants have
2661 II, I | replied Joliffe with a scowl. “You know well enough that
2662 II, IX | herself along, stumbling and scrambling up again, she at last approached
2663 I, XXI | time. Now some of the bears scratched at the masonry, whilst others
2664 I, XXI | smoke. Mingled howls and screams were heard, and blood began
2665 I, XI | huge birds with a harsh screeching cry; fishing hawks, which
2666 I, XVIII| something to do. Thomas Black screwed and unscrewed his instruments,
2667 I, XIII | pins, tenons, bolts, nails, screws, nuts, &e., required in
2668 II, XV | underneath, and she would scud across an ice-field riddled
2669 I, VIII | the actual state of the sea-coast near the seventieth parallel.
2670 I, XIX | species “ between roan and the sea-cow.~Lieutenant Hobson, Mrs
2671 I, XV | walruses, sometimes called sea-cows. They resemble the seals
2672 I, XIII | and smelts. The supply of sea-fish was not so good; and though
2673 II, III | of Liverpool Bay. Now a sea-line bounded the view, the continent
2674 I, VIII | traders, ready to buy up sea-otter skins, travel all along
2675 I, XXII | shall have no fear of being sea-sick.”~“What you say does not
2676 I, XIII | seaweed or zoophytes, mostly sea-urchins and asteriadæ; but the soil
2677 II, XXI | that salt separates from sea-water in freezing and evaporation.
2678 II, XIX | Island, worn away by the warm sea-waves, and melted by the rays
2679 II, VI | greater when he saw the sea-weed which told him of the proximity
2680 I, IX | covered with stretched seal-skins strongly stitched with the
2681 I, XIII | calking, a process which seamen find invaluable in rendering
2682 II, V | he had given his chief a searching glance.~Hobson remained
2683 I, XI | animals before the approaching season-that is to say, before the winter
2684 I, XIII | broken by the surf, and with seaweed or zoophytes, mostly sea-urchins
2685 I, I | in the monotony of their secluded lives, in these hyberborean
2686 II, XIV | Black at this return to seclusion. The poor astronomer carried
2687 II, XV | that her efforts were ably seconded by the faithful Madge.~Mrs
2688 I, XXIII| four minutes thirty-seven seconds-that is to say, from forty-three
2689 II, II | every one agreed with him.~Secrecy was once more promised,
2690 I, II | appointed by the Colonial Secretary decided that it was necessary
2691 I, VII | You think, then, that the secrets of the most remote districts
2692 I, XXI | the ladder, and shut and securely fastened the trap-door.~
2693 I, XV | site of the fort was of sedimentary formation and aqueous origin.
2694 II, X | North West Passage, or the seekers of the North Pole,” repeated
2695 I, XVIII| colour spread from the dark segment on the horizon, some of
2696 II, XV | impossible to hear one’s self speak, a ceaseless roar
2697 I, I | man born to obey, and this self-annihilation suited his passive temperament.
2698 I, I | and he became a man in self-control and courage whilst yet a
2699 I, V | about to enter required self-denial and devotion, and that submission
2700 II, IV | although with the most perfect self-possession.~His head and arms alone
2701 I, IV | the articles they buy and sell, they cannot fail to realise
2702 I, IV | currency employed in buying and selling.~The Indians paid—~ ~~~
2703 I, XVIII| only word to express the sensation produced by touching a metallic
2704 II, XVIII| Thomas Black.~Madge, also senseless, was next found; and she
2705 II, XIV | Madge, who retained her senses about her, advised cooling
2706 I, XIV | who replied in his usual sententious manner—~“A Scotchman would
2707 I, VII | What! do you utter such sentiments?” exclaimed Mrs Barnett.~“
2708 I, XIV | undertook to erect a wooden sentry-box commanding the coast-line,
2709 II, V | built two little pointed sentry-boxes, which completed the defences;
2710 II, XIX | the banks, and launched separately. They were then easily fitted
2711 II, XXI | fact, well known that salt separates from sea-water in freezing
2712 I, XXII | fort was built, which might seriously compromise the safety of
2713 I, XVII | fastidious skaters of the Serpentine. On the verge of the horizon,
2714 I, VIII | May; and they were most serviceable now in consolidating the
2715 II, X | for her to get back to the settlements of Russian America before
2716 I, III | is to say, at the rate of seventy-five strides a minute.~But Captain
2717 II, XIX | words the history of the seventy-four hours spent in the house
2718 II, X | between the seventieth and seventy-second parallels is not great enough
2719 II, XVIII| choked voice.~It was now seventy-six hours since the avalanche
2720 I, VI | propitious, the cold not too severe-everything has combined to aid us.”~“
2721 I, XVI | the surface, even in the severest weather. This dam, which
2722 I, II | Bay, at the mouth of the Severn, in the south, and towards
2723 I, XIX | Joliffe at her cooking or sewing. She asked the English name
2724 I, IV | female, wore seal-skin boots sewn with twine, in the manufacture
2725 II, XV | superior to that of most of her sex, and now she was to be seen
2726 I, XIX | possible to distinguish sexes. There were two men, about
2727 I, XXIII| a few minutes. . . . My sextant-quick . . . make haste !”~One
2728 I, V | of being too warm, for I sha’n’t believe you!”~Mrs Paulina
2729 I, XX | produced effects of light and shade which no pen or pencil could
2730 I, II | of Albemarle, the Earl of Shaftesbury, &c. Its capital was then
2731 I, XIX | might have taken the rough shaggy figures for seals or some
2732 I, XIII | of his examination. The shallow waters of the lake teemed
2733 I, III | friction, but a vigorous shampooing most lustily performed,
2734 I, II | of high rank amongst its shareholders : the Duke of York, the
2735 I, XIX | Indeed, without in the least sharing the opinion of the naturalist
2736 I, XVIII| dinner awaiting them with sharpened appetites.~W e can readily
2737 II, VII | arms, others mending or sharpening their tools. The women were
2738 I, XVI | replied Hobson rather sharply, “it is mine in any case.”~
2739 II, XX | along had avoided all land, sheering clear of islands, and never
2740 I, XXII | Black shrank back into his shell, and became once more the
2741 II, XII | do that there can be no shirking from the task” “When you
2742 I, XVI | person, a striped cotton shirt, wide cloth trousers, leather
2743 II, XIV | thirst and alternations of shivering and fever, soon reduced
2744 I, XIII | favourite resort of salmon and shoals of white bait and smelts.
2745 I, XI | made by a human foot, a shod foot; but, strange to say,
2746 I, XIV | to be tanned and used for shoe-leather.~Besides the caribous, there
2747 I, II | in the most reckless and short-sighted fashion. Even females with
2748 I, XI | itched when they came within shot-range of a sable or some valuable
2749 I, XIV | them and step briskly along shouldering her gun bravely, and never
2750 I, IX | frightened bird, but the shout of a human voice! By one
2751 I, I | constantly fed with fresh shovelfuls of coal by the stoker, an
2752 II, XII | at 34° Fahrenheit. These showers of comparatively warm water
2753 I, IX | that all was lost. Not a shred of canvas was left to aid
2754 I, XIV | from the keen blasts, which shrivel vegetation like a fire,
2755 I, XXIII| cried the poor astronomer” shrugging his shoulders. “Who can
2756 II, XII | shudder. Soul and body alike shrunk from the awful prospect,
2757 II, III | entrance to the strait. Whalers shun the sudden changes in the
2758 II, XII | retired from the world, shunning his companions, taking part
2759 I, V | Ocean; wait until the winter shuts us in with its gigantic
2760 I, XVIII| window from inside, but the shutter outside was encrusted over
2761 I, II | passion. Vair and the furs of Siberian squirrels were prohibited
2762 I, XIV | They found a useful alley (sic) in a certain little traitorous
2763 I, XXIII| south of Spain, Algeria, Sicily, and Turkey; a third on
2764 I, XIX | It was suffocating and sickening! Madge could not stand it,
2765 I, XIV | larches were, however, few and sickly looking, as if they found
2766 I, XV | assembled for the afternoon siesta in which the. amphibious
2767 I, III | efforts, when the poor man sighed several times.~“He lives;
2768 I, III | did the courier’s reply signify?— To see the moon! The moon
2769 I, X | not two of us, Dease and Simpson, who were sent by the Governor
2770 I, X | which they were passing. A sincere friendship founded on mutual
2771 I, IX | strongly stitched with the sinews of the Walrus. In the upper
2772 I, XII | race, and always ready to sing or dance.”~“And do you suppose
2773 I, I | looked upon Madge as an elder sister, and Madge treated Paulina
2774 I, XIX | the other woman was her sister-in-law, married to one of the men,
2775 II, VIII | their simple repast like sisters.~Half an hour later, Mrs
2776 II, IV | is spread for us, let us sit down. This moss, although
2777 II, VII | south, on the island of Sitka, rises New-Archangel, the
2778 II, XXII | and the astronomer was sitting apart from every one, gazing
2779 I, XX | be brought down into the sitting-room, as the alcohol was freezing
2780 I, XII | might determine the exact situations, and find out if it fulfilled
2781 II, XXII | islet!~During the night six-sevenths of the district once belonging
2782 II, XX | followed the hundred and sixty-eighth meridian, it would already
2783 I, IV | turning up at the end like a skate, was fixed beneath the sledge,
2784 I, IV | it with the rapidity of a skater on ice, can be fastened
2785 I, V | constellations of the Polar skies are spread out above our
2786 I, XIV | Marbre and Sabine were skilled in all the artifices which
2787 I, V | species in North America, to skim the surface of the numerous
2788 I, VIII | whose beak is never closed, skimmed the surface of the lake.
2789 II, VIII | uttering their various cries, skimming the surface of the sea or
2790 I, XIV | boots, overcoats, furs, and skins-were also taken there, and protected
2791 II, VII | they reached the southern skirts of the wood, where the hills
2792 I, V | compelled the sledges to slacken speed, and Mrs Barnett and
2793 II, X | the speed of the island slackened during the darkness in consequence
2794 I, I | upon as little better than slaves. The presence of these natives
2795 I, XX | joyous strains roused up the sleepers whether they would or no,
2796 II, V | Mac-Nab constructed a large sleeping-room for the soldiers, so that
2797 I, XXIII| had come, began to utter sleepy calls -and to seek their
2798 I, III | half-blinded by the cutting sleet, and nipped by the terrible
2799 II, XX | of the house, which had slid under the island, were seen
2800 I, XXI | firmly in, leaving a narrow slit through which to watch the
2801 II, IV | appeared to be wrapt in slumber, its bosom slightly heaving
2802 II, XII | seized the gun which was slung over his shoulder and presented
2803 II, VIII | on the ground, which it smelt at every now and then, lifting
2804 I, IV | were bound : a stove; a smelting furnace, two airpumps for
2805 I, XIII | shoals of white bait and smelts. The supply of sea-fish
2806 I, XXIII| no more for it all than a snail for a chronometer.”~It is
2807 II, I | with the mainland—had been snapped in two by a subterranean
2808 I, XVII | of trap as that used for snaring birds in fields on a large
2809 II, XVIII| pause, except when they snatched a little food, there was
2810 I, VII | find a shelter from the snow-drift; but this was no difficult
2811 II, XIII | leaving never to return. A few snow-encrusted rafters stood out in the
2812 I, XVI | assumed their beautiful snow-white coats with the one black
2813 II, XXIII| looking like a great white snowball, cowered motionless at the
2814 II, III | was framed. Large eagles soared above their heads, their
2815 II, XIX | a situation?~Mrs Barnett sobbed aloud, and large tears rolled
2816 I, XIX | fancy to Mrs Barnett. But sociable as she was, she appeared
2817 I, I | by Corporal Joliffe. No sofas, chairs, or other modern
2818 I, XIX | layers of snow were becoming softer, ordered his men to clear
2819 I, XVI | kind-arises from its superior softness, thickness, and length.
2820 II, II | bitter cold of winter would solder Victoria Island to the vast
2821 I, I | conversation increased. The soldiery and employés became excited.
2822 I, XXIII| but awaited the eclipse in solemn silence.~Towards half-past
2823 I, IV | can be fastened to the soles of the seal-skin boots.
2824 I, XIX | precautions taken.~The winter solstice was now approaching, when
2825 II, V | present him with such a son! but, alas! the blessing
2826 I, XXIII| Hobson tried in vain to soothe him, and Sergeant Long and
2827 II, XXI | parting from an old and sorely-tried friend.~Hobson fully sympathised
2828 I, XIX | My trembling heart, with sorrow filled,~Aches drearily !~
2829 I, XXI | prevent any attempt at a sortie.~Throughout the whole day
2830 II, XVIII| had been dug out.~Mac-Nab sounded again, nothing yet, his
2831 II, VIII | had collected above the south-eastern horizon the day before,
2832 I, V | migratory birds from the south-such as swans, bald-headed eagles, &
2833 II, XX | current, it is bearing in a south-westerly direction.”~The Lieutenant
2834 II, III | the isthmus.~Formerly the south-western horizon was shut in by a
2835 II, XV | across the ice-fields in a southeasterly direction. On this side
2836 II, IV | and Hobson returned to the southwest angle of the island, whilst
2837 II, XV | plants Mrs Joliffe and I sowed so carefully!... O madam,
2838 I, XVII | snow, Mrs Joliffe was busy sowing the seeds of Cochlearia (
2839 II, IV | shaking himself like a wet spaniel, “except that the ice gave
2840 II, VI | like a drowning man at a spar, lashed by the wind, drenched
2841 II, IX | were they lest the faint spark of life remaining to the
2842 I, XII | landscape smiled, and the waves sparkled in the sunbeams, whilst
2843 II, XX | about in the offing like the spars of a wrecked vessel. This
2844 II, XXIII| gathered eagerly round the speaker, and looked at him inquiringly.
2845 I, XV | despatched them with their spears, whilst the rest of the
2846 I, I | the stoker, an old soldier specially appointed to the service.
2847 II, I | water by reason of its being specifically lighter than it. Yes, it
2848 I, XVII | only a few pairs of those speckled quails remained which the
2849 I, XX | soon drove the admiring spectators back to their warm dwelling,
2850 I, II | imposed on their own employés, speculated on the misery of the Indians,
2851 I, II | endless succession, like speculators on the Stock Exchange.~“
2852 I, VII | Barth, Burton, Livingstone Speke, Douglas, Stuart, &c. Others,
2853 I, XVIII| assembled in the large room, spending the whole of Sunday together.
2854 II, XVII | zone of the terrestrial sphere in which at one period of
2855 I, II | Parliament forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors on Indian territory;
2856 I, VI | wapitis really are most spiteful beasts. I have no doubt
2857 I, VII | coasts of Greenland and Spitzbergen she had read in the accounts
2858 II, XXIII| rippling of the waves and the splash of pieces of ice as they
2859 II, XV | Fortunately no one was hurt by the splinters.~From two to five o’clock
2860 I, XVI | at seeing this valuable spoil fall into the enemy’s hands.~
2861 I, XIII | prepared the way for future sport, contenting themselves for
2862 I, VIII | eider ducks, whistlers spotted redshanks, “old women,”
2863 I, XI | impelled to dance in this sprightly fashion some degrees above
2864 I, XVII | metamorphosed, a new country was springing into being before her admiring
2865 II, XIX | and vice versa in early springs.~Now the warm season of
2866 I, XV | red, green, and blue, were sprinkled on the unfrequented beach,
2867 I, XXII | Joliffe had planted began to sprout. The carpet of snow had
2868 I, XIV | The black fir, or Norway spruce fir, throve better, especially
2869 I, XVI | Company come to act as a spy on the settlers in the fort.
2870 I, XIII | of a chalet. Above this squared architrave were laid the
2871 I, XIII | were neither barked nor squared-and formed so many timbers,
2872 I, I | their wives, the luckless squaws being still looked upon
2873 II, XIV | ice towards the north, and squeezed it against the island.~Although
2874 I, XVII | protuberances caused by the squeezing of one piece against another,
2875 I, II | and the furs of Siberian squirrels were prohibited at the middle
2876 II, V | by the officer and his “staff,” and Mrs Barnett and Madge
2877 II, VII | leaning on their iron-bound staffs, they reached the postern
2878 I, XI | practise upon in this second stage of their journey. The former,
2879 II, XVIII| and Mrs Barnett painfully staggered to her feet. Looking round
2880 I, XVII | with shot, but got off, staining the snow with their blood,
2881 I, II | if its interests were at stake. Its agents imposed on their
2882 II, X | like an aggregation of stalactites. It was more like a glacier
2883 I, XIV | which sportsmen employ in stalking their prey-particularly
2884 I, XIII | themselves fairly installed stalled in their new abode, and
2885 I, VII | it may become the natural starting-point of all expeditions to the
2886 I, XV | behind lest they should startle the seals.~At the first
2887 I, XX | reports were heard, which startled those unaccustomed to living
2888 I, VI | replied; “don’t be afraid of startling the animals; for, as our
2889 II, XVIII| Hobson, “they will not be starved—but how about air?”~To this
2890 I, XX | Polar hares. Some twenty starving wolves were shot. Hunger
2891 I, XIII | several cabins, like the state-rooms on board ship.~The soldiers
2892 I, XVII | any tide at all, and the statements of navigators on the subject
2893 I, II | greatly to interest the statesmen of Great Britain. In a word,
2894 I, V | revictual at Fort Enterprise, a station two hundred miles further
2895 II, XIV | provided with a rope, and stationed himself at a different hole.~
2896 I, XIV | Fort Hope and the southern stations.~
2897 II, XXI | deck-house, and strengthened with stays attached to the corners
2898 II, XV | took the observation in his stead. It was now most important
2899 II, XXII | top-gallant sails all set. It was steadily advancing to the north.
2900 I, XIX | grumble at that, bears’ steaks are as good as reindeers’,
2901 I, II | new route be available, steamers will take them from the
2902 I, XIV | food of the Polar hares. Steeped in boiling water, and flavoured
2903 II, XV | Hobson would be able to steer his boat into the open sea.
2904 II, XIX | on the Asiatic and Cape Stephens on the American coast, but
2905 II, X | At this moment Marbre stepped forward, and said quietly.~“
2906 I, XVI | another voice, and a stranger stept forward and placed his foot
2907 II, V | and soon the stern and sternpost, fixed to the keel, were
2908 II, IX | She struggled on until her stiffened arms and bleeding hands
2909 I, VI | escape us now. They will not stir from where they are when
2910 I, XIII | lilac-Nab, a Scotchman from Stirling, who had had considerable
2911 I, V | Fortunately not a breath of air stirred, and this lessened the severity
2912 I, IX | stretched seal-skins strongly stitched with the sinews of the Walrus.
2913 II, VII | their tools. The women were stitching away industriously, and
2914 I, XVI | value.~Very few ermines or stoats were seen, and Jaspar Hobson
2915 I, XII | construction of the fort, and for stocking, it with’ fuel. The Lieutenant
2916 I, I | shovelfuls of coal by the stoker, an old soldier specially
2917 I, IV | ground-floor and one upper storey. In it lived the commandant
2918 I, XVI | Each lodge contains two stories; in the lower the winter
2919 I, I | felt no more fear than the stormy petrels disporting themselves
2920 II, IX | attachment. Then she told her story: she had not forgotten the
2921 II, V | when you talked in that strain!~The manufacture of winter
2922 II, VII | towards the south, every nerve strained to the utmost, in the effort
2923 I, XX | all joined. These joyous strains roused up the sleepers whether
2924 II, VIII | the ice distinctly. The strand, fretted away in many places,
2925 I, XIII | by chance happened to get stranded on the coast; nor would
2926 I, XIII | from its fires assuming strangely-contorted forms in the wind.~But now
2927 I, XIX | looked searchingly at the strangers, and after a few moments’
2928 II, III | exact arrangement of the stratified layers of ice and earth
2929 I, XIII | those found in the lowest stratum of the Tertiary formations.~
2930 II, IX | floated on their crests like a straw. It was capsized several
2931 II, XV | and blue alternated with streaks and dashes of all the colours
2932 I, XX | A bright red light was streaming through the window, which
2933 I, I | favoured regions of Regent Street or the Perspective-Newski.
2934 I, IV | than Europe. In April the streets of New York are still white
2935 I, XVII | and darkness refreshes and strengthens the eyes, weary with the
2936 I, V | by ice, and I have but to stretch my arm out of this sledge
2937 I, VI | difficulties for us, and strew obstacles in our path.”~“
2938 I, XIII | with which the shore was strewed.~“Make chimneys of shells!”
2939 I, XX | each other every hour, had strict orders to keep up the fires,
2940 I, III | the rate of seventy-five strides a minute.~But Captain Craventy,
2941 I, XVI | arranged about his person, a striped cotton shirt, wide cloth
2942 I, XIV | flesh was cut into long strips for food, the skins being
2943 II, IX | capsized several times, but a stroke of the paddle righted it
2944 II, XIII | a powerful swimmer a few strokes soon brought him to the
2945 I, IX | the cutting blast, they strove to gaze through the thick
2946 I, XVI | They are extremely solid structures, and the walls made of stick,
2947 II, XV | sufficient protection. Strong struts were fixed against the outside
2948 I, VIII | direction, and beneath the trees strutted ospreys two feet high-a
2949 I, III | Langier, Mauvais, Otto, Struve, Petit, Baily, &c.—endeavoured
2950 I, XV | before he proceeded to stud the eastern side, which
2951 I, XVIII| brilliant constellations studded the sky, and at the zenith
2952 II, XXIII| On the shrouds a sort of studding sail was rigged up of clothes,
2953 I, X | Paulina Barnett was an earnest student with a special gift for
2954 I, VI | little lake. They were both students and enthusiastic lovers
2955 I, III | opportunity offered him of studying this luminous halo. He was
2956 I, XVI | sash of checked woollen stuff round the waist, from which
2957 I, I | beef that of the ham and stuffed veal of the old world. The
2958 II, VIII | exhausted, and risen again to stumble farther on; look, the footprints
2959 II, VII | a falling tree, or they stumbled over a stump they had not
2960 II, IX | dragging herself along, stumbling and scrambling up again,
2961 II, VII | or they stumbled over a stump they had not been able to
2962 I, XXI | the colonists, asleep or stupefied, knew nothing of the attempt
2963 I, XIX | strength. It belonged to the sub-order of white bears, and had
2964 I, VII | civilisation will necessarily subdue the wild races sooner or
2965 I, XV | which prevented the entire submersion of the whole district, and
2966 I, V | self-denial and devotion, and that submission to their officers was an
2967 I, XIX | enceinte. Mac-Nab and his subordinates set to work zealously, and
2968 I, IV | and all other nourishment, subsist entirely on this venison,
2969 I, XIV | Mac-Nab constructed a most substantial table, around which were
2970 II, IV | it was evident that the substratum of ice, fretted by the warmer
2971 I, XIX | rage for,” he said, “such a subterfuge was unworthy of a respectable
2972 I, X | globe.”~During this and the succeeding journeys Jaspar Hobson related
2973 II, XVII | round, and the sun had risen successively on every point of its shores.~
2974 II, XX | ephemeral inland was gradually succumbing—every one, except perhaps
2975 II, VIII | south-east with extraordinary suddenness, without unfortunately decreasing
2976 I, XIX | Esquimaux’s diet. It was suffocating and sickening! Madge could
2977 II, VIII | not adopt the Sergeant’s suggestion, that a ship had passed
2978 I, I | her whole appearance was suggestive of moral power, rather than
2979 I, IX | immediately , as our brave guide suggests.”~“We are off, then,” cried
2980 II, XXIII| of his comrades to commit suicide also. At all hazards he
2981 II, IV | although slightly worn, will suit us admirably, and was evidently
2982 II, X | ascertain its thickness, its suitability for the passage of sledges,
2983 I, XXII | earthquake may, in fact, be summed up in a very few words :
2984 I, II | to such an extent, that sumptuary laws were enacted to control
2985 I, XVIII| protect his fort than a single sunbeam could melt the solid layer
2986 I, XVIII| room, spending the whole of Sunday together. Reading was the
2987 II, XV | back at the fort before sunset, as they had only two or
2988 I, XIX | the young native, showed superhuman courage, and extended her
2989 II, XV | and help everybody, and to superintend all that was going on. We
2990 II, X | and many terrible, almost supernatural, trials still awaited the
2991 II, IV | would mean?”~“That it was supper-time,” replied Hobson. “Don’t
2992 I, XVI | used. The lynx has all the suppleness and agility of the feline
2993 I, XIII | would be no difficulty in supplying the Company’s demands for
2994 I, VI | enough to eat it, and it supports life as well as anything
2995 II, XVII | end of their trials was surely near at last, and that nothing
2996 II, XV | had advanced. No foot was surer than hers upon the ice,
2997 I, XXII | the shortest, it was the surest route, at a time when, the
2998 II, XVIII| masses, which seemed to be surging all along the northern horizon,
2999 I, XVI | difficulties have to be surmounted in order to obtain them,
3000 I, XIV | angler, and nothing could surpass the skill and patience with
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