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Part, Chapter
3001 I, XV | position they were able to survey the whole surrounding country;
3002 II, II | hitherto noticed by marine surveyors.~One is called the Kamtchatka
3003 II, XV | every eye. It could not survive the Arctic winter, it was
3004 II, XIV | would certainly not have survived him had he died, but he
3005 II, III | similar means to acquaint the survivors of the Franklin expedition
3006 I, VII | formidable enemy; and I suspect that the white bears we
3007 I, XXI | whilst the moisture held in suspension in the air of the passage
3008 II, IX | Fort Hope.~Yes, this hope sustained her, but she had scarcely
3009 I, XVII | hardened by frost, it easily sustains the weight of a man; but
3010 I, XI | and forming their only sustenance in winter. On the whole,
3011 II, XXII | musk-rats, and beavers literally swarmed upon the site of the former
3012 I, IV | hunting districts. once swarming with game, early attracted
3013 I, III | transported to Norway and Sweden on the occasion of the eclipse
3014 II, XV | Kamtchatka Current might sweep the island to the north
3015 II, XXIII| waves were washing over it, sweeping off the terrified quadrupeds
3016 I, VI | were out of sight, and the swiftest horse could not have caught
3017 II, XV | treaded the ice-masses with a swiftness of foot and an absence of
3018 I, VIII | watching these animals, who swim and dive with marvellous
3019 II, XXIII| plunged into the sea, and swimming to the shore, soon disappeared.~
3020 I, XVII | like the famous Alps of Switzerland. A few scattered birds,
3021 II, XIX | looked around her after her swoon—~“The sea! the sea!”~Those
3022 II, XV | here arranged with greater symmetry than outside. In some places
3023 II, XXI | sorely-tried friend.~Hobson fully sympathised with the feelings of his
3024 I, XX | unhealthy building.~One symptom we must notice was the great
3025 I, XIV | Jaspar also noticed the “tacamahac,” a species of poplar which
3026 II, XIX | could save them. It was a tacit, a touching acknowledgment
3027 I, XV | great improvement upon the tactics of Vauban and Cormontaigne),
3028 I, XVI | feet. The beavers use their tails-which are large and flat, with
3029 II, XIV | be regarded as a kind of talisman in the dangers and difficulties
3030 II, VIII | the palisade, and becoming tamer every day. Their instinct
3031 II, V | congregated by hundreds.~The taming of the reindeer had been
3032 I, IV | without producing any very tangible results; but his wife was
3033 I, XIV | the skins being kept to be tanned and used for shoe-leather.~
3034 I, VIII | granite, the slopes with their tapestry of herbs, the tree-crowned
3035 I, XIII | hollow with layers of hot tar, obtained without difficulty
3036 I, VI | It is tough, and does not taste very nice; the fat becomes
3037 II, XXI | purposes, and when Mrs Joliffe tasted it, she found that it was
3038 I, I | three pieces of red bunting, tastily arranged about them, challenged
3039 I, XXIII| symbol] and [symbol] of Taurus, and [symbol] of Orion.
3040 I, XIII | however, seemed likely to tax the ingenuity of the workmen
3041 II, X | nearly ready, and indeed it taxed Mac-Nab’s powers to the
3042 I, XVI | America, sometimes called the Taxel badger.~Another animal of
3043 II, XIX | Norton Sound, between Cape Tchaplin on the Asiatic and Cape
3044 I, V | take me if I can’t manage a team of dogs !”~“I don’t question
3045 II, XIV | up for the time, and very tedious did the long dark hours
3046 I, XV | turning.” They beguiled the tediousness of the way by chatting pleasantly,
3047 I, XXII | water-fowl which began to teem upon its banks. As Hobson
3048 I, XIII | shallow waters of the lake teemed with trout, pike, and other
3049 II, V | furred animals, a lagoon teeming with fish, plenty of herbs
3050 II, XXIII| reservoir with air!”~“Do as he tells you!” cried Mrs Barnett.~
3051 I, I | self-annihilation suited his passive temperament. Men such as he are the
3052 II, IX | bathed her forehead and temples with cold water, and waited.~
3053 II, XIV | must not put too strong a temptation in the way of our carnivorous
3054 II, XII | awful prospect, and she was tempted to shut her eyes and stop
3055 II, IX | season. Her arrival would tend only to strengthen the belief
3056 II, VIII | stained with blood.~The brave, tender-hearted woman, had spoken of saving
3057 I, XIX | voice, and caressing it tenderly.~Indeed if not exactly superior,
3058 I, XVII | In some favourable years tens of thousands of them have
3059 I, XIX | with Mrs Barnett, if the term “talking” can be applied
3060 I, V | the long Esquimaux whip, terminating in a stiff thong. Thomas
3061 I, XIII | the lowest stratum of the Tertiary formations.~A furnace was
3062 I, XIV | nor less than blackcock (Tetrao tetrix). When roasted slightly
3063 I, XIV | less than blackcock (Tetrao tetrix). When roasted slightly
3064 I, XXI | in the house, and leave th]“No, my friends, no!” cried
3065 II, XVII | ago; we ought to be very thankful that it was impassible!”~
3066 I, XV | it would appear natural that-but Kellet is making signs to
3067 I, XVIII| not count upon a few days’ thaw-will not all this snow be rapidly
3068 I, VI | a few minutes gained the theatre of the struggle. The wapitis
3069 | thee
3070 I, XXI | Death would then await them-death in its most fearful form,
3071 I, IV | Everything had to betaken with them-food, clothes, tools, arms, ammunition,
3072 I, XIX | animals. There were six of them-four full-grown, and two children.
3073 I, III | Ferrer in 1806; but their theories were so contradictory that
3074 I, III | Professor Airy. Mr Black was no theorist, but a sagacious and intelligent
3075 II, XV | objection to be made to Hobson’s theory, founded, as it was, upon
3076 II, XV | Victoria Island had been thickened and strengthened by a fresh
3077 | thine
3078 I, XV | surface of the earth is thinest, and as the globe is flattened
3079 I, XXII | only say what every one thinks. But may I ask you one question.
3080 II, IV | uneasy. He felt sure that the thinness of the ice would lead to
3081 I, XXII | and I don’t suppose our thirsty men will drain it quite
3082 II, X | a rate of from twelve to thirteen miles a day, so that each
3083 I, XI | near the one hundred and thirtieth meridian, and at about the
3084 II, II | months to build a thirty or thirty-five ton vessel, and the sea
3085 II, X | cries! He actually weighed thirty-four pounds! The announcement
3086 I, VII | Pole will have been led thither in pursuit of a sable or
3087 I, XI | their hair makes very good thread, and their flesh is palatable;
3088 II, VII | vessels whose safety they threaten attack with artillery. It
3089 II, XXII | and seemed to be a large three-master, evidently a whaler from
3090 I, VII | brittle masses of ice, and in three-quarters of an hour some ten dens
3091 II, XXIII| terrified at his manner, threw herself upon him and held
3092 I, XIV | insufficient to make them thrive. The black fir, or Norway
3093 I, VI | that although the wapiti thrives in a cold country, Lieutenant
3094 II, VII | complete darkness, the wind thundering among the branches over
3095 I, XX | south, which would of course thwart all his plans for hunting
3096 I, VIII | perfumed the air with a sweet thymy odour. Sergeant Felton informed
3097 II, X | their necks a stiff cloth ticket, on which was inscribed
3098 II, XV | and on some were found the tickets tied round their necks by
3099 I, XV | the Antarctic circle, in Tierra del Fuego, and Australasia.
3100 I, VII | a reception as would the tiers of Thibet or the lions of
3101 II, XXI | security doubly sure, he tightened them, and the worst that
3102 II, XIV | over its neck and pulled it tightly. His comrades rushed to
3103 I, XIII | ridges, framework, and tiling-would have to be contrived of
3104 II, XXI | familiar to them; they had tilled the soil, and had come safely
3105 I, XXII | mosses and slender grasses timidly pushed up their stems above
3106 I, XIV | larder. They were much less timorous than the European species,
3107 I, I | chandeliers, and provided with tin reflectors, relieved the
3108 II, XIV | scarlet lever, remembered that tincture of belladonna was recommended,
3109 II, VI | Footnote: A fungus used as tinder (Polyporous igniarius).]
3110 I, I | rival of the Pfeiffers, Tinnis, and Haimaires of Hull,
3111 II, III | it with many a brilliant tint, the angry billows of the
3112 I, XX | became dashed with golden tints, the hummocks on the ice-field
3113 I, V | on the ground with their tiny-pointed tails. It was intoxicating
3114 I, XVI | creature, with a coal-black fur tipped with white at the extreme
3115 I, VII | sable muff or an ermine tippet must be gratified !”~“I
3116 I, XXI | shall get rid .of these tiresome brutes.”~“I suppose they
3117 I, IV | and countless legions of tittamegs, the Coregonus of naturalists,
3118 I, XXIII| Do you hear? It was not to-t-a-1! I say not to-t-a-l! !”~“
3119 I, XXIII| not to-t-a-1! I say not to-t-a-l! !”~“Then your almanacs
3120 I, IV | 6 “~~~~~~“ one pound of tobacco,~~~~1 “~~~~~~“ one box of
3121 I, XVI | were suspended his knife, tobacco-pouch, pipe, and a few useful
3122 II, V | wonderfully; he was beginning to toddle about between the house
3123 II, XII | noticed at once, had all been tokens easily interpreted by the
3124 II, XXI | winds and waves. Even in tolerably fine weather seas would
3125 I, I | upon himself. He would not tolerate the slightest infraction
3126 II, II | a thirty or thirty-five ton vessel, and the sea would
3127 I, XIII | were well provided with tools-hatchets, centre-bits, adzes, planes,
3128 II, XXII | lower sails, top sails, and top-gallant sails all set. It was steadily
3129 I, XXII | that it does not pitch and toss, I shall have no fear of
3130 I, XXIII| that the eclipse was not total-not total for this portion of
3131 II, IX | once been familiar.~She tottered on, stopped, and again struggled
3132 I, XVII | as to fall on the least touch-in fact, the same sort of trap
3133 II, X | game, and finally the last touches were given to the inner
3134 I, VIII | visible floating from the tower of the fort. The oblique
3135 II, XIII | groups which looked like towns falling into ruins. Some
3136 I, XVI | said at last, gracefully toying with his gun, “that you
3137 II, XV | soldiers had made many little toys for him during his illness,
3138 I, V | ventured from their holes, tracing strange figures on the ground
3139 I, X | further north by over-zealous tracking; and indeed the marks of
3140 I, XII | important association for trading in furs except our own,
3141 I, XVI | good reason. He wore the traditional costume ascribed to his
3142 II, XX | ducking which might have had tragic consequences.~A little later
3143 I, V | shoot along like express trains, and as long as this fine
3144 I, XIV | sic) in a certain little traitorous bird to which the Indians
3145 II, XIX | been in any former spring, transferred as it was to milder latitudes.
3146 I, XII | its culmination, on its transit across the meridian, would
3147 I, XXII | March, there were abrupt transitions from fine to bad weather.
3148 I, XIX | Barnett had the patience to translate one of these Greenland sagas,
3149 I, XIX | rendering of Mrs Barnett’s translation, which may give a faint
3150 I, IV | planks joined together by transverse bands. A piece of curved
3151 I, II | the hunters. The game was trapped and killed without mercy.
3152 I, XIX | position, would allow of the trapping of another animal in the
3153 I, X | The district they were now traversing could have no direct interest
3154 II, XV | rocks, the young girl firmly treaded the ice-masses with a swiftness
3155 I, I | Craventy was this evening treating his employés and the Chippeway
3156 I, XIV | every variety of culinary treatment from Mrs Joliffe, and won
3157 I, II | after much discussion, a treaty was made, in accordance
3158 I, VIII | their tapestry of herbs, the tree-crowned hill-tops, were all alike
3159 II, XIII | noticed certain ill-omened tremblings on the spot he had chosen
3160 I, XV | cut off, and with jagged tremulous outlines standing out against
3161 II, VI | various buildings, and dug trenches in the court to carry away
3162 I, VIII | the upper portion forms a triangle; its appearance, as a whole,
3163 I, VII | numerous streams, mostly tributaries of the two large rivers,
3164 I, XVI | watchful Lieutenant, on a tributary of the stream already referred
3165 I, XXIII| play him some ill-natured trick.~It was very fine on the
3166 I, VI | and our fingers on the triggers !”~Indeed? Yes, madam,”
3167 I, XIV | they were sure to return in triumph laden with some splendid
3168 I, VI | earth, and water, are de trop in the Arctic regions.”~
3169 I, XVII | far, were both from the tropic zones of India or Australia!~
3170 I, X | told of her travels in the tropics. She spoke of all she had
3171 I, XXII | had been dependent on the truant for drinkable water. Fortunately
3172 I, XII | America-imperfect, it is true-the western coast beyond Cape
3173 I, I | hands; it was an immense truncated cone, composed of flour,
3174 I, XIII | fronts, rested the high trusses of the roof, which overhung
3175 II, XIII | is impossible!”~The men trusted their chief implicitly.
3176 II, IX | which after all rested on no trustworthy evidence, and probably belonged
3177 I, VIII | the boat with the tiller tucked under his arm. Mrs Barnett
3178 II, VI | but by clutching at the tufts of herbs with which they
3179 I, XXI | shed without much danger. A tug violently shaking one or
3180 I, XVIII| that there were a good many tumbles, but no serious injuries.~
3181 I, XIX | skins, which are called tupics.~It was no easy matter to
3182 I, XXIII| Spain, Algeria, Sicily, and Turkey; a third on the 19th August
3183 I, X | discovered by Hearne and Cape Turnagain. This expedition endured
3184 II, II | miles from the strait, it turns suddenly to the east, pretty
3185 I, II | that he will go beyond the Twenty-fourth parallel?”~Captain Craventy
3186 II, III | following the one hundred and twenty-seventh meridian. Looking behind
3187 I, IV | seal-skin boots sewn with twine, in the manufacture of which
3188 I, XVIII| magnificent constellations twinkling on the zenith. But he was
3189 I, V | ominous hiss, and rebounding, twisted itself round Corporal Joliffe’
3190 I, XIII | chosen by Captain Craventy, two-Marbre and Sabine-were skilful
3191 I, I | powerful organisation? The two types of fabulous mythology, Briareus
3192 I, XI | of mocking jay of extreme ugliness; eider ducks; scoters or
3193 I, III | Maraldi in 1724, by Antonio de’Ulloa in 1778, and by Bonditch
3194 I, II | well informed as to the ulterior projects of the celebrated
3195 I, XXIII| and enthusiasm was still unabated. The surrounding districts
3196 I, XX | heard, which startled those unaccustomed to living in such high latitudes.
3197 I, XIII | and after due deliberation unanimously agreed to bestow upon the
3198 II, XIV | but the smell of it was so unbearable that every one preferred
3199 I, XXIII| seems to me to be something uncanny about this district. If
3200 I, XVII | the eyes, weary with the unchanging brightness of several months
3201 II, X | forward to the future in happy unconsciousness!~A year ago the first symptoms
3202 I, II | belonging to it in a wild uncultivated condition. Every attempt
3203 II, XVII | they would all have had to undergo in crossing five hundred
3204 I, XXII | icebergs broken by collisions, undermined by the action of the water
3205 II, III | future, especially wherever undermining seemed to be going on rapidly
3206 II, XV | smooth surface was rotten underneath, and she would scud across
3207 I, XIV | extremity of the lagoon Mac-Nab undertook to erect a wooden sentry-box
3208 I, IV | Game was abundant in the underwood, even during the bad season.
3209 II, XVIII| them. When a sudden fall undid their work they felt discouraged,
3210 I, XVIII| cloudless heavens, once more undimmed by mists or vapours. Never
3211 I, V | frozen so hard as to be undistinguishable from the vast white plains
3212 I, XI | these districts, hitherto undisturbed by hunters. They had thus
3213 I, XX | But what’s done can’t be undone. How long will the wood
3214 I, XV | horizon were volcanoes.~“Undoubtedly,” said Hobson; “all these
3215 I, III | affected by it. Joliffe undressed him, and turned him rapidly
3216 I, XVII | flickering glare of the undulatory reflection of the light
3217 I, XVI | great number were easily unearthed.~In the pursuit of lynxes
3218 I, XX | whole country in a weird, unearthly manner.~“It is more beautiful
3219 II, VIII | following her and looking about uneasily, caught hold of her hand,
3220 II, XII | it, it was dangerous for unencumbered pedestrians. Hobson and
3221 II, XVII | which would probably be very unequal, on account of the obstacles
3222 I, XXII | like a band of captives unexpectedly set free. They were, however,
3223 I, VII | Zones alike there are vast unexplored tracts which will long defy
3224 I, XVIII| besides, not altogether unfamiliar with those terrible winds
3225 II, XIV | bear, finding the postern unfastened, quietly pushed open the
3226 II, XVIII| inhabitants with it to the unfathomable depths of the ocean! Perhaps,
3227 II, X | and again, “but it is most unfavourable for us, and very much against
3228 II, IV | was proceeding further to unfold his views when cries for
3229 I, XV | blue, were sprinkled on the unfrequented beach, with grey and yellow
3230 II, XV | crevasses opened, and the unfrozen water flooded the surface
3231 I, XV | destination, and, having unharnessed the teams, they were left
3232 I, V | soft, so that they escaped unhurt. But what a disgrace for
3233 II, XII | surface of the sea, with any uniformity, and the snow which fell
3234 I, VII | last few days. Look at the uniformly grey hue of the heavens.
3235 I, X | the course of which was unimpeded by any natural barrier or
3236 I, VIII | find a native race as yet uninfluenced by contact with Europeans
3237 II, XIX | house, and were fortunately uninjured. The weather was cloudy,
3238 I, XVIII| and even cribbage became uninteresting. The last thought at night
3239 II, V | for the discovery of this unique spot.~Ah, Mac-Nab, you little
3240 I, XX | was not forgotten in the universal interchange of good wishes
3241 | unlikely
3242 II, VI | Hobson not to risk himself unnecessarily. To remember that he was
3243 I, XI | explorers. What he wanted was an unoccupied country, a deserted land,
3244 I, XIV | Hope, bringing with them an unpleasant-looking animal, which neither Mrs
3245 I, V | Esquimaux wield them with unrivalled skill !”~“But you are not
3246 I, V | than the sledge; for it unrolled with an ominous hiss, and
3247 II, IX | about her with a dreamy unsatisfied expression, presently, however,
3248 I, XVIII| Thomas Black screwed and unscrewed his instruments, and looked
3249 II, VIII | replied Madge with her usual unshaken confidence. “We have already
3250 I, X | much-longed-for passage. But they were unsuccessful, and returned to England
3251 I, VII | to be traversed was very unsuitable for sledges. The ground
3252 I, III | with grey, his beard was untrimmed, his eyes were closed, and
3253 I, XXIII| profound secret, as Hobson was unwilling to render his companions
3254 II, XX | agreed that it would be unwise to abandon the island before
3255 I, XIX | such a subterfuge was unworthy of a respectable fox.”~About
3256 I, XXII | rebound than a vertical upheaval, which made the house lean
3257 I, VII | convulsion had evidently upheaved the enormous blocks strewn
3258 II, VII | through it all the two men, upheld by the consciousness of
3259 I, IX | behind the boat a huge wave upreared its foam-crowned crest,
3260 II, XV | the ice does not proceed upwards but downwards. The danger
3261 I, III | frost-bitten patches. It was urgently necessary to restore the
3262 I, XIII | adapted to the multifarious uses to which it would be put.
3263 I, XVIII| NIGHT.~The long night was ushered in by a violent storm. The
3264 I, XVIII| tempest replaced the silence usually so complete in these high
3265 I, XIII | matter.~The principal cooking utensil was a large iron furnace,
3266 I, XIII | suggested that they should utilise the shells with which the
3267 I, XIII | sledges were ingeniously utilised to form a provisional encampment.~
3268 II, XV | early in April, and their utility, or rather their vital importance,
3269 I, XVI | sir,” said Jaspar Hobson, vainly endeavouring to conceal
3270 I, II | was a positive passion. Vair and the furs of Siberian
3271 I, XVII | ramparts and buttresses, valleys, and crevasses, mountains
3272 I, XVI | Exhibition of 1851, and valued at £3400 sterling.~Several
3273 I, VI | plenty of time to pick up the vanquished.”~“Have these wapitis a
3274 II, XXIII| pressure of the air, the water vaporised on the surface of the ice
3275 I, V | Circle, there is little variation in the temperature; it does
3276 I, XVII | regulated according to the variations of the external temperature,
3277 I, XV | pummice-stone, and lustrous variegated obsidian. Tall cliffs, rising
3278 II, IV | weight of floating ice, varies considerably according to
3279 I, VIII | feathered tribe. Several varieties of ducks, uttering their
3280 I, VI | These prismatic effects vary at every change of our position.
3281 II, XVII | assigned to it in maps when it vas united to the American continent.
3282 I, XV | improvement upon the tactics of Vauban and Cormontaigne), and knew
3283 II, IV | ice had formed a kind of vault above the water, and of
3284 I, XVI | pairs in the “holes” or “vaults” they had hollowed out near
3285 I, I | that of the ham and stuffed veal of the old world. The sharp
3286 II, IX | minutes, and the fearful gale, veering round to the south-east,
3287 I, VII | that a certain amount of vegetative force is retained even in
3288 I, IV | readiness. These primitive vehicles consisted of strong but
3289 I, XXII | pity they were gone, for vengeance could not be wreaked upon
3290 I, XXIII| amongst t others Mercury and Venus, began to appear, and some
3291 I, XXIII| into them, established, verified, and controlled as they
3292 I, XI | latitude and longitude, and verifying his position by the map,
3293 II, XIX | low latitudes, and vice versa in early springs.~Now the
3294 I, XVIII| geographical degrees. The vertex of this arch was situated
3295 I, XVIII| to fall horizontally but vertically. The Lieutenant was obliged
3296 I, XII | least one compatriot of Vestris amongst them, had recently
3297 | via
3298 II, XIX | comparatively low latitudes, and vice versa in early springs.~
3299 I, I | between them, which would be victorious? Briareus without a doubt !~
3300 I, XV | plunged into the sea.~The victory was an easy one; the five
3301 II, XIII | incident; but during the long vigil which he kept, Hobson fancied
3302 I, XVIII| superintendence, and perpetual vigilance was necessary to prevent
3303 I, XVI | Barnett; “is this a deserted village?”~“Oh no,” replied the Lieutenant, “
3304 I, XXIII| objects became a kind of vinous red. A gloomy twilight set
3305 II, XIV | later his skin assumed a violet hue, then it became white
3306 II, XXIII| nearer the land, but it was visibly melting, and sinking rapidly;
3307 II, XII | before her mind’s eye rose a vision of the caravan of men and
3308 I, XXIII| our presentiments. I am no visionary. Twenty times in my soldier’
3309 I, XIX | mistake.~There was no fear of visits from Indian hunters or Canadians
3310 II, XIX | breathing was difficult in the vitiated air deficient as it was
3311 I, V | Barnett, carried away by her vivid imagination. She could see
3312 II, XVII | brightly, and as the ice-field vividly reflected their light, it
3313 I, XX | and the gale roared like a volley of musketry. Hobson took
3314 II, IX | her own name. Had Kalumah voluntarily sought the floating island,
3315 I, V | to the Lieutenant and his voluntary companions in exile.~On
3316 II, XXIII| but there were plenty of volunteers. The edges of the ice were
3317 I, IV | exceeding forty pounds. Pikes, voracious lobes, a sort of charr or
3318 II, XVIII| Heaven for the great mercy vouchsafed, which was doubtless heard
3319 II, XVII | heard the noise, for, in vulgar language, it was loud enough
3320 II, XII | as large as a condor or a vulture. In the midst of the icebergs
3321 I, XV | walrus had collected, either waddling about on their clumsy webbed
3322 I, III | already a foot deep; he waded through it, although half-blinded
3323 I, XXI | the fearful conflict was waged in profound darkness.~In
3324 II, IV | was hushed, not even the wail of a sea bird broke upon
3325 I, XVIII| were standing up to their waists helped to sustain them against
3326 II, V | couples had private rooms walled off, so that the large house
3327 I, XIV | worthy disciple of Isaak Walton was perhaps his only equal.
3328 I, IV | fifteen miles an hour.~The wardrobe of the travellers consisted
3329 I, XVI | The beavers’ skins were warehoused and labelled as “parchments”
3330 II, X | hand, “thank you for your warm-hearted words. But I have had some
3331 I, XX | The little baby had tine warmest corner, and its cradle was
3332 I, XIV | reindeer, which are exceedingly wary. How patiently they would
3333 II, XXIII| from it, and the waves were washing over it, sweeping off the
3334 I, XVI | described in the romances of Washington Irving, whose competition
3335 I, XVII | which would prevent any waste of the internal warmth,
3336 I, XVI | long since noted by the watchful Lieutenant, on a tributary
3337 I, X | they hunted the otters and water-birds day and night.~For the next
3338 II, XXI | lockers for the provisions and water-casks, all firmly fixed to the
3339 I, XXII | thousands of ducks and other water-fowl which began to teem upon
3340 II, VII | wore impervious boots and water-proof cloaks well pulled in at
3341 I, XIII | invaluable in rendering vessels water-tight; only as a substitute for
3342 I, XIV | and workmen alike, many waterfowl figured in the bill of fare.
3343 II, IV | reverse is the case in running waters-the ice forming at the bottom,
3344 II, VI | sometimes whirled a huge waterspout of extraordinary dimensions;
3345 II, VII | formed one of those fearful waterspouts which can overthrow houses,
3346 I, XVIII| drifts whirled past like waterspouts-the snow seemed no longer to
3347 I, XVI | cemented together and rendered watertight with the clayey mud of the
3348 II, XV | confidence never seemed to waver, she was as ever the kind
3349 II, VII | furious breakers shook the weakened ground beneath their feet.
3350 II, XIX | did. It was but a moment’s weakness. Be yourself, dear girl;
3351 II, V | princesses, or the most wealthy ladies. Those not in the
3352 II, XV | Madge’s advice, put off weaning him for some little time,
3353 II, XII | immediately lowering the weapon, he said to Mrs Barnett—~“
3354 II, XV | times a day with the same wearisome tale, but he would not listen
3355 I, XVI | the Arctic Ocean.~All the weasels and martens are very difficult
3356 II, XV | or “pancake” ice, in all weathers, through snow or rain, and
3357 I, XXI | which the carpenter Mac-Nab wedged firmly in, leaving a narrow
3358 I, VIII | clothed with a sort of whitish weed, which perfumed the air
3359 II, VI | joy at noticing some long weeds floating on the top of the
3360 II, XXII | They yielded, some of them weeping like children.~The awful
3361 I, XIV | resembling swan’s down. They weigh from ten to fifteen pounds
3362 I, XIX | creature, six feet long, weighing six hundred pounds, and
3363 II, X | crystals showed a tendency to weld themselves together, but
3364 II, XXI | affected their physical well-being. They were, however, looking
3365 I, XX | masters and the ladies round a well-filled board, on which figured
3366 II, XIII | waggon sledges. Silently they wended their way towards Cape Michael,
3367 II, XIX | do not betray that I have wept.”~“Of course not,” said
3368 I, XV | she supposed that there were-in spite of all that had been
3369 II, II | wandering island was moving in a westerly direction, borne along by
3370 I, XI | which Cape Parry is the westernmost point. There at the foot
3371 II, III | Arctic Ocean is frequented by whales and chacholots, but you
3372 II, II | out,” said Mrs Barnett, “whereabouts in the Polar Sea we are
3373 I, XV | on account of the oil; of which-being in excellent condition-they
3374 I, XVI | distinguished; let the fox belong to whichever of us really killed it.”~
3375 I, XXII | in. It was only between whiles that any outdoor work could
3376 I, XIV | and patience with which he whipped the water and cast his s
3377 II, XIII | given not to speak above a whisper, and not to excite the dogs
3378 II, XXII | course.~“If it does see us,” whispered Hobson in Long’s ear, “it
3379 I, VIII | and calls, eider ducks, whistlers spotted redshanks, “old
3380 I, XI | immunity of the quadrupeds. White-headed eagles, huge birds with
3381 I, XVI | lustrous black dotted with white-is much sought after in England
3382 I, XVII | Here they looked like the whitened ruins of a town with curtains
3383 I, VIII | was clothed with a sort of whitish weed, which perfumed the
3384 I, XVI | would suppose blue, but whitish-brown; its great price-six times
3385 I, XVII | first to freeze over; large whitish-grey patches appeared here and
3386 I, XVII | and supplied fresh and wholesome meat. Polar or Arctic hares
3387 II, VIII | fresh storm, this gulf would widen more and more.~Just as Hobson
3388 I, I | traveller. She had been a widow for fifteen years, and her
3389 I, XIX | feet deep, and of a uniform width of ten feet. A see-saw plank,
3390 II, XVIII| to be effective. The men wielded the pickaxe whilst the women
3391 I, V | the latter dexterously wielding the long Esquimaux whip,
3392 I, I | long afterwards in their wigwams.~Endless were the compliments
3393 II, XXI | especially the wolves, who rushed wildly towards the factory, and
3394 I, XVIII| soldiers, who would have willingly laid down their lives in
3395 I, III | fresh assurances of his willingness to serve him, the Captain
3396 I, XIV | tail. The Indians call them willow-fowl; but to a European sportsman
3397 I, XXI | his great head against the window-pane and an ominous growl was
3398 II, XII | scurvy-grass, rum, spirits of wine, for making warm drinks, &
3399 I, II | Canada, on Lakes Athapeskow, Winnipeg, Superior, Methye, Buffalo,
3400 I, V | the sufferings involved in wintering only thirty degrees at the
3401 I, XVIII| events of this northern wintering-the weather, the temperature,
3402 I, VI | Captain Craventy had shown his wisdom in choosing two such intelligent
3403 I, XI | but the Lieutenant had wisely forbidden all hunting of
3404 II, XX | This was certainly the wisest course to take. In eight
3405 II, II | miles from the fort, not wishing Marbre and Sabine to come
3406 I, XVIII| animate body, and the sudden withdrawal of the same from it, as
3407 II, I | afraid the bounty would be withheld.~“You needn’t be afraid,”
3408 II, XV | she ought the better to withstand the shocks of the floating
3409 I, XVIII| wild rugged climates could witness these strange phenomena
3410 I, XVII | endured for the sake of witnessing such a spectacle. She could
3411 I, V | woman, frightened out of her wits.~“Don’t be afraid, Mrs Joliffe,
3412 I, III | a true descendant of the witty La Fontaine’s savant who
3413 I, XIV | fighting with a fox or a wolf for its spoils. Its chief
3414 I, V | connecting Lakes Slave and Wolmsley, which was, however, still
3415 I, V | as yet seen none of the wonders it contains. But wait until
3416 I, XXI | once more to get to the wood-shed, when the bears had been
3417 II, XVIII| the shaft by means of the wood-work.~The Lieutenant and the
3418 I, XVI | mocassins, and a sash of checked woollen stuff round the waist, from
3419 II, IV | kind of cavern where I was working-the ice did not touch the water.
3420 I, XIII | readily be supposed, finished workmanship was riot necessary for such
3421 I, I | cardboard—the motto of the world-famous Hudson’s Bay Company—~“PROPELLE
3422 II, X | fellows much anxiety and worry already, let us keep silent
3423 II, IV | would have been a pity, wouldn’t it, madam?”~“A very great
3424 I, III | was literally frozen. The wrappers and furred mantles, in which
3425 I, V | Paulina,” replied Madge, wrapping her furs more closely round
3426 I, III | traveller, well covered with wraps, rose on his elbow, and
3427 I, XXII | for vengeance could not be wreaked upon them.~The month of
3428 I, XIX | Long, pointing to a grey wreath of smoke curling out of
3429 II, XX | offing like the spars of a wrecked vessel. This was the worst
3430 I, VI | moment’s pause. Like two wrestlers struggling for a prize which
3431 II, XXIII| and on it the despairing wretches, with the few animals left
3432 I, XVI | difficult to catch; they wriggle their long supple bodies
3433 II, XIV | also taught her to read and write in that language. There
3434 I, XVI | fellow-hunters by the great American writer; a blanket loosely arranged
3435 II, XIV | all been taught reading, writing, and arithmetic either in
3436 II, XX | worst evil the storm had wrought, and would compromise the
3437 II, V | you little knew how you wrung the heart of your master
3438 II, XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV~CONCLUSION.~It was on the
3439 II, XII | the midst of the icebergs yawned apparently huge black tunnels,
3440 I, XIX | or fifty years old, with yellowish-red complexions, sharp teeth,
3441 I, IV | swift and intelligent dogs, yoked two and two, and controlled
3442 I, I | was an Englishwoman from Yorkshire, possessed of some fortune,
3443 I, I | born. His childhood and youth were spent at the foot of
3444 I, VII | Loanga to the mouth of the Zambesi. We are, therefore, nearer
3445 I, XVIII| certainly, madam, 4° below zero-what is that at this latitude?”~“
3446 I, XIV | willows. They belong, as their zoological name implies, to the partridge
3447 I, XIV | strange quadruped is called by zoologists, lives in hollow trees or
3448 I, XIII | surf, and with seaweed or zoophytes, mostly sea-urchins and
3449 I, XIX | to the race of Esquimaux, °` or eaters of raw flesh,”
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