The Search for the North Pole1896 - 520 pages |
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The Search for the North Pole = Or, Life in the Great White World. A ... Evelyn Briggs 1862-1933 Baldwin No preview available - 2023 |
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April Arctic arrived August Baffin's Bay bear Bering boat Cape Cape Sabine Captain CHAPTER Chook-chees coast of Greenland command companions crew days later discovered discovery dogs drift east England Eskimos expedition exploration farther feet floe four foxes Franklin frozen glaciers Greely Grinnell Hall Harbor Hayes Hecla honor hundred huts icebergs Inlet Island journey July June Kane killed Kolyma Lady Franklin Bay Lancaster Sound land latitude longitude meat Melville Bay miles months mouth named Nansen natives night North Greenland northeast northward northwest passage Nova Zembla observed Parry party passed pemmican polar Polaris pole pounds provisions reached region reindeer Repulse Bay River Robeson Channel rock Ross sail says seal seen September ship shore Siberia Siberian Islands side sledge snow soon southward Spitzbergen Strait tent thence tion traveled trip vessel voyage west coast whale wind winter Wrangell Yakutsk
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Page 24 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Page 19 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 340 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 21 - Fired with a zeal peculiar, they defy • The rage and rigour of a polar sky, And plant successfully sweet Sharon's rose On icy plains, and in eternal snows.
Page 128 - I determined, however, as I was thoroughly convinced of the necessity of such a dreadful act, to take the whole responsibility upon myself; and immediately upon Michel's coming up, I put an end to his life by shooting him through the head with a pistol.
Page 193 - We had abundance of materials for building in the fragments of limestone that covered the beach, and we therefore erected a cairn of some magnitude, under which we buried a canister containing a record of the interesting fact, only regretting that we had not the means of constructing a pyramid of more importance, and of strength sufficient to withstand the assaults of time and of the Esquimaux. Had it been a pyramid as large as that of Cheops, I am not quite sure that it would have done more than...
Page 248 - Not wreck' d, nor stranded, yet for ever lost ; Its keel embedded in the solid mass ; Its glistening sails appear expanded glass ; The transverse ropes, with pearls enormous strung, The yards with icicles grotesquely hung. Wrapt in the topmast shrouds there rests a boy, His old seafaring father's only joy ; Sprung from a race of rovers, ocean born, Nursed at the helm, he trod dry land with scorn ; Through fourscore years from port to port he veer'd...
Page 153 - The collisions were so tremendous, that large masses were every instant broken away, and it was evident that the portion of ice which still divided the channel from the open ocean, would soon be completely destroyed.
Page 262 - From the mutilated state of many of the corpses, and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence.
Page 203 - In an instant we were in the vortex ; and, before we were aware, my boat was borne towards an isolated rock, which the boiling surge almost concealed. To clear it on the outside was no longer possible ; our only chance of safety was to run between it and the lofty eastern cliff. The word was passed, and every breath was hushed. A stream, which dashed down upon us over the brow of...