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共 43 段- HOURS OF ICY TORTURE--A FRIGID SUMMER STORM IN THE BERG-DRIV
- In any case, I did not consider as important any testimony o
- I recall sitting alone one gloomy winter day. Opening a pape
- As we cut the shimmering waters, I felt, as it were, the wie
- Resuming our journey, a snow squall soon frosted the deck of
- Beyond and above me I visioned the unimaginable, blinding wh
- Were it not for their extraordinary eyesight, such work, und
- Soon the wolfish dogs ahead began to shout the chorus of the
- Pushing the sledges upon which rested the harpoon, the lance
- The box-house in which I lived was amply comfortable. It did
- My heart was high. I was about to start on the quest which h
- I could detect only some dark specks on the snow, which look
- We had been advancing towards a group of musk oxen for more
- The dogs curled up and went to sleep without a call, as if t
- In low temperature new ice forms rapidly. This offers an obs
- The door of the snowhouse is now kicked out--all tumble abou
- In this mid-Polar basin the ice does not readily separate. I
- No torment could be worse than that never-ceasing rush of ic
- Over the sparkling snows the post-midnight sun glowed like a
- These figures do not give the exact position for the normal
- We loved the creatures, and admired their superb brute stren
- We were not more than ten miles beyond land when Ah-we-lah l
- The berg lost its erratic movement, and soon settled in a fi
- Now followed a long run of famine luck. We searched land and
- Harpoons and lances were next finally completed, and with th
- Deprived as we were of most of the usual comforts of life, m
- In the dull days of blankness which followed, few incidents
- Staggering along one day, we suddenly saw a bear track. Thes
- At Etah was a big cache which had been left a year before by
- They told me that dinners and receptions awaited me at Copen
- I was ignorant of much that was said about me. I had no one
- Meanwhile, many apparently trivial accusations against me we
- At about the same time a group of seven or eight Eskimos wer
- Still all these combined underhanded efforts failed to reach
- The real difficulty is that, in the haste to floor rival cla
- How did he come by them? Why does he have them? What were th
- [16] After trying to explain this impression fifteen months
- [27] While this book was going through the press, several ch
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- A critical examination of Peary's book not only reveals a re
- For three years I have sought in various ways to bring about
- Here in Illinois press stories of improper conduct implicati
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