 | 1857 - 894 sider
...hundred miles, whose sympathy is on our side." "An Arctic night and an Arctic * day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." ELISHA KENT KANE. 359 Except on Spitzbergen no Christians are known to have passed a winter so near... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 sider
...fighting the battle of life at disadvantage, and that an Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world. "March 13, Monday. — Since January, we have been working at the sledges and other preparations for... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 sider
...Esquimaux dogs. " An Arctie night and an Arctic day," Dr. Kane emphatically remarks, " age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." Sometimes, in their excursions over the ice, the men had to drag the sledge, and flounder through snow-drifts... | |
 | 1857 - 920 sider
...Commander, as he looked at them, might well feel that " an arctic night and an arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." The month of March proved intensely cold. For several days the mean temperature was 46 degrees 30 minutes... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 sider
...Esquimaux dogs. "An Arctic night and an Arctic day," Dr. Kane emphatically remarks, " age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." Sometimes, in their excursions over the ice, the men had to drag the sledge, and flounder through snow-drifts... | |
 | Sir John Leslie, Hugh Murray, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1860 - 696 sider
...fighting the battle of life at disadvantage, and that an Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." 534 SECOND GRINNELL EXPEDITION, i853-4. CHAP. xiv. This record of daily routine in their Arctic home... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 sider
...Esquimaux dogs "An Arctic night and an Arctic day," Dr. Kane emphatically remarks, " age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." Sometimes, in their excursions over the ice, the men had to drag the sledge, and flounder through snow-drifts... | |
 | 1872 - 504 sider
...fighting the tattle of life at disadvantage, and that an Arctic night and an Arctic day age & man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world." One of the most thrilling parts of the book is the account given of the rescue °t an advance party.... | |
 | Waldemar Christopher Brøgger, Nordahl Rolfsen - 1896 - 488 sider
...fighting the battle of life at disadvantage, and that an Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world.' ' And with the cold and the darkness comes disease — frostbites, tetanus, scurvy — and then death,... | |
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An Arctic night and an Arctic day," Dr. Kane emphatically remarks, " age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world. 
