 | William Desborough Cooley - 1830 - 386 Seiten
...persons, found themselves under the necessity of passing the winter in this dreary and inhospitable spot. Luckily for them, the drift-wood on the shore...stones to their feet, and wrapping themselves in double fox-skin coats, they were just ahle to keep themselves from being frozen. But in searching for drift-wood... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1839 - 948 Seiten
...the materials for a house. They calmly prepared to meet the difficulties of their situation ; and tbe journal of their sufferings is rendered doubly interesting...stones to their feet, and wrapping themselves in double foxskin coats, they were just able to keep them, selves from being frozen. But in searching for drift-wood,... | |
 | James Grant - 1852 - 390 Seiten
...They saw the rays of the Sun for the last time on the 4th of November. Total darkness then set in, and the cold increased until it became almost too intense for endurance. They were scarcely able to keep themselves from freezing by means of great fires, heated stones applied... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 322 Seiten
...expedition, and Barentz prepared to pass the winter in that dread abode of darkness and desolation. On the 4th of November, the last rays of the sun forsook them, and with these it was remarked as a singular fact, that the bears disappeared, and the white foxes came... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 310 Seiten
...expedition, and Barentz prepared to pass the winter in that dread abode of darkness and desolation. On the 4th of November, the last rays of the sun forsook them, and with these it was remarked as a singular fact, that the bears disappeared, and the white foxes came... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...expedition, and Barentz prepared to pass the winter in that dread abode of darkness and desolation. On the 4th of November, the last rays of the sun forsook them, and with these it was remarked as a singular fact, that the bears disappeared, and the white foxes came... | |
 | English explorers - 1875 - 680 Seiten
...describe in adequate language, the feelings of men thus doomed to an abode of darkness,desolation,and intense cold, where bears and foxes are the only inhabitants...stones to their feet, and wrapping themselves in double fox-skin coats, they were just able to keep themselves from being frozen. But in searching for drift-wood... | |
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They calmly prepared to meet the difficulties of their situation ; and the journal of their sufferings is rendered doubly interesting by their patience and resignation. It is difficult to conceive, and impossible to describe in adequate language, the... 