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Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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The beast was carried back in triumph,and all hands fed as if they could never know famineagain. *^ I had directed Hans to endeavor to engage Myouk,if he could, to assist him in hunting. A most timelythought: for the mornings work made them re-ceive the invitation as a great favor. Hans got hisshare of the meat, and returned to the brig accompa-nied by the boy, who is now under my care on board.This imp—for he is full of the devil—has always hada relishing fancy for the kicks and cuffs with which Irecall the forks and teaspoons when they get astray;and, to tell the truth, he always takes care to earnthem. He is very happy, but so wasted by hungerthat the work of fattening him will be a costly one.Poor little fellow! born to toil and necessity and peril;stern hunter as he already is, the lines of his face arestill soft and child-like. March 25. Refraction with all its magic is backupon us; the ^Delectable Mountains* appear again;and, as the sun has now worked his way to the margin
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THE WALRUS HUNJEPw THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS. 593 of the northwestern horizon, we can see the blazestealing out from the black portals of these upliftedhills, as if there were truly beyond it a celestial gate. I do not know what preposterous working of brainled me to compare this northwestern ridge to Bun-yans Delectable Mountains; but there was a time onlyone year ago, when I used to gaze upon them with aneye of real longing. Very often, when they rose phan-tom-like into the sky, I would plan schemes by whichto reach them, work over mentally my hard pilgrim-age across the ice, and my escape from DoubtingCastle to this scene of triumph and reward. Onceupon your coasts, 0 inaccessible mountains, I wouldreach the Northern Ocean and gather together the rem-nants of poor Franklins company. These would be tome the orchards and vineyards and running fountains.The ^Lord of the Hill would see in me a pilgrim.^ Leaning upon our staves, as is common with weary pil-grims when they stand to talk w

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