 | Christian literature for children - 1854 - 778 pages
...so uniformly steep that we had to turn them by a considerable SEPT. 1] JUVENILE MISSIONARY RECORD. deviation from our direct course; others that we forced...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading belt of the sledge-lines ; and I began to feel certain of reaching our half-way station of... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - Grinnell Expedition - 1856 - 524 pages
...sledge was topheavy with its load : the maimed men could not bear VoL. I.— 13 194 SUDDEN SUCCUMBING. to be lashed down tight enough to secure them against...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading belt of the sledge-lines ; and I began to feel certain of reaching our halfway station of the... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - Grinnell Expedition - 1857 - 490 pages
...Besides all this, the sledge was topheavy with its load: the maimed men could not bear VOL. I.—13 to be lashed down tight enough to secure them against...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading belt of the sledge-lines; and I began to feel certain of reaching our halfway station of the... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - Readers - 1864 - 444 pages
...uniformly steep that we had to turn around them by a considerable deviation from our direct course. 8. Notwithstanding our caution in rejecting every superfluous...reached the new floes* before we were absolutely weary. 9. I now began to feel certain of reaching our half-way station of the day before, where we had left... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...spaces, too, were generally choked with light snow, hiding the openings between the ice fragments. They were fearful traps to disengage a limb from,...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading belt of the sledge lines ; and I began to feel certain of reaching our half-way station of... | |
 | 1872 - 504 pages
...disengage a limb from, for every man knew that a fracture or a sprain even, would cost him his life. We made, by vigorous pulls and lifts, nearly a mile an hour, bat we were still nine miles from our half-way station, when, almost without premonition, we all became... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 pages
...the sledge. Although they left all superfluous articles behind, the load was eleven hundred pounds. " We made by vigorous pulls and lifts nearly a mile an hour. Almost without premonition, we all became aware of an alarming failure of our energies. I was of course... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...rejecting every superfluous burden, the weight, including bags and tent, was eleven hundred pounds. very cheering. We made, by vigorous pulls and lifts,...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading belt of the sledge lines; and I began to feel certain of reaching our halfway station of the... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - Readers - 1884 - 524 pages
...rejecting every superfluous burden, the weight, including bags and tent, was eleven hundred pounds. very cheering. We made, by vigorous pulls and lifts,...Ohlsen, restored "by hope, walked steadily at the leading belt of the sledge lines; and I began to feel certain of reaching' our half-way station of... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 548 pages
...Notwithstanding our caution in rejecting every superfluous burden, the weight, including bags and tents, was eleven hundred pounds. And yet our march for the...sustained the trial admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hopo, walked steadily at the leading-belt of the sledge-lines, and I began to feel certain of reaching... | |
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They were fearful traps to disengage a limb from, for every man knew that a fracture, or a sprain even, would cost him his life. Besides all this, the sledge was top-heavy with its load: the maimed men could not bear to be lashed down tight enough to... 
