 | 1858 - 788 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1854 - 778 Seiten
...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...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 the day before, where... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 Seiten
...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...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 - 1857 - 490 Seiten
...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...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 day before, where... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 Seiten
...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...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 day before, where... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 Seiten
...that a fracture, or a sprain even, would cost him his life. Beside all this, the sledge was top-heavy with its load; the maimed men could not bear to be...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading-belt of the sledgelines ; and I began to feel certain of reaching our half-way station of the... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 Seiten
...that a fracture, or a sprain even, would cost him his life. Beside all this, the sledge was top-heavy with its load ; the maimed men could not bear to be...admirably. Ohlsen, restored by hope, walked steadily at the leading-belt of the sledgelines ; and I began to feel certain of reaching our half-way station of the... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 444 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 504 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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 day before, where we had left our tent But we were still nine miles from it, when, almost without premonition,... 
