 | Edward Everett Hale - 1881 - 372 sider
...violent ; and we may be frozen to death, should we not chance to meet with the Reindeer Karaikees. For a long distance," added he, " there is no house,...so that we could not see a yard before us. For the f1rst part of our progress the sky above our heads was clear ; but this, after a while, became covered... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Sr.) - 1905 - 364 sider
...very violent; and we may be frozen to death, should we not chance to meet with the Reindeer Karaikees. For a long distance," added he, " there is no house,...the wind so violently that we could no longer keep our faces to windward, and were obliged to stop. As we had lost our way from the commencement, the... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1905 - 364 sider
...he said, were his hunting dogs, and could be relied on. We went on quite well, and briskly, until'a little before twelve o'clock, when, all of a sudden,...the wind so violently that we could no longer keep our faces to windward, and were obliged to stop. As we had lost our way from the commencement, the... | |
 | W. Bruce Lincoln - 2007 - 554 sider
...followed in two large groups in midwinter, fighting their way through violent Kamchatkan blizzards. "The wind began to blow with great violence, and,...atmosphere so that we could not see a yard before us," one traveler wrote of a similar storm a century later. "Clouds of sleet rolled like a dark smoke over... | |
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For a long distance," added he, " there is no house, or hut, or any sort of shelter : therefore order your people to push on, and keep close together; for if the Karaikees are here, they will be on the middle of the moor, but yet a considerable distance... 