 | 1836 - 604 sider
...support the weaker. Mr King was unremitting in his care of those who required medical aid ; and often did I share my own plate with the children, whose...pleasure which it gave me to watch the emotions of those unfortunate little ones, as each received its spoonful of pemmican from my hand.' Captain Back... | |
 | George Back - 1836 - 774 sider
...support the weaker. Mr. King was unremitting in his care of those who required medical aid ; and often did I share my own plate with the children, whose...pleasure which it gave me to watch the emotions of those unfortunate little ones, as each received its spoonful of pemmican from my hand. Christmas-day... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 sider
...whose helpless state and piteous cries were peculiarly distressing ; compassion for the full grown may or may not be felt, but that heart must be cased...which is insensible to the cry of a child for food.' The lamentable situation in which they were placed, the scanty rations of pemmican to which the party... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 sider
...around ; such was one of the many groups that surrounded us.'—p. 218. ' Often,' says Captain Back, ' did I share my own plate with the children, whose...cries were peculiarly distressing ; compassion for the full grown may or may not t*e felt, but that heart must be cased in steel which is insensible to the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 sider
...the many groups that surrounded us.' — p. 218. ' Often,' says Captain Back, ' did I share my oivn plate with the children, whose helpless state and...cries were peculiarly distressing; compassion for the full grown may or may not be felt, but that heart must be cased in steel which is insensible to the... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 574 sider
...that were found in full vigour in the kind-hearted Back. " Often," said he, on another occasion, " did I share my own plate with the children, whose...which is insensible to the cry of a child for food." His own party had a full share of the general distress ; their rations were deplorably reduced ; but... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 400 sider
...said, that were found in full vigor in the kind-hearted Back. " Often," said he, on another occasion, " did I share my own plate with the children, whose...which is insensible to the cry of a child for food." His own party had a full share of the general distress ; their rations were deplorably reduced ; but... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 sider
...children, who, but for the Fort, would have perished from actual starvation. " Often," says Captain Back, " did I share my own plate with the children, whose...which is insensible to the cry of a child for food." Such sentiments as these do honour to the narrator, and his reward will not end with the blessings... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1851 - 402 sider
...children, who, but for the Fort, would have perished from actual starvation. " Often," says Captain Back, " did I share my own plate with the children, whose...which is insensible to the cry of a child for food." Such sentiments as these do honour to the narrator, and his reward will not end with the blessings... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1852 - 424 sider
...dogs, unpalatable as it was, was gladly received, and saved many from perishing. " Often," adds Back, " did I share my own plate with the children whose helpless...which is insensible to the cry of a child for food." At this critical juncture, Akaitcho made his appearance with an opportune supply of a little meat,... | |
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did I share my own plate with the children whose helpless state and piteous cries were peculiarly distressing ; compassion for the full-grown may, or may not, be felt, but that heart must be cased in steel which is insensible to the cry of a child for... 
