 | Charles John Andersson - 1856 - 612 sider
...spoiled ; our hair, as well as the wool on the sheep, ceased to grow, and our nails had become brittle aa glass. The flour lost more than eight per cent, of...in the fork of a tree, five feet from the ground! As usual, I rode ' Spring, ' and Mr. Schoneberg an ox lent to him by Mr. Rath; but, unfortunately,... | |
 | Charles John Andersson - 1857 - 480 sider
...fine lamina;. The lead dropped out of our pencils and our signal rockets were entirely spoiled; oar hair, as well as the wool on the sheep, ceased to...proportion." In another part of his narrative, this Our wagons, moreover, which, on leaving Scheppmansdorf, were in excellent order, were now quite infirm.... | |
 | Peter Egerton Warburton - 1875 - 354 sider
...the mischief wrought by this fiery atmosphere, for it was found to reduce the provisions alarmingly. The flour lost more than eight per cent, of its original weight ; the bran in which their store of bacon was packed became perfectly saturated, and weighed almost... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1889 - 576 sider
...well as the wool of their sheep, ceased to grow; and their nails became as brittle as glass. Their flour lost more than eight per cent, of its original weight, and other provisions in greater proportion. The mean of the thermometer during December, January, and February... | |
 | Agnes Giberne - 1893 - 460 sider
...the mischief wrought by this fiery atmosphere, for it was found to reduce the provisions alarmingly. The flour lost more than eight per cent, of its original weight; the bran in which their store of bacon was packed became perfectly saturated, and weighed almost as... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - 1896 - 428 sider
...instruments as well as our combs were split into fine lamina. The lead dropped out of our pencils, our signal rockets were entirely spoiled, our hair,...of its original weight, and the other provisions in a still greater proportion. The bran in which our bacon had been packed was perfectly saturated, and... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1914 - 1084 sider
...dropped out of our pencils. Our hair, as well as the sheep's wool, ceased to grow, and our nails became brittle as glass. The flour lost more than eight per cent, of its original weight. We were obliged to bury our wax candles. We found it difficult to write or draw, so rapidly did the... | |
 | Norman Duncan - 1915 - 350 sider
...dropped out of our pencils. Our hair, as well as the sheep's wool, ceased to grow, and our nails became brittle as glass. The flour lost more than eight per cent. of its original weight. We were obliged to bury our wax candles. We found it difficult to write or draw, so rapidly did the... | |
 | Gwenneth Williams - 1919 - 158 sider
...entirely spoiled; our hair, as well as the wool on the sheep, ceased to grow, and our nails had become .as brittle as glass. The flour lost more than eight per cent, of its weight, and the other provisions in a still greater proportion. . . . It was happy for us, therefore,... | |
 | Peter Egerton Warburton - 1875 - 354 sider
...the mischief wrought by this fiery atmosphere, for it was found to reduce the provisions alarmingly. The flour lost more than eight per cent, of its original weight ; the bran in which their store of bacon was packed became perfectly saturated, and weighed almost... | |
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... every screw in our boxes had been drawn, and the horn handles of our instruments as well as our combs, were split into fine laminae. The lead dropped out of our pencils, our... 