 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1833 - 476 pages
...thick snow-drift. Having boiled and eaten the remains of their old shoes, 230 TWO MEN LEFT IN THE SNOW. and every shred of leather which could be picked up, they set forward at nine over bleak hills separated by equally barren valleys. In this manner they journeyed till noon, not... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1841 - 376 pages
...continuing next day, besides being piercingly cold, filled the atmosphere with a thick snow-drift. Having boiled and eaten the remains of their old shoes,...which could be picked up, they set forward at nine over bleak hills separated by equally barren valleys. Nothing could exceed the joy of the Canadian... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1853 - 472 pages
...which continuing next day, besides being piercingly cold, filled the atmosphere with a thick snowdrift. Having boiled and eaten the remains of their old shoes,...which could be picked up, they set forward at nine over bleak hills separated by equally barren valleys. In this manner they journeyed till noon, not... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler, Robert Michael Ballantyne - 1854 - 528 pages
...which continuing next day, besides being piercingly cold, filled the atmosphere with a thick snowdrift. Having boiled and eaten the remains of their old shoes,...which could be picked up, they set forward at nine over bleak hills separated by equally barren valleys. In this manner they journeyed till noon, not... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 384 pages
...de roche upon his constitution, and Vaillant, from the same cause, was getting daily more emaciated. They only advanced six miles during the day, and at...vegetation except this eternal tripe de roche." The dreadful uncertainty, that for so many long years, hung over the fate of Franklin and his heroic comrades,... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1861 - 320 pages
...de roche upon his constitution, and Vaillant, from the same cause, was getting daily more emaciated. They only advanced six miles during the day, and at...slightest trace of vegetation except this eternal tripe de roehe." The dreadful uncertainty, that for so many long years, hung over the fate of Franklin and his... | |
 | Hugh Macmillan - 1874 - 464 pages
...de roche upon his constitution, and Vaillant, from the same cause, was getting daily more emaciated. They only advanced six miles during the day, and at...vegetation except this eternal tripe de roche.' The dreadful uncertainty, that for so many long years hung over the fate of Franklin and his heroic comrades,... | |
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... Franklin led the foremost men, that he might make them halt occasionally till the stragglers came up. Credit, however, one of their most active hunters, became lamentably weak, from the effects of tripe de roche upon his constitution, and Vaillant,... 