Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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MOOSE HUNTING—VUKON BITER. INDIAIN SUMMER ENCAMPMENTS. 281 or lounging on fheir elbows to watch tlie frizzling ofa ricli marrow bone, the customary perquisite of theirlabors. Women were lighting or tending the fires, overwhich were suspended rows of thinly sliced meat, somescreaming to thievish dogs, and others with stilllouder screams, endeavoring to drown the shrill criesof their children, who, swaddled and unable to stir,were half suffocated with the smoke; while to com-plete the scene, eight or ten boys at play, were turn-ing themselves over and under some white barkcanoes like so many land dolphins. Their happinesswas at the full; at that moment they were withoutcare, enjoying themselves according to their natureand capacity. Is human happiness ever much morethan this ? On the 29th of August, Back reached one of thetributaries of the Great Fish River, and yielding tothat pleasing emotion which discoverers, in the firstbound of their transport, may be pardoned for indul-ging, he

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