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Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
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up the ice in places, and separated trie party from one oftheir boats, which was afterward recovered. The ice gradually increased in firmness, and CaptainTyson made another attempt to reach the shore, carryingevery thing in the boats, and dragging them along on their. 530 SCIENCE RECORD. keels ; but the rough and jagged ice stove them in. Hesucceeded, about the first of November, 1872, in gettingabout half way to shore ; but stormy weather set in again,broke up the ice, and set the floe on which his party was
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encamped adrift to the southward. For many days, theysaw no land, the bad weather continuing nearly the wholeof November. The party consisted of ten white men and nine Es-quimaux, of whom two were women and five children. GEOGRAPHY. 531 They built snow huts, and made themselves as comforta-ble as they could under the circumstances. The huts werebuilt in Esquimaux fashion, by piling up blocks of snowon a circular foundation, one layer above the other. Thestructure has the shape of an old-fashioned bee-hive, andis generally eight feet in diameter and six feet high. Ofcourse they could have no fire in their snow huts, or thesnow would melt; and they must have lived all the terri-ble period without fire, with the exception of the lampswhich they must have had for the purpose of cooking,using canvas or rope-yarn for wick, and the fat of the sealfor fuel. In the latter part of February, 1873, still afloat, theylived principally on birds, and in March they began tocatch seals. During the who

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  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Beach__Alfred_Ely__1826_1896
  • booksubject:Technology
  • booksubject:Industrial_arts
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Munn
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  • bookleafnumber:539
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