Library of Universal Adventure by Sea and Land; Including Original Narratives and Authentic Stories of Personal Prowess and Peril in All the Waters ... from the Year 79 A.D. to the Year 1888 A. D. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... under no discipline--they had been under none since Captain Hall's death. They loaded one boat full with all sorts of things, much of which was really trash, but which they would carry. We were going to drag the boat across the floe to where we could take the water. I went on, and told the Esquimaux to follow me across the floe. I had not gone more than two hundred yards before a hurricane burst upon me. I nevertheless persevered and got across the ice, and when I got to the lead of water saw that the natives had not followed me! Whether they thought too much of their property, or whether they were afraid of the storm, I do not know; but the cook had followed me, and when he saw they had not come he ran back for them. The men still murmured about getting into the boat which they had dragged over so overloaded, but I would have shoved off as long as I had the strength to do it; but when I looked for the oars there were but three, and there was no rudder! I had told them to prepare the boat while I was gone to look for a lead, and this was the way they had done it. I was, therefore, compelled to haul the boat back on the ice. I went back towards the centre of the floe and put up a little canvas tent, and then, eating a little frozen meat'and a little ship-bread, I was glad enough to creep in, pull a musk-ox skin over me, and get a little rest, drifting in the darkness I knew not whither; for I had had no rest since the night of the 14th--the night before we parted with the ship. All of the afternoon of the loth I was at work, and all of that night I walked the floe. All the next day I was going and coming across the ice, and laboring with the men And boats, trying to work through the pack; and when night came the ice-floe proved a refreshing bed, where I sle...

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