... told that these were the ribs of whales.” Tales of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. “It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these... ...e outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal. We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time,... ...he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inser... ...re than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen have long pursued ... ...s to the inspection of a shivering world ninety six facsimiles of magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I h... ...ul that he should be found at home, immersed to his lips for life in those Arctic waters! where, when seamen fall overboard, they are sometimes found,... ...ble souls to see. As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months’ night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so A...

...loud, and individual flakes could not be seen. The blast smelt of icebergs, arctic seas, whales, and white bears, carrying the snow so that it licked t...

... remained lasted until three o’clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land. As darkness came ... ...wn that stream to where it effected its junction with the Yukon just under the Arctic Circle. Here stood the old Hudson’s Bay Company fort; and here w... ...he dogs. “I say, this is a pretty warm reception for a poor lone wolf from the Arctic,” the master said, while White Fang calmed down under his caress... ...her. “I told Weedon that I was afraid the warm climate would not agree with an Arctic animal.” “He’s trying to speak, I do believe,” Beth announced. ...

... 1824 Some are home-sick — some two or three, Their third year on the Arctic Sea — Brave Captain Lyon tells us so — Spite of those charming E...

...th warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and tr... ...nted way of things. Spitz was a practised fighter. From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all... ...but never had they seen a sled with so many as fourteen dogs. In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one ... ...hland had fallen away from the three people. Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and ...

...lone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy...

...or scrutiny. He was a striking per sonage, and a most picturesque one, in his Arctic dress of wool and fur. Standing six foot two or three, with prop... ...ed: “And biff! down you come. Oh, great medicine men! You go Fort Yukon, I go Arctic City, — twenty five sleep, — big string, all the time, — I catch ... ...our; good by.’ You look and catch plenty soda. All the time you Fort Yukon, me Arctic City. Hi yu medicine man!” Ruth smiled so ingenuously at the fai... ... for the word, the spirit for the letter. When the world rang with the tale of Arctic gold, and the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men,... ...in. Skirting the shores of the bay, where the Mackenzie disem bogues into the Arctic Ocean, they entered the mouth of the Little Peel River. Then beg... ... joined the Yukon where that mighty highway of the North countermarches on the Arctic Circle. But they had lost in the race with winter, and one day t... ...other notions concerning the course of the river, believing it to flow into the Arctic. “Then the Yukon empties into Bering Sea?” he asked. “I do not k... ... unknown upper reaches of the Koyukuk, the strange stream which ended here its arctic travels and merged its waters with the muddy Yukon flood. Somewhe... ... for the better part of a year. After that he poled up the Koyokuk to deserted Arctic City, and later came drifting back, from camp to Bˆ atard 145 c...

...m and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow birds. But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hire...

...eep calling unto deep,—and the storms heap themselves together into one huge Arctic whirlpool: thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire fr... ...intest changes. “Silence as of death,” writes he; “for Midnight, even in the Arctic latitudes, has its character: nothing but the granite cliffs ruddy...