 | 1836 - Страниц: 604
...procure as much as supported them, and the starving Indians continued to flock to the white man's door. ' Our hall was in a manner filled with invalids and...afforded them a very insufficient protection against a temperament of 102° below the freezing point. The father torpid and despairing — the mother, with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - Страниц: 610
...the Indian.' — p. 210. « Our hall was in a manner filled with invalids and other stupidlydejected dejected beings, who, seated round the fire, occupied...insufficient protection against a temperature of 102° belmo the freezing point. The father torpid and despairing — the mother, with a hollow and sepulchral... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 1184
...Indian.'—p. 210. • Our hall was in a manner filled with invalids and other stupidly:,A1 dejected dejected beings, who, seated round the fire, occupied...very insufficient protection against a temperature of 103f below the freezing point. The father torpid add despairing—the mother, with a hollow and sepulchral... | |
 | 1850 - Страниц: 640
...dreary climes at every turn. We extract the following passage from Back's interesting journal : — Our hall was in a manner filled with invalids, and...very insufficient protection against a temperature of 103° below the freezing point (70° below zero.) The father, torpid and despairing — the mother,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - Страниц: 574
...which by the assistance of numerous workmen which Mr. M'Leod had assembled was speedily completed. " Our hall was in a manner filled with invalids and...against a temperature of 102° below the freezing point (70° below zero). The father torpid and despairing — the mother with a hollow and sepulchral wail,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - Страниц: 400
...was speedily completed. " Our hall was in a manner filled with invalids and other stupidly-dejected beings, who, seated round the fire, occupied themselves...against a temperature of 102° below the freezing point (70° below zero). The father torpid and despairing ; the mother with a hollow and sepulchral wail,... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - Страниц: 380
...who regarded the magnetic observations of Captain Back as the operation of "raising the devil." Their hall was in a manner filled with invalids and other...insufficient protection against a temperature of 102° bekne freezing point. " The father torpid and despairing ; the mother, with a hollow and sepulchral... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1851 - Страниц: 402
...Reliance, notwithstanding the constant persecutions of their dreaded enemies the sand-flies. Their hall was in a manner filled with invalids and other...insufficient protection against a temperature of 102° below freezing point. " The father torpid and despairing; the mother, with a hollow and sepulchral wail,... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1852 - Страниц: 424
...imploring look, but yet never uttered a complaint. At other times they would, seated round the fire, occupy themselves in roasting and devouring small bits of...insufficient protection against a temperature of 102° below freezing point. The sufferings of the poor Indians at this period are described as frightful. " Famine... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - Страниц: 1074
...imploring look, but yet never uttered a complaint. At other times they would, seated round the fire, occupy themselves in roasting and devouring small bits of...insufficient protection against a temperature of 102° below freezing point. The sufferings of the poor Indians at this period are described as frightful. " Famine... | |
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At other times they would, seated round the fire, occupy themselves in roasting and devouring small bits of their reindeer garments, which, even when entire, afforded them a very insufficient protection against a temperature of 102° below freezing point. 
