This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...grin--"why then we camped, if there wasn't a house near. You don't suppose I could trail all over the country with that creature howling like mad; besides I didn't think myself there was any particular reason to drive so cursed fast." The three others whistled and looked at each other. Crazy, their eyes said, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...grin--"why then we camped, if there wasn't a house near. You don't suppose I could trail all over the country with that creature howling like mad; besides I didn't think myself there was any particular reason to drive so cursed fast." The three others whistled and looked at each other. Crazy, their eyes said, with a laugh--clean crazy--all for an Eskimo bit of goods.--"What next, Joe? go on." And Joe told all about his troubles on the journey, about Igluruk's waywardness, about the blamed uneven ice and the masses of soft snow. He told about blizzards so heavy and cutting that sledging was impossible against the wind and driving snow; he told of lashings that had to be repaired with the thermometer forty below, of dogs that gave up, of Eskimos he had met on the trail. He laughed till he choked at the thought. "Do you know what I said to all the Eskimos I met?" he asked his companions. "I told them Sakhawachiak had gone mad, and that he was coming along on a sledge and would demand food and dogs. But they'd have to look out, I told them, because this madness of his was catching--if only the madman caught their eyes and looked into them, they'd go mad themselves--and if they gave him grub or dogs or sledges or helped him at all they'd be clean done for. They'd have to keep him away from their houses and settlements, throw stones at him, and if he kept coming near, they were to shoot him, if they had any gun--that was the safest; but if they hadn't any, a harpoon was not so bad. "You bet he'll have a cheerful journey," Joe went on--"I've made it nice and hot for him--there isn't a single Eskimo between Icy Cape and Nuwuk that'll help him, you can be sure of that." This was something his mates...
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Add this copy of Frozen Justice to cart. $32.00, good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1922 by A.L. Burt Company.
