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. 1883 Excerpt: ...At about eleven o'clock on the third morning of the great gale, as it was nearing sunrise, one of the sailors, who had gone out of the cavern to the drift heaps for wood for our fire, heard a dog bark and howl at no very great distance up the river. Thinking it might be an Esquimaux team, this sailor and one of the ...
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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. 1883 Excerpt: ...At about eleven o'clock on the third morning of the great gale, as it was nearing sunrise, one of the sailors, who had gone out of the cavern to the drift heaps for wood for our fire, heard a dog bark and howl at no very great distance up the river. Thinking it might be an Esquimaux team, this sailor and one of the others, who still had a little strength left, went hastily up the river on the ice, shouting as they hobbled forward. "' Less than a half a mile above they saw the three dogs, emaciated and shivering in the lee of a crag which overhung the frozen stream. They had been unhitched from the sledge, which lay in the snow close at hand, while partially behind a bowlder, off which he seemed to have slid, was the dead body of a young Esquimaux frozen and stiff. "' In his rigid fingers he still clasped a knife, with which he seemed to have been trying to open a case of meat, probably to feed the dogs. The hungry creatures had torn open the sacking, and gnawed nearly all the cases, but had not been able to break them open.' "Capt. H at once concluded that Tomsen had reached some settlement, and that this sledge was coming to their relief. And although Tallook had come so near, yet in the storm and darkness he had missed finding them. "The captain says they could not have held out two days longer, and it was four days before they had so far recruited their strength with the supplies as to be able to set off. Then, as the dogs knew the way home, they had only to let them go and follow them. And so this young hero sacrificed his own life to save these men of a different race and nation. Surely there died that night, amid the stormy crags of the Targut, not merely a half savage Esquimaux, but a brother of us all. And I have wondered whether...
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