Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog SledC. Scribner's sons, 1916 - 420 من الصفحات |
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ahead Alatna River Allakaket amongst arctic Arthur bank Bettles brought cabin camp Chandalar Chena Circle coast cold weather Coldfoot cooked Creek cross dog team Esquimaux Fairbanks farther feet fire fish flat Fort Yukon frozen gee pole gold gone grew grub hundred miles Iditarod Indian interior Alaska journey Kaltag knew Kobuk Kobuk River Kotzebue Sound Koyukuk River Kuskokwim labour load mission missionary morning mountains mouth mukluks Nanook native village Nenana never night Nome Nulato once one's parkee passed Point Hope portage pulled Rampart reached reindeer road-house seemed Seward Peninsula snow snow-shoes sort spruce steamboat stopped stove stretch summit Tanana River temperature tent thermometer thing tion toboggan took town trail tributary upper upper Tanana warm whole wind winter Yukon Yukon River zero
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الصفحة 399 - This preservation photocopy was made at BookLab. Inc. In compliance with copyright law. The paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO...
الصفحة 176 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory It spreads from pole to pole; Till o'er our...
الصفحة 309 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
الصفحة 38 - Alaska perhaps more than any other country it is the heavens that declare the glory of God and the firmament that...
الصفحة 210 - ... I've got a dog I think a heap of myself, but that dog ain't nothin' to me an' I'll do it for you." Nanook knew perfectly well that it was all over with him. Head and tail down, the picture of resigned dejection, he stood like a petrified dog. And when I put my face down to his and said "Good-bye," he licked me for the first time in his life. In the six years I had owned him and driven him I had never felt his tongue before, though I had always loved him best of the bunch.
الصفحة 2 - The generality may be born to do their duty in that station of life in which it has pleased God to call them...
الصفحة 311 - Worship ; and we find accordingly, that, seeking to " keep the happy mean between too much stiffness in refusing, and too much easiness in admitting variations in things once advisedly established...
الصفحة 269 - Aristotle, for example, judged that what all persons desire as an end in itself, and not as a means to any other end, is happiness.
الصفحة 214 - Fifty, sixty, seventy below zero, all night long at such temperatures he would sleep contentedly. "He would stand and take any licking you offered and never utter a sound but give a bark of defiance when you were done, and he would bear you no ill will in the world and repeat his offense at the next opportunity.
الصفحة 379 - ... Some with a few dogs, but they always have to put on a harness and neck the sled with the dogs. one-man dog An oddly backwards phrase used in the earlier part of the century for the dog of a prospector who used only one dog to pull his sled. 1914 Hudson Stuck Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled 399: There is a dog, not uncommon in Alaska, that by a curious inversion of phrase is known as the "one-man-dog.