Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 247William Blackwood, 1940 - England |
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Page 237
... snow , but we had forgotten the frost -twenty degrees of it - and each boot was frozen as hard as iron and shrunken by several sizes . Somehow Björg and I forced eighteen small feet into eighteen boots and thrust nine shivering little ...
... snow , but we had forgotten the frost -twenty degrees of it - and each boot was frozen as hard as iron and shrunken by several sizes . Somehow Björg and I forced eighteen small feet into eighteen boots and thrust nine shivering little ...
Page 238
... snow in the warm sunshine . Later , the surface became better , until we found good going and a powdering of new snow near the summit of Flöya . Then , suddenly , we came on fresh wolf spoor - an almost unheard - of thing in this area ...
... snow in the warm sunshine . Later , the surface became better , until we found good going and a powdering of new snow near the summit of Flöya . Then , suddenly , we came on fresh wolf spoor - an almost unheard - of thing in this area ...
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... snow squalls . Periodically the snow swept over the ship and shut us into a tiny circle of dancing , sweeping flakes , suddenly to clear again to the wide sweep of the horizon , broken for the first time for thirty - five days by the ...
... snow squalls . Periodically the snow swept over the ship and shut us into a tiny circle of dancing , sweeping flakes , suddenly to clear again to the wide sweep of the horizon , broken for the first time for thirty - five days by the ...
Contents
LETS FEED OURSELVES BY H MORTIMER BATTEN | 184 |
MEMORIES OF THE DEER FORESTS BY H MORTIMER BATTEN 482 | 307 |
PATROLLING A FRONTIER BY CLELAND SCOTT 492 | 326 |
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