. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. i;"
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. i;" 4 ,^ '9 V * k ' I 1 â iV i( ]â¢;, ; 5 ! i I I 464 THE POLAR WORLD. /v'-'^^fc*w:. iC-. OVEU THE ICE. as a hmitor, or native slircwclness, is looked up to with respect, and liis opinions arc regarded with deferenee; but he lias no sort of authority except that which eaeh person voluntarily concedes to him. We left ]Mr. Ilall near the close of January, IB'^l, when ho was just ri'liini. ing to the ship after his tirst overland expedition. We do not pripose to fol- low hiiu through the course of his personal narrative, although it ahomids with striking incidents and details of hardship and peril. Thus, one day in Marcli, Julin ]jrown, one of the ship's crew, in company with two Imuiits, starti.'d off from an igloo a few miles distant to rtjoin tlie ship. Somehow he got sepa- rated from his com lanions, but the next morning he had not arrived. Tiic ni^hl had been intensely cold, the thermometer marking 57 degrees below free/.iii!;- l)oint. A party of a dozen set off in the attempt to fmd him. Ii. two lidurs they ciime upon the tracks of the wanderer, but only Hall and four otlievs could hold out; the others, one by one, fell back. They kept on, following the tracks, which now began to grow faint, being partly filled up with snow. For a time the tracks went straight for the ship ; then they began to waver, now in one directio'i, and then in another, showing that the man had lost
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