. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . ircle. They were vociferating as if toattract our attention, or perhaps only to give vent totheir surprise; but I could make nothing out of theircries, except Hoah, ha ha ! and Ka, kaah! ha>kaah! repeated over and over again. There was light enough for me to see that theybrandished no weapons, and were only tossing theirheads and arms about in violent gesticulations. Amore unexcited inspection showed us, too, that theirnumb
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . ircle. They were vociferating as if toattract our attention, or perhaps only to give vent totheir surprise; but I could make nothing out of theircries, except Hoah, ha ha ! and Ka, kaah! ha>kaah! repeated over and over again. There was light enough for me to see that theybrandished no weapons, and were only tossing theirheads and arms about in violent gesticulations. Amore unexcited inspection showed us, too, that theirnumbers were not as great nor their size as Patago-nian as some of us had been disposed to fancy at a word, I was satisfied that they were natives of thecountry ; and calling Petersen from his bunk to be myinterpreter, I proceeded, unarmed and waving myopen hands, toward a stout figure who made him-self conspicuous and seemed to have a greater numbernear him than the rest. He evidently understood themovement, for he at once, like a brave fellow, leapeddown upon the floe and advanced to meet me fullyhalf-way. He was nearly a head taller than myself, extremely. LOADING THE FAITH.
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