Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack : From the History of the First U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
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As to facing it in a stationary position, nothing human could; for a man would be buried in ten minutes.
Even in reaching our little Tusculum, we tumble up to our middle, in places where a few minutes before the very ice was laid bare. The entire topography of our ice is changing constantly.
"7 p.m. 'The wind is howling.' Our mess begin to talk again of sleeping in boots, and the other luxuries of Lancaster Sound.
For my own part, better, far better this, with the spicy tingling of a crisis, th...an the ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC ICE PACK 281 corroding, scurvy-engendering sameness of the past two months. Every moment now is full of expectation.
"March 21. The wind changed this morning to the westward, and by daylight was blowing freshly. After breakfast, Murdaugh and myself started on a tramp to the 'open water,' to see the effects of the gale. The drift was beyond conception; sufficient, in many places, to have covered up our whole ship's company. The wind made it as cold at —5° as I have seen it at —30°, and the fine snow pelted our faces; but the surface was frozen so hard that we walked over the crust, and in a little over half an hour we reached the lead.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As to facing it in a stationary position, nothing human could; for a man would be buried in ten minutes.
Even in reaching our little Tusculum, we tumble up to our middle, in places where a few minutes before the very ice was laid bare. The entire topography of our ice is changing constantly.
"7 p.m. 'The wind is howling.' Our mess begin to talk again of sleeping in boots, and the other luxuries of Lancaster Sound.
For my own part, better, far better this, with the spicy tingling of a crisis, th...an the ADRIFT IN THE ARCTIC ICE PACK 281 corroding, scurvy-engendering sameness of the past two months. Every moment now is full of expectation.
"March 21. The wind changed this morning to the westward, and by daylight was blowing freshly. After breakfast, Murdaugh and myself started on a tramp to the 'open water,' to see the effects of the gale. The drift was beyond conception; sufficient, in many places, to have covered up our whole ship's company. The wind made it as cold at —5° as I have seen it at —30°, and the fine snow pelted our faces; but the surface was frozen so hard that we walked over the crust, and in a little over half an hour we reached the lead.
What to read after Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack : From the History of the First U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin?
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