The Fur Country; Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
The Fur Country; Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude
Verne Jules
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The bears went and came, prowling round the house, but attempting no direct attack. Watch was kept all night, and at four o*clock in the morning they seemed to have left the court — ^at any rate, they were nowhere to be seen. But about seven o'clock Marbre went up to the loft to fetch some provisions, and on his return announced that the bears were walking about on the roof. Hobson, the Sergeant, Mac-Nab, and two or three soldiers seized their arms, and rushed to the ladder in the passage, whic...h com- municated with the loft by a trap-door. The cold was, however^ so Digitized by Google 'The beairi were walking about on the roof/* &c. —Page 142. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE LARGE POLAR BEARS. I43 intense in the loft that the men could not hold the barrels of their guns, and their breath froze as it left their lips and floated about them as snow. Marbre was right ; the bears were ail on the roof, and the sound of their feet and their growls could be distinctly heard^ Their great claws caught in the laths of the roof beneath the ice, and there was some danger that they might have sufficient strength to tear away the woodwork.
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