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Title: 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
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e coast, laborine: through narrow and intricate channels amid mountains and loose fragments of ice near the Danish settlement. Their detention had not lacked amusement ; the half-caste sons and daughters of Danes and Esquimaux danced Scotch reels with the sailors on the deck of the Isabella; Jack Saccheous, a native of Greenland, who accompanied the expedition as interpreter, was master of ceremonies. A daughter of the Danish resident, about eighteen years of age, and by far the best looking of the group, was the object of Jacks particular attentions;which being observed by one of the officers, he gave him a ladys shawl, ornamented with spangles, as an offering for her acceptance. He presented it to the damsel, who bashfully took a pewter ring from her finger and presented it to him in return. Proceeding along a high mountainous coast, the expedition came to a tribe of Esquimaux who seem-ed to exist in a state of the deej^jest seclusion. They had never before seen men belonging to the civilized
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AN ICE CATHEDRAL. A SECLUDED RACE. 145 world, or of a race different from their own. The first small party whom the navigators approached showed every sign of the deepest alarm; dreading,as was afterward understood, a fatal influence from the mere touch of these beings of an unknown species. Yet they seem to have felt a secret attraction towards the strangers, and advanced, holding fast the long knives lodged in their boots, and looking significantly at each other. Having come to a chasm which separated them from the English, they made-earnest signs that only the interpreter, who bore a resemblance to themselves,should come across. He went forward and offered his hand. They shrunk back for some time in alarm ;at length the boldest touched it, and finding it flesh and blood set up a loud shout, which three others joined. The rest of the party then came up, to the number of eight, with fifty dogs which helped their masters in raising a tremendous clamor. Ross and Parry now thought it time to

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