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...their endurance. When the coast was nearly reached with all of the party more or less incapacitated, one of the men was overcome with sickness. He was left with a companion, while Lieutenant Shackleton and the fourth member of the party hurried on to the coast, signalled to their vessel for aid, returned with reinforcements without resting, found the men who had been left, and brought all hands out in safety. The party covered 1708 miles over the ice-fields in 126 days. During the last three days, Lieutenant Shackleton was almost continuously on the march. There is no more...
...this undertaking he was unsuccessful owing to a combination of misfortunes. Landing in Newfoundland in early June, he and his companion crossed the island by railroad and walking, to Trollingate, in order to intercept the St. John's steamer on her northward journey to Labrador. However, as the vessel was a week late, they shipped on a whaling boat bound for northern Newfoundland, intending to cross on her to Labrador. But the floating ice of the early spring kept them at a little whaling factory for some time. While there they were able to watch the whaling industry...
Appleton's--"The Weaker Vessel," by A. French...
...cubic yards; piling, 470,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 235,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riff raff, 9, 700 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting water out of the basin. There will also...
...Nordenskjold will in the first place give a general sketch of the expeditions with an account of the loss of his ship, with an account of the loss of his ship, and his rescue by a vessel sent out from and his rescue by a vessel sent out from Buenos Aires. He will then summarize the geographical, geological and zoological results of the expedition, including descriptions of icebergs detached from the great south-polar ice sheet, of the fiords in island coasts of extreme southern latitudes, and of other features of the Antarctic regions. The remarkable collection of stereopticon views...