...travelling along a coast line, when advantage can be taken of their long smooth tops, had to be encountered nearly at right angles. The whole formed the roughest...success stimulating them for the next struggle. A passage had always to be cut through the squeezed-up ice with pickaxes, an extra one being carried...

...the piled-up masses to the general level. " The journey," says Captain Nares in the general report, "was consequently an incessant battle to overcome...success stimulating them for the next struggle. A passage way had always to be cut through the squeezed-up ice with pick-axes, an extra one being carried...

...says Nares, "was consequently an incessant battle to overcome ever-recurring obstacles, each hard-worn success stimulating them for the next struggle. A passage-way had always to be cut through the squcezed-up ice with pickaxes, an extra one being carried for the purpose, and an incline picked out...

...says Nares, "was consequently an incessant battle to overcome everrecurring obstacles, each hard-worn success stimulating them for the next struggle. A...for the purpose, and an incline picked out of the perpendicnlar side of the high floes, or roadway built up, before the sledges — generally one at...

...travelling along a coast line, when advantage can be taken of their long smooth tops, had to be encountered nearly at right angles. The whole formed the roughest...journey was consequently an incessant battle to overcome ever-recurring obstacles ; each hard-won success stimulating them for the next struggle. A passage-way...