| | 18487 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0001 PART ONE CHAPTER SIX OF THE FUR COUNTRY THIS IS A LIBRIVOX RECORDING |
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| | 18488 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0002 ALL LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN |
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| | 18489 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0003 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBRIVOX DOT ORG |
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| | 18490 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0004 THE FUR COUNTRY BY JULES VERNE PART ONE CHAPTER SIX |
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| | 18491 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0005 A WAPITI DUEL TWO HUNDRED MILES HAD BEEN TRAVERSED SINCE THE EXPEDITION LEFT FORT RELIANCE |
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| | 18492 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0006 THE TRAVELLERS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE LONG TWILIGHT |
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| | 18493 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0007 PRESSED ON DAY AND NIGHT AND WERE LITERALLY OVERCOME WITH FATIGUE |
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| | 18494 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0008 WHEN THEY REACHED FORT ENTERPRISE NEAR THE SHORES OF LAKE SNARE |
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| | 18495 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0009 THIS FORT WAS NO MORE THAN A DEPOT OF PROVISIONS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE |
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| | 18496 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0010 ERECTED A FEW YEARS BEFORE BY THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY |
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| | 18497 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0011 IT SERVED AS A RESTING PLACE FOR THE MEN |
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| | 18498 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0012 TAKING THE CONVOYS OF FURS FROM THE GREAT BEAR LAKE |
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| | 18499 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0013 SOME THREE HUNDRED MILES FURTHER TO THE NORTH WEST |
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| | 18500 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0014 ABOUT A DOZEN SOLDIERS FORMED THE GARRISON |
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| | 18501 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0015 THE FORT CONSISTED OF A WOODEN HOUSE SURROUNDED BY PALISADES |
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| | 18502 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0016 BUT FEW AS WERE THE COMFORTS IT OFFERED LIEUTENANT HOBSON'S COMPANIONS |
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| | 18503 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0017 GLADLY TOOK REFUGE IN IT AND RESTED THERE FOR TWO DAYS |
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| | 18504 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0018 THE GENTLE INFLUENCE OF THE ARCTIC SPRING WAS BEGINNING TO BE FELT |
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| | 18505 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0019 HERE AND THERE THE SNOW HAD MELTED |
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| | 18506 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0020 AND THE TEMPERATURE OF THE NIGHTS WAS NO LONGER BELOW FREEZING POINT |
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| | 18507 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0021 A FEW DELICATE MOSSES AND SLENDER GRASSES CLOTHED THE RUGGED GROUND WITH THEIR SOFT VERDURE |
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| | 18508 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0022 AND FROM BETWEEN THE STONES PEEPED THE MOIST CALICES OF TINY |
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| | 18509 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0023 ALMOST COLOURLESS FLOWERS THESE FAINT SIGNS OF REAWAKENING VEGETATION |
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| | 18510 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0024 AFTER THE LONG NIGHT OF WINTER WERE REFRESHING TO EYES |
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| | 18511 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0025 WEARY OF THE MONOTONOUS WHITENESS OF THE SNOW |
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| | 18512 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0026 AND THE SCATTERED SPECIMENS OF THE FLORA OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS |
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| | 18513 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0027 WERE WELCOMED WITH DELIGHT MRS PAULINA BARNETT AND JASPAR HOBSON |
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| | 18514 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0028 AVAILED THEMSELVES OF THIS LEISURE TIME TO VISIT THE SHORES OF THE LITTLE LAKE |
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| | 18515 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0029 THEY WERE BOTH STUDENTS AND ENTHUSIASTIC LOVERS OF NATURE |
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| | 18516 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0030 TOGETHER THEY WANDERED AMONGST THE ICE MASSES ALREADY BEGINNING TO BREAK UP |
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| | 18517 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0031 AND THE WATERFALLS CREATED BY THE ACTION OF THE RAYS OF THE SUN |
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| | 18518 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0032 THE SURFACE ITSELF OF LAKE SNARE WAS STILL INTACT |
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| | 18519 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0033 NOT A CRACK DENOTED THE APPROACHING THAW |
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| | 18520 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0034 BUT IT WAS STREWN WITH THE RUINS OF MIGHTY ICEBERGS |
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| | 18521 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0035 WHICH ASSUMED ALL MANNER OF PICTURESQUE FORMS |
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| | 18522 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0036 AND THE BEAUTY OF WHICH WAS HEIGHTENED WHEN THE LIGHT |
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| | 18523 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0037 DIFFRACTED BY THE SHARP EDGES OF THE ICE |
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| | 18524 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0038 TOUCHED THEM WITH ALL MANNER OF COLOURS |
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| | 18525 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0039 ONE MIGHT HAVE FANCIED THAT A RAINBOW CRUSHED IN A POWERFUL HAND |
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| | 18526 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0040 BAD BEEN FLUNG UPON THE GROUND ITS FRAGMENTS |
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| | 18527 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0041 CROSSING EACH OTHER AS THEY FELL |
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| | 18528 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0042 WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SCENE EXCLAIMED MRS PAULINA BARNETT THESE PRISMATIC EFFECTS |
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| | 18529 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0043 VARY AT EVERY CHANGE OF OUR POSITION |
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| | 18530 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0044 DOES IT NOT SEEM AS IF WE WERE BENDING OVER THE OPENING OF AN IMMENSE KALEIDOSCOPE |
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| | 18531 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0045 OR ARE YOU ALREADY WEARY OF A SIGHT SO NEW AND INTERESTING TO ME |
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| | 18532 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0046 NO MADAM REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT ALTHOUGH I WAS BORN AND BRED ON THIS CONTINENT |
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| | 18533 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0047 ITS BEAUTIES NEVER PALL UPON ME |
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| | 18534 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0048a BUT IF YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS SO GREAT WHEN YOU SEE THIS SCENERY WITH THE SUN SHINING UPON IT |
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| | 18535 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0048b WHAT WILL IT BE WHEN YOU ARE PRIVILEGED TO BEHOLD |
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| | 18536 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0049 THE TERRIBLE GRANDEUR OF THE WINTER TO OWN THE TRUTH I THINK THE SUN |
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| | 18537 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0050 SO MUCH THOUGHT OF IN TEMPERATE LATITUDES SPOILS MY ARCTIC HOME |
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| | 18538 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0051 INDEED EXCLAIMED MRS BARNETT SMILING AT THE LIEUTENANT'S LAST REMARK |
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| | 18539 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0052 FOR MY PART I THINK THE SUN A CAPITAL TRAVELLING COMPANION |
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| | 18540 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0053 AND I SHALL NOT BE DISPOSED TO GRUMBLE AT THE WARMTH IT GIVES |
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| | 18541 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0054 EVEN IN THE POLAR REGIONS AH MADAM REPLIED JASPAR HOBSON |
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| | 18542 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0055 I AM ONE OF THOSE WHO THINK IT BEST TO VISIT RUSSIA IN THE WINTER AND THE SAHARA DESERT IN THE SUMMER |
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| | 18543 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0056 YOU THEN SEE THEIR PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICS TO ADVANTAGE |
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| | 18544 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0057 THE SUN IS A STAR OF THE TORRID AND TEMPERATE ZONES |
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| | 18545 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0058 AND IS OUT OF PLACE THIRTY DEGREES FROM THE NORTH POLE |
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| | 18546 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0059 THE TRUE SKY OF THIS COUNTRY IS THE PURE FRIGID SKY OF WINTER |
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| | 18547 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0060 BRIGHT WITH CONSTELLATIONS AND SOMETIMES FLUSHED WITH THE GLORY OF THE AURORA BOREALIS |
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| | 18548 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0061 THIS LAND IS THE LAND OF THE NIGHT NOT OF THE DAY |
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| | 18549 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0062 AND YOU HAVE YET TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE DELIGHTS AND MARVELS OF THE LONG POLAR NIGHT |
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| | 18550 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0063 HAVE YOU EVER VISITED THE TEMPERATE ZONES OF EUROPE AND AMERICA |
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| | 18551 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0064 INQUIRED MRS BARNETT YES MADAM AND I ADMIRED THEM AS THEY DESERVED |
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| | 18552 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0065 BUT I RETURNED HOME WITH FRESH LOVE AND ENTHUSIASM FOR MY NATIVE LAND |
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| | 18553 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0066 COLD IS MY ELEMENT AND NO MERIT IS DUE TO ME FOR BRAVING IT |
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| | 18554 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0067 IT HAS NO POWER OVER ME AND LIKE THE ESQUIMAUX I CAN LIVE FOR MONTHS TOGETHER IN A SNOW HUT |
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| | 18555 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0068 REALLY LIEUTENANT HOBSON IT IS QUITE CHEERING TO HEAR OUR DREADED ENEMY |
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| | 18556 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0069 SPOKEN OF IN SUCH TERMS |
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| | 18557 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0070 I HOPE TO PROVE MYSELF WORTHY TO BE YOUR COMPANION AND |
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| | 18558 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0071 WHEREVER YOU VENTURE WE WILL VENTURE TOGETHER |
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| | 18559 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0072 I AGREE MADAM I AGREE AND MAY ALL THE WOMEN AND SOLDIERS ACCOMPANYING ME |
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| | 18560 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0073 SHOW THEMSELVES AS RESOLUTE AS YOU IF SO GOD HELPING US |
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| | 18561 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0074 WE SHALL INDEED ADVANCE FAR YOU |
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| | 18562 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0075 HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF YET OBSERVED THE LADY |
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| | 18563 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0076 NOT A SINGLE ACCIDENT HAS OCCURRED THE WEATHER HAS BEEN PROPITIOUS |
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| | 18564 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0077 THE COLD NOT TOO SEVERE EVERYTHING HAS COMBINED TO AID US |
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| | 18565 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0078 YES MADAM BUT THE SUN WHICH YOU ADMIRE SO MUCH |
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| | 18566 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0079 WILL SOON CREATE DIFFICULTIES FOR US AND STREW OBSTACLES IN OUR PATH |
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| | 18567 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0080 WHAT DO YOU MEAN LIEUTENANT HOBSON |
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| | 18568 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0081 I MEAN THAT THE HEAT WILL SOON HAVE CHANGED THE ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY |
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| | 18569 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0082 THAT THE MELTED ICE WILL IMPEDE THE SLIDING OF THE SLEDGES |
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| | 18570 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0083 THAT THE GROUND WILL BECOME ROUGH AND UNEVEN |
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| | 18571 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0084 THAT OUR PANTING DOGS WILL NO LONGER CARRY US ALONG WITH THE SPEED OF AN ARROW |
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| | 18572 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0085 THAT THE RIVERS AND LAKES WILL RESUME THEIR LIQUID STATE |
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| | 18573 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0086 AND THAT WE SHALL HAVE TO FORD OR GO ROUND THEM |
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| | 18574 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0087 ALL THESE CHANGES MADAM DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOLAR RAYS |
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| | 18575 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0088 WILL CAUSE DELAYS FATIGUE AND DANGERS |
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| | 18576 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0089 THE VERY LEAST OF WHICH WILL BE THE BREAKING OF THE BRITTLE SNOW BENEATH OUR FEET |
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| | 18577 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0090 OR THE FALLING OF THE AVALANCHES FROM THE SUMMITS |
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| | 18578 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0091 OF THE ICEBERGS |
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| | 18579 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0092 FOR ALL THIS WE HAVE TO THANK THE GRADUAL RISE OF THE SUN HIGHER AND HIGHER ABOVE THE HORIZON |
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| | 18580 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0093 BEAR THIS IN MIND MADAM |
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| | 18581 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0094 OF THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF THE OLD CREATION ONLY ONE IS NECESSARY TO US HERE |
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| | 18582 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0095 THE AIR THE OTHER THREE FIRE EARTH AND WATER |
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| | 18583 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0096 ARE DE TROP IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS |
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| | 18584 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0097 OF COURSE THE LIEUTENANT WAS EXAGGERATING AND MRS BARNETT COULD EASILY HAVE RETORTED |
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| | 18585 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0098 WITH COUNTER ARGUMENTS BUT SHE LIKED TO HEAR HIS RAPTURES IN PRAISE OF HIS BELOVED COUNTRY |
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| | 18586 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0099 AND SHE FELT THAT HIS ENTHUSIASM WAS A GUARANTEE THAT HE WOULD SHRINK FROM NO OBSTACLE |
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| | 18587 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0100 YET JASPAR HOBSON WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THE SUN WOULD CAUSE DIFFICULTIES |
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| | 18588 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0101 THIS WAS SEEN WHEN THE PARTY SET OUT AGAIN ON THE FOURTH MAY |
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| | 18589 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0102 THREE DAYS LATER THE THERMOMETER |
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| | 18590 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0103 EVEN IN THE COLDEST PART OF THE NIGHT MARKED MORE THAN THIRTY TWO DEGREES FAHRENHEIT |
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| | 18591 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0104 A COMPLETE THAW SET IN THE VAST WHITE SHEET OF SNOW RESOLVED ITSELF INTO WATER |
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| | 18592 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0105 THE IRREGULARITIES OF THE ROCKY SOIL CAUSED CONSTANT JOLTING OF THE SLEDGES |
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| | 18593 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0106 AND THE PASSENGERS WERE ROUGHLY SHAKEN |
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| | 18594 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0107 THE ROADS WERE SO HEAVY THAT THE DOGS HAD TO GO AT A SLOW TROT |
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| | 18595 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0108 AND THE REINS WERE THEREFORE AGAIN |
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| | 18596 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0109 ENTRUSTED TO THE HANDS OF THE IMPRUDENT CORPORAL JOLIFFE |
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| | 18597 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0110 NEITHER SHOUTS NOR FLOURISHINGS OF THE WHIP |
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| | 18598 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0111 HAD THE SLIGHTEST EFFECT ON THE JADED ANIMALS |
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| | 18599 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0112 FROM TIME TO TIME THE TRAVELLERS LIGHTENED THE SLEDGES BY WALKING LITTLE WAY |
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| | 18600 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0113 THIS MODE OF LOCOMOTION SUITED THE HUNTERS |
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| | 18601 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0114 WHO WERE NOW GRADUALLY APPROACHING THE BEST DISTRICTS FOR GAME IN THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH AMERICA |
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| | 18602 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0115 MRS PAULINA BARNETT AND MADGE TOOK A GREAT INTEREST IN THE CHASE |
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| | 18603 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0116 WHILST THOMAS BLACK PROFESSED ABSOLUTE INDIFFERENCE TO ALL ATHLETIC EXERCISE |
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| | 18604 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0117 HE HAD NOT COME ALL THIS DISTANCE TO HUNT THE POLECAT OR THE ERMINE |
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| | 18605 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0118 BUT MERELY TO LOOK AT THE MOON |
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| | 18606 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0119 AT THE MOMENT WHEN HER DISC SHOULD COVER THAT OF THE SUN |
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| | 18607 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0120 WHEN THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ROSE ABOVE THE HORIZON THE IMPATIENT ASTRONOMER |
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| | 18608 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0121 WOULD GAZE AT HER WITH EAGER EYES |
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| | 18609 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0122 AND ONE DAY THE LIEUTENANT SAID TO HIM |
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| | 18610 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0123 IT WOULD BE A BAD LOOK OUT FOR YOU MR BLACK |
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| | 18611 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0124 IF BY ANY UNLUCKY CHANCE |
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| | 18612 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0125 THE MOON SHOULD FAIL TO KEEP HER APPOINTMENT ON THE SIXTEENTH JULY EIGHTEEN SIXTY |
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| | 18613 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0126 LIEUTENANT HOBSON GRAVELY REPLIED THE ASTRONOMER |
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| | 18614 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0127 IF THE MOON WERE GUILTY OF SUCH A BREACH OF GOOD MANNERS |
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| | 18615 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0128 I SHOULD INDEED HAVE CAUSE TO COMPLAIN THE CHIEF HUNTERS OF THE EXPEDITION |
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| | 18616 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0129 WERE THE SOLDIERS MARBRE AND SABINE BOTH VERY EXPERT AT THEIR BUSINESS |
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| | 18617 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0130 THEIR SKILL WAS WONDERFUL AND THE CLEVEREST INDIANS |
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| | 18618 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0131 WOULD NOT HAVE SURPASSED THEM IN KEENNESS OF SIGHT |
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| | 18619 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0132 PRECISION OF AIM OR MANUAL ADDRESS THEY WERE ALIKE TRAPPERS AND HUNTERS |
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| | 18620 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0133 AND WERE ACQUAINTED WITH ALL THE NETS AND SNARES |
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| | 18621 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0134 FOR TAKING SABLES OTTERS WOLVES FOXES BEARS ETC |
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| | 18622 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0135 NO ARTIFICE WAS UNKNOWN TO THEM AND CAPTAIN CRAVENTY HAD SHOWN HIS WISDOM |
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| | 18623 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0136 IN CHOOSING TWO SUCH INTELLIGENT MEN TO ACCOMPANY THE LITTLE TROOP |
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| | 18624 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0137 WHILST ON THE MARCH HOWEVER MARBRE AND SABINE HAD NO TIME FOR SETTING TRAPS |
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| | 18625 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0138 THEY COULD NOT SEPARATE FROM THE OTHERS FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR OR TWO AT A TIME |
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| | 18626 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0139 AND WERE OBLIGED TO BE CONTENT WITH THE GAME WHICH PASSED WITHIN RANGE OF THEIR RIFLES |
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| | 18627 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0140 STILL THEY WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO KILL TWO OF THE LARGE AMERICAN RUMINANTS |
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| | 18628 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0141 SELDOM MET WITH IN SUCH ELEVATED LATITUDES |
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| | 18629 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0142 ON THE MORNING OF THE FIFTEENTH MAY |
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| | 18630 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0143 THE HUNTERS ASKED PERMISSION TO FOLLOW SOME FRESH TRACES THEY HAD FOUND |
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| | 18631 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0144 AND THE LIEUTENANT NOT ONLY GRANTED IT |
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| | 18632 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0145 BUT HIMSELF ACCOMPANIED THEM WITH MRS PAULINA BARNETT |
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| | 18633 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0146 AND THEY WENT SEVERAL MILES OUT OF THEIR ROUTE TOWARDS THE EAST |
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| | 18634 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0147 THE IMPRESSIONS WERE EVIDENTLY THE RESULT OF THE PASSAGE |
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| | 18635 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0148 OF ABOUT HALF A DOZEN LARGE DEER |
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| | 18636 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0149 THERE COULD BE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT |
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| | 18637 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0150 MARBRE AND SABINE WERE POSITIVE ON THAT POINT |
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| | 18638 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0151 AND COULD EVEN HAVE NAMED THE SPECIES TO WHICH THE ANIMALS BELONGED |
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| | 18639 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0152 YOU SEEM SURPRISED TO HAVE MET WITH TRACES OF THESE ANIMALS HERE LIEUTENANT |
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| | 18640 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0153 SAID MRS BARNETT WELL MADAM REPLIED HOBSON |
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| | 18641 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0154 THIS SPECIES IS RARELY SEEN BEYOND FIFTY SEVEN DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE |
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| | 18642 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0155 WE GENERALLY HUNT THEM AT THE SOUTH OF THE SLAVE LAKE |
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| | 18643 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0156 WHERE THEY FEED UPON THE SHOOTS OF WILLOWS AND POPLARS |
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| | 18644 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0157 AND CERTAIN WILD ROSES TO WHICH THEY ARE VERY PARTIAL |
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| | 18645 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0158 I SUPPOSE THESE CREATURES LIKE THOSE WITH VALUABLE FURS HAVE FLED FROM THE DISTRICTS SCOURED BY THE HUNTERS |
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| | 18646 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0159 I SEE NO OTHER EXPLANATION OF THEIR PRESENCE AT SIXTY FIVE DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT |
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| | 18647 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0160 THAT IS IF THE MEN ARE NOT MISTAKEN AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE FOOTPRINTS |
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| | 18648 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0161 NO NO SIR CRIED SABINE MARBRE AND I ARE NOT MISTAKEN |
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| | 18649 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0162 THESE TRACES WERE LEFT BY DEER THE DEER WE HUNTERS CALL RED DEER |
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| | 18650 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0163 AND THE NATIVES WAPITIS HE IS QUITE RIGHT ADDED MARBRE |
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| | 18651 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0164 OLD TRAPPERS LIKE US ARE NOT TO BE TAKEN IN |
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| | 18652 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0165 BESIDES DON'T YOU HEAR THAT PECULIAR WHISTLING SOUND |
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| | 18653 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0166 THE PARTY HAD NOW REACHED THE FOOT OF A LITTLE HILL |
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| | 18654 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0167 AND AS THE SNOW HAD ALMOST DISAPPEARED FROM ITS SIDES |
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| | 18655 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0168 THEY WERE ABLE TO CLIMB IT AND HASTENED TO THE SUMMIT |
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| | 18656 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0169 THE PECULIAR WHISTLING NOTICED BY MARBRE BECOMING LOUDER |
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| | 18657 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0170 MINGLED WITH CRIES RESEMBLING THE BRAYING OF AN ASS |
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| | 18658 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0171 AND PROVING THAT THE TWO HUNTERS WERE RIOT MISTAKEN |
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| | 18659 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0172 ONCE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL |
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| | 18660 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0173 THE ADVENTURERS LOOKED EAGERLY TOWARDS THE EAST |
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| | 18661 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0174 THE UNDULATING PLAINS WERE STILL WHITE WITH SNOW |
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| | 18662 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0175 BUT ITS DAZZLING SURFACE WAS HERE AND THERE RELIEVED |
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| | 18663 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0176 WITH PATCHES OF STUNTED LIGHT GREEN VEGETATION |
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| | 18664 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0177 A FEW GAUNT SHRUBS STRETCHED FORTH THEIR BARE AND SHRIVELLED BRANCHES |
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| | 18665 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0178 AND HUGE ICEBERGS WITH PRECIPITOUS SIDES |
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| | 18666 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0179 STOOD OUT AGAINST THE GREY BACKGROUND OF THE SKY |
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| | 18667 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0180 WAPITIS WAPITIS THERE THEY ARE CRIED SABINE AND MARBRE AT ONCE |
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| | 18668 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0181 POINTING TO A GROUP OF ANIMALS DISTINCTLY VISIBLE |
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| | 18669 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0182 ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE TO THE EAST |
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| | 18670 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0183 WHAT ARE THEY DOING ASKED MRS BARNETT THEY ARE FIGHTING MADAM |
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| | 18671 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0184 REPLIED HOBSON THEY ALWAYS DO WHEN THE HEAT OF THE POLAR SUN |
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| | 18672 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0185 INFLAMES THEIR BLOOD ANOTHER DEPLORABLE RESULT OF THE ACTION OF THE RADIANT ORB OF DAY |
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| | 18673 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0186 FROM WHERE THEY STOOD THE PARTY COULD EASILY WATCH THE GROUP OF WAPITIS |
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| | 18674 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0187 THEY WERE FINE SPECIMENS OF THE FAMILY OF DEER |
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| | 18675 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0188 KNOWN UNDER THE VARIOUS NAMES OF STAGS WITH ROUNDED ANTLERS AMERICAN STAGS |
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| | 18676 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0189 ROEBUCKS GREY ELKS AND RED ELKS ETC THESE GRACEFUL CREATURES |
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| | 18677 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0190 HAVE SLENDER LEGS AND BROWN SKINS WITH PATCHES OF RED HAIR |
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| | 18678 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0191 THE COLOUR OF WHICH BECOMES DARKER IN THE WARMER SEASON |
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| | 18679 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0192 THE FIERCE MALES ARE EASILY DISTINGUISHED FROM THE FEMALES |
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| | 18680 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0193 BY THEIR FINE WHITE ANTLERS THE LATTER BEING ENTIRELY WITHOUT THESE ORNAMENTS |
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| | 18681 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0194 THESE WAPITIS WERE ONCE VERY NUMEROUS ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA AND |
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| | 18682 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0195 THE UNITED STATES IMPORTED A GREAT MANY |
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| | 18683 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0196 BUT CLEARINGS WERE BEGUN ON EVERY SIDE |
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| | 18684 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0197 THE FOREST TREES FELL BENEATH THE AXE OF THE PIONEER OF CIVILISATION AND |
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| | 18685 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0198 THE WAPITIS TOOK REFUGE IN THE MORE PEACEFUL DISTRICTS OF CANADA |
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| | 18686 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0199 BUT THEY WERE SOON AGAIN DISTURBED AND WANDERED TO THE SHORES OF HUDSON'S BAY |
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| | 18687 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0200 SO THAT ALTHOUGH THE WAPITI THRIVES IN A COLD COUNTRY |
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| | 18688 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0201 LIEUTENANT HOBSON WAS RIGHT IN SAYING THAT IT SELDOM PENETRATES |
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| | 18689 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0202 BEYOND FIFTY SEVEN DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE AND THE SPECIMENS NOW FOUND |
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| | 18690 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0203 HAD DOUBTLESS FLED BEFORE THE CHIPPEWAY INDIANS WHO HUNT THEM WITHOUT MERCY |
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| | 18691 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0204 THE WAPITIS WERE SO ENGROSSED IN THEIR DESPERATE STRUGGLE |
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| | 18692 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0205 THAT THEY WERE UNCONSCIOUS OF THE APPROACH OF THE HUNTERS |
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| | 18693 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0206 BUT THEY WOULD PROBABLY NOT HAVE CEASED FIGHTING HAD THEY BEEN AWARE OF IT |
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| | 18694 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0207 MARBRE AND SABINE AWARE OF THEIR PECULIARITY IN THIS RESPECT |
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| | 18695 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0208 MIGHT THEREFORE HAVE ADVANCED FEARLESSLY UPON THEM |
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| | 18696 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0209 AND HAVE TAKEN AIM AT LEISURE |
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| | 18697 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0210 LIEUTENANT HOBSON SUGGESTED THAT THEY SHOULD DO SO BEG PARDON SIR |
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| | 18698 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0211 REPLIED MARBRE BUT LET US SPARE OUR POWDER AND SHOT |
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| | 18699 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0212 THESE BEASTS ARE ENGAGED IN A WAR TO THE DEATH |
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| | 18700 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0213 AND WE SHALL ARRIVE IN PLENTY OF TIME TO PICK UP THE VANQUISHED |
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| | 18701 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0214 HAVE THESE WAPITIS A COMMERCIAL VALUE ASKED MRS PAULINA BARNETT |
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| | 18702 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0215 YES MADAM REPLIED HOBSON |
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| | 18703 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0216 AND THEIR SKIN WHICH IS NOT QUITE SO THICK AS THAT OF THE ELK |
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| | 18704 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0217 PROPERLY SO CALLED MAKES VERY VALUABLE LEATHER |
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| | 18705 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0218 BY RUBBING THIS SKIN WITH THE FAT AND BRAINS OF THE ANIMAL ITSELF |
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| | 18706 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0219 IT IS RENDERED FLEXIBLE AND NEITHER DAMP NOR DRYNESS INJURES IT THE |
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| | 18707 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0220 INDIANS ARE THEREFORE ALWAYS EAGER TO PROCURE THE SKINS OF THE WAPITIS |
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| | 18708 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0221 DOES NOT THE FLESH MAKE ADMIRABLE VENISON PRETTY GOOD MADAM ONLY PRETTY GOOD |
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| | 18709 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0222 IT IS TOUGH AND DOES NOT TASTE VERY NICE |
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| | 18710 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0223 THE FAT BECOMES HARD DIRECTLY IT IS TAKEN FROM THE FIRE |
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| | 18711 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0224 AND STICKS TO THE TEETH IT IS CERTAINLY INFERIOR AS AN ARTICLE OF FOOD |
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| | 18712 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0225 TO THE FLESH OF OTHER DEER |
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| | 18713 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0226 BUT WHEN MEAT IS SCARCE WE ARE GLAD ENOUGH TO EAT IT |
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| | 18714 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0227 AND IT SUPPORTS LIFE AS WELL AS ANYTHING ELSE |
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| | 18715 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0228 MRS BARNETT AND LIEUTENANT HOBSON HAD BEEN CHATTING TOGETHER FOR SOME MINUTES |
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| | 18716 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0229 WHEN WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO THE WAPITIS SUDDENLY CEASED FIGHTING |
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| | 18717 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0230 WAS THEIR RAGE SATIATED OR HAD THEY PERCEIVED THE HUNTERS |
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| | 18718 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0231 AND FELT THE APPROACH OF DANGER WHATEVER THE CAUSE |
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| | 18719 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0232 ALL BUT TWO FINE CREATURES FLED A TOWARDS THE EAST WITH INCREDIBLE SPEED |
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| | 18720 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0233 IN A FEW INSTANTS THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT |
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| | 18721 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0234 AND THE SWIFTEST HORSE COULD NOT HAVE CAUGHT THEM UP |
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| | 18722 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0235 MEANWHILE HOWEVER TWO MAGNIFICENT SPECIMENS REMAINED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE |
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| | 18723 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0236 HEADS DOWN ANTLERS TO ANTLERS HIND LEGS STRETCHED AND QUIVERING |
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| | 18724 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0237 THEY BUTTED AT EACH OTHER WITHOUT A MOMENT'S PAUSE |
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| | 18725 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0238 LIKE TWO WRESTLERS STRUGGLING FOR A PRIZE WHICH NEITHER WILL YIELD |
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| | 18726 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0239 THEY WOULD NOT SEPARATE BUT WHIRLED ROUND AND ROUND TOGETHER ON THEIR FRONT LEGS |
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| | 18727 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0240 AS IF RIVETED TO ONE ANOTHER WHAT IMPLACABLE RAGE EXCLAIMED MRS BARNETT |
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| | 18728 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0241 YES REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT THE WAPITIS REALLY ARE MOST SPITEFUL BEASTS |
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| | 18729 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0242 I HAVE NO DOUBT THEY ARE FIGHTING OUT AN OLD QUARREL |
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| | 18730 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0243 WOULD NOT THIS BE THE TIME TO APPROACH THEM |
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| | 18731 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0244 WHEN THEY ARE BLINDED WITH RAGE THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME MA'AM |
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| | 18732 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0245 SAID SABINE THEY WON'T ESCAPE US NOW THEY WILL NOT STIR FROM WHERE THEY ARE |
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| | 18733 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0246 WHEN WE ARE THREE STEPS FROM THEM THE RIFLES AT OUR SHOULDERS |
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| | 18734 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0247 AND OUR FINGERS ON THE TRIGGERS INDEED YES MADAM |
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| | 18735 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0248 ADDED HOBSON WHO HAD CAREFULLY EXAMINED THE WAPITIS |
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| | 18736 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0249 AFTER THE HUNTER'S REMARK AND WHETHER AT OUR HANDS OR FROM THE TEETH OF WOLVES |
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| | 18737 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0250 THOSE WAPITIS WILL MEET DEATH WHERE THEY NOW STAND |
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| | 18738 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0251 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN LIEUTENANT SAID MRS BARNETT |
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| | 18739 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0252 WELL GO NEARER MADAM HE REPLIED DON'T BE AFRAID OF STARTLING THE ANIMALS |
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| | 18740 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0253 FOR AS OUR HUNTER SAYS THEY ARE NO LONGER CAPABLE OF FLIGHT |
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| | 18741 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0254 THE FOUR NOW DESCENDED THE HILL |
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| | 18742 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0255 AND IN A FEW MINUTES GAINED THE THEATRE OF THE STRUGGLE |
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| | 18743 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0256 THE WAPITIS HAD NOT MOVED |
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| | 18744 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0257 THEY WERE PUSHING AT EACH OTHER LIKE A COUPLE OF RAMS |
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| | 18745 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0258 AND SEEMED TO BE INSEPARABLY GLUED TOGETHER |
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| | 18746 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0259 IN FACT IN THE HEAT OF THE COMBAT |
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| | 18747 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0260 THE ANTLERS OF THE TWO CREATURES HAD BECOME ENTANGLED TOGETHER |
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| | 18748 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0261 TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT THEY COULD NO LONGER SEPARATE WITHOUT BREAKING THEM |
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| | 18749 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0262 THIS OFTEN HAPPENS IN THE HUNTING DISTRICTS |
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| | 18750 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0263 IT IS NOT AT ALL UNCOMMON TO FIND ANTLERS THUS CONNECTED LYING ON THE GROUND |
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| | 18751 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0264 THE POOR ENCUMBERED ANIMALS SOON DIE OF HUNGER |
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| | 18752 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0265 OR THEY BECOME AN EASY PREY TO WILD BEASTS |
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| | 18753 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0266 TWO BULLETS PUT AN END TO THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE WAPITIS |
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| | 18754 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0267 AND MARBRE AND SABINE TAKING IMMEDIATE POSSESSION |
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| | 18755 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0268 CARRIED OFF THEIR SKINS TO BE SUBSEQUENTLY PREPARED |
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| | 18756 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0269 LEAVING THEIR BLEEDING CARCASSES TO BE DEVOURED BY WOLVES AND BEARS |
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| | 18757 | starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0270 END OF CHAPTER SIX |
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