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update master prompts file with prompts from user submission:starlite-20070618-fur7

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    1875618756starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0269 LEAVING THEIR BLEEDING CARCASSES TO BE DEVOURED BY WOLVES AND BEARS 
    1875718757starlite-20070613-fur6/mfc/fur0270 END OF CHAPTER SIX 
     18758starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0001 PART ONE CHAPTER SEVEN OF THE FUR COUNTRY 
     18759starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0002 BY JULES VERNE THIS IS A LIBRIVOX RECORDING 
     18760starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0003 ALL LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 
     18761starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0004 FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBRIVOX DOT ORG 
     18762starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0005 THE FUR COUNTRY BY JULES VERNE PART ONE CHAPTER SEVEN 
     18763starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0006 THE ARCTIC CIRCLE THE EXPEDITION CONTINUED TO ADVANCE TOWARDS THE NORTH WEST 
     18764starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0007 BUT THE GREAT INEQUALITIES OF THE GROUND 
     18765starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0008 MADE IT HARD WORK FOR THE DOGS TO GET ALONG 
     18766starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0009 AND THE POOR CREATURES WHO COULD HARDLY BE HELD IN WHEN THEY STARTED 
     18767starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0010 WERE NOW QUIET ENOUGH 
     18768starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0011 EIGHT OR TEN MILES A DAY WERE AS MUCH AS THEY COULD ACCOMPLISH 
     18769starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0012 ALTHOUGH LIEUTENANT HOBSON URGED THEM ON TO THE UTMOST 
     18770starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0013 HE WAS ANXIOUS TO GET TO FORT CONFIDENCE 
     18771starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0014 ON THE FURTHER SIDE OF THE GREAT BEAR LAKE 
     18772starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0015 WHERE HE HOPED TO OBTAIN SOME USEFUL INFORMATION 
     18773starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0016 HAD THE INDIANS FREQUENTING THE NORTHERN BANKS OF THE LAKE 
     18774starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0017 BEEN ABLE TO CROSS THE DISTRICTS ON THE SHORES OF THE SEA 
     18775starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0018 WAS THE ARCTIC OCEAN OPEN AT THIS TIME OF YEAR 
     18776starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0019 THESE WERE GRAVE QUESTIONS THE REPLY TO WHICH 
     18777starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0020 WOULD DECIDE THE FATE OF THE NEW FACTORY 
     18778starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0021 THE COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH THE LITTLE TROOP WAS NOW PASSING 
     18779starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0022 WAS INTERSECTED BY NUMEROUS STREAMS MOSTLY TRIBUTARIES OF THE TWO LARGE RIVERS 
     18780starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0023 THE MACKENZIE AND COPPERMINE WHICH FLOW FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH 
     18781starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0024 AND EMPTY THEMSELVES INTO THE ARCTIC OCEAN LAKES LAGOONS AND NUMEROUS POOLS 
     18782starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0025 ARE FORMED BETWEEN THESE TWO PRINCIPAL ARTERIES 
     18783starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0026 AND AS THEY WERE NO LONGER FROZEN OVER 
     18784starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0027 THE SLEDGES COULD NOT VENTURE UPON THEM 
     18785starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0028 AND WERE COMPELLED TO GO AROUND THEM WHICH CAUSED CONSIDERABLE DELAY 
     18786starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0029 LIEUTENANT HOBSON WAS CERTAINLY RIGHT IN SAYING 
     18787starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0030 THAT WINTER IS THE TIME TO VISIT THE HYPERBOREAN REGIONS 
     18788starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0031 FOR THEY ARE THEN FAR EASIER TO TRAVERSE 
     18789starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0032 MRS PAULINA BARNETT HAD REASON TO OWN 
     18790starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0033 THE JUSTICE OF THIS ASSERTION THAN ONCE 
     18791starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0034 THIS REGION INCLUDED IN THE CURSED LAND WAS BESIDES COMPLETELY DESERTED 
     18792starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0035 AS ARE THE GREATER PORTION OF THE DISTRICTS OF THE EXTREME NORTH OF AMERICA 
     18793starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0036 IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT THERE IS BUT ONE INHABITANT TO EVERY TEN SQUARE MILES 
     18794starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0037 BESIDES THE SCATTERED NATIVES THERE ARE SOME FEW THOUSAND AGENTS OR SOLDIERS 
     18795starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0038 OF THE DIFFERENT FUR TRADING COMPANIES BUT THEY MOSTLY CONGREGATE IN THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS 
     18796starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0039 AND ABOUT THE VARIOUS FACTORIES NO HUMAN FOOTPRINTS GLADDENED THE EYES OF THE TRAVELLERS 
     18797starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0040 THE ONLY TRACES ON THE SANDY SOIL WERE THOSE OF RUMINANTS AND RODENTS 
     18798starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0041 NOW AND THEN A FIERCE POLAR BEAR WAS SEEN 
     18799starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0042 AND MRS PAULINA BARNETT EXPRESSED HER SURPRISE 
     18800starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0043 AT NOT MEETING MORE OF THESE TERRIBLE CARNIVOROUS BEASTS 
     18801starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0044 OF WHOSE DAILY ATTACKS ON WHALERS AND PERSONS SHIPWRECKED IN BAFFIN'S BAY 
     18802starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0045 AND ON THE COASTS OF GREENLAND AND SPITZBERGEN 
     18803starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0046 SHE HAD READ IN THE ACCOUNTS OF THOSE 
     18804starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0047 WHO HAD WINTERED IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS WAIT FOR THE WINTER MADAM 
     18805starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0048 REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT WAIT TILL THE COLD MAKES THEM HUNGRY 
     18806starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0049 AND THEN YOU WILL PERHAPS SEE AS MANY AS YOU CARE ABOUT 
     18807starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0050 ON THE TWENTY THIRD MAY AFTER A LONG AND FATIGUING JOURNEY 
     18808starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0051 THE EXPEDITION AT LAST REACHED THE ARCTIC CIRCLE 
     18809starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0052 WE KNOW THAT THIS LATITUDE 
     18810starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0053 TWENTY THREE DEGREES TWENTY SEVEN MINUTES FIFTY SEVEN SECONDS FROM THE NORTH POLE 
     18811starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0054 FORMS THE MATHEMATICAL LIMIT 
     18812starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0055 BEYOND WHICH THE RAYS OF THE SUN DO NOT PENETRATE IN THE WINTER 
     18813starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0056 WHEN THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF THE GLOBE ARE TURNED AWAY FROM THE ORB OF DAY 
     18814starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0057 HERE THEN THE TRAVELLERS ENTERED THE TRUE ARCTIC REGION 
     18815starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0058 THE NORTHERN FRIGID ZONE THE LATITUDE HAD BEEN VERY CAREFULLY OBTAINED 
     18816starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0059 BY MEANS OF MOST ACCURATE INSTRUMENTS 
     18817starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0060 WHICH WERE HANDLED WITH EQUAL SKILL BY THE ASTRONOMER 
     18818starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0061 AND BY LIEUTENANT HOBSON MRS BARNETT WAS PRESENT AT THE OPERATION 
     18819starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0062 AND HAD THE SATISFACTION OF HEARING 
     18820starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0063 THAT SHE WAS AT LAST ABOUT TO CROSS THE ARCTIC CIRCLE 
     18821starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0064 IT WAS WITH A FEELING OF JUST PRIDE THAT SHE RECEIVED THE INTELLIGENCE 
     18822starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0065 YOU HAVE ALREADY PASSED THROUGH THE TWO TORRID ZONES IN YOUR PREVIOUS JOURNEYS 
     18823starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0066 SAID THE LIEUTENANT AND NOW YOU ARE ON THE VERGE OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE 
     18824starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0067 FEW EXPLORERS HAVE VENTURED INTO SUCH TOTALLY DIFFERENT REGIONS 
     18825starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0068 SOME SO TO SPEAK HAVE A SPECIALTY FOR HOT COUNTRIES 
     18826starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0069 AND CHOOSE AFRICA OR AUSTRALIA AS THE FIELD FOR THEIR INVESTIGATIONS 
     18827starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0070 SUCH WERE BARTH BURTON LIVINGSTONE SPEKE DOUGLAS STUART ETC 
     18828starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0071 OTHERS ON THE CONTRARY HAVE A PASSION FOR THE ARCTIC REGIONS 
     18829starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0072 STILL SO LITTLE KNOWN MACKENZIE FRANKLIN PENNY KANE PARRY RAE ETC 
     18830starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0073 PRECEDED US ON OUR PRESENT JOURNEY BUT WE MUST CONGRATULATE YOU MRS BARNETT 
     18831starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0074 ON BEING A MORE COSMOPOLITAN TRAVELLER THAN ALL OF THEM 
     18832starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0075 I MUST SEE EVERYTHING OR AT LEAST TRY TO SEE EVERYTHING LIEUTENANT 
     18833starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0076 REPLIED MRS PAULINA AND I THINK THE DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES 
     18834starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0077 ARE ABOUT EQUAL EVERYWHERE 
     18835starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0078 ALTHOUGH WE HAVE NOT TO DREAD THE FEVERS OF THE UNHEALTHY TORRID REGIONS 
     18836starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0079 OR THE ATTACKS OF THE FIERCE BLACK RACES IN THIS FRIGID ZONE 
     18837starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0080 THE COLD IS A NO LESS FORMIDABLE ENEMY 
     18838starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0081 AND I SUSPECT THAT THE WHITE BEARS WE ARE LIABLE TO MEET WITH HERE 
     18839starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0082 WILL GIVE US QUITE AS WARM A RECEPTION AS WOULD THE TIERS OF THIBET 
     18840starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0083 OR THE LIONS OF AFRICA IN TORRID AND FRIGID ZONES ALIKE 
     18841starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0084 THERE ARE VAST UNEXPLORED TRACTS WHICH WILL LONG DEFY THE EFFORTS OF THE BOLDEST ADVENTURERS 
     18842starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0085 YES MADAM REPLIED JASPAR HOBSON BUT I THINK THE HYPERBOREAN REGIONS 
     18843starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0086 WILL LONGER RESIST THOROUGH EXPLORATION THE NATIVES ARE THE CHIEF OBSTACLE IN TROPICAL REGIONS 
     18844starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0087 AND I AM WELL AWARE HOW MANY TRAVELLERS HAVE FALLEN VICTIMS TO SAVAGES 
     18845starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0088 BUT CIVILISATION WILL NECESSARILY SUBDUE THE WILD RACES SOONER OR LATER 
     18846starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0089 WHEREAS IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ZONES IT IS NOT THE INHABITANTS 
     18847starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0090 WHO ARREST THE PROGRESS OF THE EXPLORER BUT NATURE HERSELF 
     18848starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0091 WHO REPELS THOSE WHO APPROACH HER 
     18849starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0092 AND PARALYSES THEIR ENERGIES WITH THE BITTER COLD 
     18850starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0093 YOU THINK THEN THAT THE SECRETS OF THE MOST REMOTE DISTRICTS OF AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA 
     18851starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0094 WILL HAVE BEEN FATHOMED BEFORE THE FRIGID ZONE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY EXAMINED 
     18852starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0095 YES MADAM REPLIED THE LIEUTENANT AND I THINK MY OPINION IS FOUNDED ON FACTS 
     18853starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0096 THE MOST INTREPID DISCOVERERS OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS PARRY PENNY FRANKLIN 
     18854starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0097 MCCLURE DANE AND MORTON DID NOT GET BEYOND EIGHTY THREE DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE 
     18855starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0098 SEVEN DEGREES FROM THE POLE 
     18856starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0099 WHEREAS AUSTRALIA HAS SEVERAL TIMES BEEN CROSSED FROM SOUTH TO NORTH BY THE BOLD STUART 
     18857starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0100 AND EVEN AFRICA WITH ALL ITS TERRORS WAS TRAVERSED BY LIVINGSTONE 
     18858starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0101 FROM THE BAY OF LOANGA TO THE MOUTH OF THE ZAMBESI 
     18859starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0102 WE ARE THEREFORE NEARER TO GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE EQUATORIAL COUNTRIES THAN OF THE POLAR DISTRICTS 
     18860starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0103 DO YOU THINK THAT THE POLE ITSELF WILL EVER BE REACHED BY MAN 
     18861starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0104 INQUIRED MRS PAULINA BARNETT CERTAINLY REPLIED HOBSON ADDING WITH A SMILE 
     18862starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0105 BY MAN OR WOMAN BUT I THINK OTHER MEANS MUST BE TRIED OF REACHING THIS POINT 
     18863starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0106 WHERE ALL THE MERIDIANS OF THE GLOBE CROSS EACH OTHER 
     18864starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0107 THAN THOSE HITHERTO ADOPTED BY TRAVELLERS 
     18865starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0108 WE HEAR OF THE OPEN SEA OF WHICH CERTAIN EXPLORERS 
     18866starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0109 ARE SAID TO HAVE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE 
     18867starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0110 BUT IF SUCH A SEA FREE FROM ICE REALLY EXIST 
     18868starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0111 IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GET AT AND NO ONE CAN SAY POSITIVELY 
     18869starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0112 WHETHER IT EXTENDS TO THE NORTH POLE 
     18870starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0113 FOR MY PART I THINK AN OPEN SEA WOULD INCREASE RATHER THAN LESSEN THE DIFFICULTIES OF EXPLORERS 
     18871starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0114 AS FOR ME I WOULD RATHER COUNT UPON FIRM FOOTING 
     18872starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0115 WHETHER ON ICE OR ROCK ALL THE WAY 
     18873starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0116 THEN I WOULD ORGANISE SUCCESSIVE EXPEDITIONS ESTABLISHING DEPOTS OF PROVISIONS 
     18874starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0117 AND FUEL NEARER AND NEARER TO THE POLE 
     18875starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0118 AND SO WITH PLENTY OF TIME PLENTY OF MONEY 
     18876starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0119 AND PERHAPS THE SACRIFICE OF A GOOD MANY LIVES 
     18877starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0120 I SHOULD IN THE END SOLVE THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM 
     18878starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0121 I SHOULD I THINK AT LAST REACH THE HITHERTO INACCESSIBLE GOAL 
     18879starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0122 I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT LIEUTENANT SAID MRS BARNETT 
     18880starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0123 AND IF EVER YOU TRY THE EXPERIMENT 
     18881starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0124 I SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID TO JOIN YOU AND 
     18882starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0125 WOULD GLADLY GO TO SET UP THE UNION JACK AT THE NORTH POLE 
     18883starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0126 BUT THAT IS NOT OUR PRESENT OBJECT NOT OUR IMMEDIATE OBJECT MADAM 
     18884starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0127 REPLIED HOBSON BUT WHEN ONCE THE PROJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE REALISED 
     18885starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0128 WHEN THE NEW FORT HAS BEEN ERECTED ON THE CONFINES OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT 
     18886starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0129 IT MAY BECOME THE NATURAL STARTING POINT OF ALL EXPEDITIONS TO THE NORTH 
     18887starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0130 BESIDES SHOULD THE FUR YIELDING ANIMALS TOO ZEALOUSLY HUNTED 
     18888starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0131 TAKE REFUGE AT THE POLE WE SHOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW THEM 
     18889starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0132 UNLESS COSTLY FURS SHOULD GO OUT OF FASHION REPLIED MRS BARNETT 
     18890starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0133 O MADAM CRIED THE LIEUTENANT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SOME PRETTY WOMAN 
     18891starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0134 WHOSE WISH FOR A SABLE MUFF OR AN ERMINE TIPPET 
     18892starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0135 MUST BE GRATIFIED I AM AFRAID SO SAID MRS BARNETT LAUGHING 
     18893starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0136 AND PROBABLY THE FIRST DISCOVERER OF THE POLE 
     18894starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0137 WILL HAVE BEEN LED THITHER IN PURSUIT OF A SABLE OR A SILVER FOX 
     18895starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0138 THAT IS MY CONVICTION REPLIED HOBSON SUCH IS HUMAN NATURE 
     18896starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0139 AND GREED OF GAIN WILL ALWAYS CARRY A MAN FURTHER THAN ZEAL FOR SCIENCE 
     18897starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0140 WHAT DO YOU UTTER SUCH SENTIMENTS EXCLAIMED MRS BARNETT WELL MADAM 
     18898starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0141 WHAT AM I BUT AN EMPLOYEE OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY 
     18899starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0142 AND DOES THE COMPANY RISK ITS CAPITAL AND AGENTS 
     18900starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0143 WITH ANY OTHER HOPE THAN AN INCREASE OF PROFITS 
     18901starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0144 LIEUTENANT HOBSON SAID MRS BARNETT 
     18902starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0145 I THINK I KNOW YOU WELL ENOUGH TO ASSERT THAT ON OCCASION YOU WOULD BE READY TO DEVOTE BODY AND SOUL TO SCIENCE 
     18903starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0146 IF A PURELY GEOGRAPHICAL QUESTION CALLED YOU TO THE POLE 
     18904starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0147 I FEEL SURE YOU WOULD NOT HESITATE TO GO BUT 
     18905starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0148 SHE ADDED WITH A SMILE THE SOLUTION OF THIS GREAT PROBLEM 
     18906starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0149 IS STILL FAR DISTANT WE HAVE BUT JUST REACHED THE VERGE OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE BUT 
     18907starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0150 I HOPE WE MAY CROSS IT WITHOUT ANY VERY GREAT DIFFICULTY 
     18908starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0151 THAT I FEAR IS DOUBTFUL SAID THE LIEUTENANT 
     18909starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0152 WHO HAD BEEN ATTENTIVELY EXAMINING THE SKY DURING THEIR CONVERSATION 
     18910starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0153 THE WEATHER HAS LOOKED THREATENING FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS 
     18911starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0154 LOOK AT THE UNIFORMLY GREY HUE OF THE HEAVENS 
     18912starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0155 THAT MIST WILL PRESENTLY RESOLVE ITSELF INTO SNOW 
     18913starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0156 AND IF THE WIND SHOULD RISE EVER SO LITTLE 
     18914starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0157 WE SHALL HAVE TO BATTLE WITH A FEARFUL STORM 
     18915starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0158 I WISH WE WERE AT THE GREAT BEAR LAKE 
     18916starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0159 DO NOT LET US LOSE ANY TIME THEN 
     18917starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0160 SAID MRS BARNETT RISING GIVE THE SIGNAL TO START AT ONCE 
     18918starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0161 THE LIEUTENANT NEEDED NO URGING 
     18919starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0162 HAD HE BEEN ALONE OR ACCOMPANIED BY A FEW MEN AS ENERGETIC AS HIMSELF 
     18920starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0163 HE WOULD HAVE PRESSED ON DAY AND NIGHT 
     18921starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0164 BUT HE WAS OBLIGED TO MAKE ALLOWANCE FOR THE FATIGUE OF OTHERS 
     18922starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0165 ALTHOUGH HE NEVER SPARED HIMSELF 
     18923starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0166 HE THEREFORE GRANTED A FEW HOURS OF REST TO HIS LITTLE PARTY 
     18924starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0167 AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THREE IN THE AFTERNOON THAT THEY AGAIN SET 
     18925starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0168 OUT JASPAR HOBSON WAS NOT MISTAKEN IN PROPHESYING A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER 
     18926starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0169 IT CAME VERY SOON DURING THE AFTERNOON OF THE SAME DAY 
     18927starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0170 THE MIST BECAME THICKER AND ASSUMED A YELLOWISH AND THREATENING HUE 
     18928starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0171 THE LIEUTENANT ALTHOUGH VERY UNEASY ALLOWED NONE OF HIS ANXIETY TO APPEAR 
     18929starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0172 BUT HAD A LONG CONSULTATION WITH SERGEANT LONG 
     18930starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0173 WHILST THE DOGS OF HIS SLEDGE WERE LABORIOUSLY PREPARING TO START 
     18931starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0174 UNFORTUNATELY THE DISTRICT NOW TO BE TRAVERSED WAS VERY UNSUITABLE FOR SLEDGES 
     18932starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0175 THE GROUND WAS VERY UNEVEN RAVINES WERE OF FREQUENT OCCURRENCE 
     18933starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0176 AND MASSES OF GRANITE OR HALF THAWED ICEBERGS 
     18934starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0177 BLOCKED UP THE ROAD CAUSING CONSTANT DELAY 
     18935starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0178 THE POOR DOGS DID THEIR BEST 
     18936starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0179 BUT THE DRIVERS WHIPS NO LONGER PRODUCED ANY EFFECT UPON THEM 
     18937starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0180 AND SO THE LIEUTENANT AND HIS MEN WERE OFTEN OBLIGED TO WALK 
     18938starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0181 TO REST THE EXHAUSTED ANIMALS TO PUSH THE SLEDGES 
     18939starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0182 OR EVEN SOMETIMES TO LIFT THEM 
     18940starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0183 WHEN THE ROUGHNESS OF THE GROUND THREATENED TO UPSET THEM 
     18941starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0184 THE INCESSANT FATIGUE WAS HOWEVER BORNE BY ALL WITHOUT A MURMUR 
     18942starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0185 THOMAS BLACK ALONE ABSORBED IN HIS ONE IDEA 
     18943starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0186 NEVER GOT OUT OF HIS SLEDGE AND INDEED 
     18944starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0187 BE WAS SO CORPULENT THAT ALL EXERTION WAS DISAGREEABLE TO HIM 
     18945starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0188 THE NATURE OF THE SOIL CHANGED FROM THE MOMENT 
     18946starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0189 OF ENTERING THE ARCTIC CIRCLE SOME GEOLOGICAL CONVULSION HAD EVIDENTLY UPHEAVED 
     18947starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0190 THE ENORMOUS BLOCKS STREWN UPON THE SURFACE THE VEGETATION TOO 
     18948starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0191 WAS OF A MORE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER 
     18949starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0192 WHEREVER THEY WERE SHELTERED FROM THE KEEN NORTH WINDS 
     18950starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0193 THE FLANKS OF THE HILLS WERE CLOTHED NOT ONLY WITH SHRUBS 
     18951starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0194 BUT WITH LARGE TREES ALL OF THE SAME SPECIES 
     18952starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0195 PINES WILLOWS AND FIRS PROVING BY THEIR PRESENCE 
     18953starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0196 THAT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF VEGETATIVE FORCE IS RETAINED 
     18954starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0197 EVEN IN THE FRIGID ZONE JASPAR HOBSON 
     18955starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0198 HOPED TO FIND SUCH SPECIMENS OF THE ARCTIC FLORA 
     18956starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0199 EVEN ON THE VERGE OF THE POLAR SEA 
     18957starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0200 FOR THESE TREES WOULD SUPPLY HIM WITH WOOD TO BUILD HIS FORT 
     18958starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0201 AND FUEL TO WARM ITS INHABITANTS 
     18959starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0202 THE SAME THOUGHT PASSED THROUGH THE MINDS OF HIS COMPANIONS 
     18960starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0203 AND THEY COULD NOT HELP WONDERING AT THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THIS COMPARATIVELY FERTILE REGION 
     18961starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0204 AND THE LONG WHITE PLAINS STRETCHING BETWEEN THE GREAT SLAVE LAKE 
     18962starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0205 AND FORT ENTERPRISE AT NIGHT THE YELLOW MIST BECAME MORE OPAQUE 
     18963starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0206 THE WIND ROSE THE SNOW BEGAN TO FALL IN LARGE FLAKES 
     18964starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0207 AND THE GROUND WAS SOON COVERED WITH A THICK WHITE CARPET 
     18965starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0208 IN LESS THAN AN HOUR THE SNOW WAS A FOOT DEEP 
     18966starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0209 AND AS IT DID NOT FREEZE BUT REMAINED IN A LIQUID STATE 
     18967starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0210 THE SLEDGES COULD ONLY ADVANCE WITH EXTREME DIFFICULTY 
     18968starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0211 THE CURVED FRONTS STUCK IN THE SOFT SUBSTANCE 
     18969starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0212 AND THE DOGS WERE OBLIGED TO STOP AGAIN AND AGAIN 
     18970starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0213 TOWARDS EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING THE WIND BECAME VERY BOISTEROUS 
     18971starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0214 THE SNOW DRIVEN BEFORE IT WAS FLUNG UPON THE GROUND 
     18972starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0215 OR WHIRLED IN THE AIR FORMING ONE HUGE WHIRLPOOL 
     18973starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0216 THE DOGS BEATEN BACK BY THE SQUALL AND BLINDED WITH SNOW 
     18974starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0217 COULD ADVANCE NO FURTHER THE PARTY WAS THEN IN A NARROW GORGE BETWEEN HUGE ICEBERGS 
     18975starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0218 OVER WHICH THE STORM RAGED WITH FEARFUL FURY PIECES OF ICE 
     18976starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0219 BROKEN OFF BY THE HURRICANE WERE HURLED INTO THE PASS 
     18977starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0220 PARTIAL AVALANCHES ANY ONE OF WHICH 
     18978starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0221 COULD HAVE CRUSHED THE SLEDGES AND THEIR INMATES 
     18979starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0222 ADDED TO ITS DANGERS AND TO PRESS ON BECAME IMPOSSIBLE 
     18980starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0223 THE LIEUTENANT NO LONGER INSISTED AND AFTER CONSULTING WITH SERGEANT LONG 
     18981starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0224 GAVE THE ORDER TO HALT 
     18982starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0225 IT WAS NOW NECESSARY TO FIND A SHELTER FROM THE SNOW DRIFT 
     18983starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0226 BUT THIS WAS NO DIFFICULT MATTER TO MEN ACCUSTOMED TO POLAR EXPEDITIONS 
     18984starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0227 JASPAR HOBSON AND HIS MEN KNEW WELL WHAT THEY HAD TO DO UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES 
     18985starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0228 IT WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME THEY HAD BEEN SURPRISED BY A TEMPEST 
     18986starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0229 SOME HUNDRED MILES FROM THE FORTS OF THE COMPANY 
     18987starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0230 WITHOUT SO MUCH AS AN ESQUIMAUX HUT 
     18988starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0231 OR INDIAN HOVEL IN WHICH TO LAY THEIR HEADS TO 
     18989starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0232 THE ICEBERGS TO THE ICEBERGS CRIED JASPAR HOBSON 
     18990starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0233 EVERY ONE UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE MEANT 
     18991starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0234 SNOW HOUSES WERE TO BE HOLLOWED OUT OF THE FROZEN MASSES 
     18992starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0235 OR RATHER HOLES WERE TO BE DUG IN WHICH EACH PERSON 
     18993starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0236 COULD COWER UNTIL THE STORM WAS OVER KNIVES AND HATCHETS 
     18994starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0237 WERE SOON AT WORK ON THE BRITTLE MASSES OF ICE 
     18995starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0238 AND IN THREE QUARTERS OF AN HOUR 
     18996starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0239 SOME TEN DENS HAD BEEN SCOOPED OUT LARGE ENOUGH TO CONTAIN TWO OR THREE PERSONS EACH 
     18997starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0240 THE DOGS WERE LEFT TO THEMSELVES 
     18998starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0241 THEIR OWN INSTINCT LEADING THEM TO FIND SUFFICIENT SHELTER UNDER THE SNOW 
     18999starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0242 BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK ALL THE TRAVELLERS WERE CROUCHING IN THE SNOW HOUSES 
     19000starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0243 IN GROUPS OF TWO OR THREE EACH CHOOSING CONGENIAL COMPANIONS 
     19001starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0244 MRS BARNETT MADGE AND LIEUTENANT HOBSON OCCUPIED ONE HUT 
     19002starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0245 THOMAS BLACK AND SERGEANT LONG ANOTHER AND SO ON 
     19003starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0246 THESE RETREATS WERE WARM IF NOT COMFORTABLE 
     19004starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0247 AND THE ESQUIMAUX AND INDIANS HAVE NO OTHER REFUGE EVEN IN THE BITTEREST COLD 
     19005starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0248 THE ADVENTURERS COULD THEREFORE FEARLESSLY AWAIT THE END OF THE STORM 
     19006starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0249 AS LONG AS THEY TOOK CARE NOT TO LET THE OPENINGS OF THEIR HOLES 
     19007starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0250 BECOME BLOCKED UP WITH THE SNOW 
     19008starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0251 WHICH THEY HAD TO SHOVEL AWAY EVERY HALF HOUR 
     19009starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0252 SO VIOLENT WAS THE STORM THAT EVEN THE LIEUTENANT AND HIS SOLDIERS 
     19010starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0253 COULD SCARCELY SET FOOT OUTSIDE FORTUNATELY ALL WERE PROVIDED WITH SUFFICIENT FOOD 
     19011starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0254 AND WERE ABLE TO ENDURE THEIR BEAVER LIKE EXISTENCE 
     19012starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0255 WITHOUT SUFFERING FROM COLD OR HUNGER 
     19013starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0256 FOR FORTY EIGHT HOURS THE FURY OF THE TEMPEST CONTINUED TO INCREASE 
     19014starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0257 THE WIND ROARED IN THE NARROW PASS 
     19015starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0258 AND TORE OFF THE TOPS OF THE ICEBERGS 
     19016starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0259 LOUD REPORTS REPEATED TWENTY TIMES BY THE ECHOES 
     19017starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0260 GAVE NOTICE OF THE FALL OF AVALANCHES AND JASPAR HOBSON 
     19018starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0261 BEGAN TO FEAR THAT HIS FURTHER PROGRESS 
     19019starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0262 WOULD BE BARRED BY THE MASSES OF DEBRIS ACCUMULATED BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS 
     19020starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0263 OTHER SOUNDS MINGLED WITH THESE REPORTS WHICH LIEUTENANT HOBSON KNEW TOO WELL 
     19021starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0264 AND HE DID NOT DISGUISE FROM MRS BARNETT 
     19022starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0265 THAT BEARS WERE PROWLING ABOUT THE PASS 
     19023starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0266 BUT FORTUNATELY THESE TERRIBLE ANIMALS WERE TOO MUCH OCCUPIED WITH THEIR OWN CONCERNS 
     19024starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0267 TO DISCOVER THE RETREAT OF THE TRAVELLERS 
     19025starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0268 NEITHER THE DOGS NOR THE SLEDGES BURIED IN THE SNOW 
     19026starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0269 ATTRACTED THEIR ATTENTION AND THEY PASSED ON WITHOUT DOING ANY HARM 
     19027starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0270 THE LAST NIGHT THAT OF THE TWENTY FIFTH OR TWENTY SIXTH MAY 
     19028starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0271 WAS EVEN MORE TERRIBLE SO GREAT WAS THE FURY OF THE HURRICANE 
     19029starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0272 THAT A GENERAL OVERTHROW OF ICEBERGS APPEARED IMMINENT A FEARFUL DEATH 
     19030starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0273 WOULD THEN HAVE AWAITED THE UNFORTUNATE TRAVELLERS 
     19031starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0274 BENEATH THE RUINS OF THE BROKEN MASSES 
     19032starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0275 THE BLOCKS OF ICE CRACKED WITH AN AWFUL NOISE 
     19033starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0276 AND CERTAIN OSCILLATIONS GAVE WARNING THAT BREACHES HAD BEEN MADE 
     19034starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0277 THREATENING THEIR SOLIDITY HOWEVER NO GREAT CRASH OCCURRED 
     19035starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0278 THE HUGE MOUNTAINS REMAINED INTACT AND TOWARDS THE END OF THE NIGHT 
     19036starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0279 ONE OF THOSE SUDDEN CHANGES SO FREQUENT IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS TOOK PLACE 
     19037starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0280 THE TEMPEST CEASED SUDDENLY BENEATH THE INFLUENCE OF INTENSE COLD 
     19038starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0281 AND WITH THE FIRST DAWN OF DAY PEACE WAS RESTORED 
     19039starlite-20070618-fur7/mfc/fur0282 END OF CHAPTER SEVEN