The temperature fell to 36 degrees and would rise no more, while the solar rays, casting shadows of endless length upon the soil, gave hardly any heat.

The captain made us put on warm woollen clothes without waiting for the cold to become more severe.
Icebergs, packs, streams, and drifts came in greater numbers from the south.

Some of these struck and stayed upon the coast, which was already heaped up with ice, but the greater number disappeared in the direction of the north-east.
"All these pieces," said the boatswain, "will go to the closing up of the iceberg wall.

If Hearne and his lot of scoundrels are not ahead of them, I imagine they will find the door shut, and as they have no key to open it with--" "I suppose you think, boatswain, that our case is less desperate than theirs ?" "I do think so, Mr.Jeorling, and I have always thought so.

If everything had been done as it was settled, and the lot had fallen to me to go with the boat, I would have given up my turn to one of the others.