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The expressions "to the right" and "to the left" I have never heard, for it is the custom to say "go to the east-south" or to the "west-north," as the case may be. Even in cities, when asking your way, the natives will direct you by the points of the compass rather than by the names of the streets.
Stenhouse continued to nurse his moorings against the onslaughts of the ice during the rest of April and the early days of May. The break- away from the shore came suddenly and unexpectedly on the evening of May 6: "May 6, 1915. Fine morning with light breezes from east-south- east.... 3.30 p.m. Ice nearly finished. Sent hands ashore for sledge- load. 4 p.m.
Over 17 per cent of the persons in the east-south Central States have never been to school. Approximately 16 per cent of the people of Passaic, N.J., must deal with their fellow workers and employers through interpreters. And 13 per cent of the folk in Lawrence and Fall River, Mass., are utter strangers in a strange land.
For whereas my last conscious memory of the weather, before succumbing to the blandishments of the drowsy god, had been merely that of a lowering, overcast sky, that might portend anything, but probably meant no more than a sharp thunder- squall, I now awakened to the consciousness that the firmament above consisted of a vast curtain of frowning, murky, black-grey cloud, streaked or furrowed in a very remarkable manner from about east-south- east to west-nor'-west, the lower edges of the clouds presenting a curious frayed appearance, while the clouds themselves glowed here and there with patches of lurid, fiery red, as though each bore within its bosom a fiercely burning furnace, the ruddy light of which shone through in places.
Here we parted with our friends the blacks, who made off in an east-south- easterly direction. The dominant feeling within me as I saw the white men ride off was one of uncontrollable rage and mad despair. I was apparently a pariah, with the hand of every white man when I met one against me. "Well," I thought, "if civilisation is not prepared to receive me, I will wait until it is."
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