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No less than four times this man was found by other travelers in an exhausted condition, not far from complete collapse, and assisted to a stopping place. He lost three dogs, and suffered terribly himself from frost-bite.
And this drew from the boatswain the sad fate of a comrade of his, who had sailed twice round the world, been ship-wrecked four times, in three collisions, and twice aboard ships that took fire, had Yellow Jack in the West Indies, and sunstroke at the Cape, lost a middle finger from frost-bite in the north of China, and one eye in a bit of a row at San Francisco, and came safe home after it all, and married a snug widow in a pork-shop at Wapping Old Stairs, and got out of his course steering home through a London fog on Guy Fawkes Day, and walked straight into the river, and was found at low tide next morning with a quid of tobacco in his cheek, and nothing missing about him but his glass eye, which shows, as the boatswain said, that "Fogs is fogs anywhere, and a nasty thing too."
Who can fail to picture to himself the rude expulsion of the Princess des Ursins from the Queen's apartment in her full dress of ceremony, suddenly packed off in a carriage, without proper clothing or change of linen, and without money, to be whirled away through a winter's night so severe that her driver lost one of his hands from frost-bite, over mountain passes where the roads had disappeared beneath the snow, towards an unknown destination?
Now, it is a fact that if one can wear soft foot-gear exclusively the risk of frost-bite is far less than if one is compelled to wear stiff boots; in soft foot-gear, of course, the foot can move far more easily and keep warm. But we were to take ski and to get full use out of them, so that in any case we had to have a stiff sole for the sake of the bindings.
"Well, let's get started," he said. "Started hell!" Shorty exploded. "We stay right here an' rest you up an' feed you up for a couple of days." Smoke shook his head. "If you could just see yourself," Shorty protested. And what he saw was not nice. Smoke's face, wherever the skin showed, was black and purple and scabbed from repeated frost-bite.
It is true that eight ounces of salt meat did not go far in enabling us to live and to resist the severe cold. We were quite weak, and, because of our weakness, we frosted easily. Noses and cheeks were all black with frost-bite. It was impossible to be warm, although we now had double the garments we had started with.
Urquhart confined himself to the two boys, and told them about the Folgefond of its unknown depth, of the crevasses, of the glacier on its western edge, of certain white snakes, bred by the snow, which might be found there. Their bite was death, he said. "Frost-bite," said Patrick Nugent, who knew his uncle's way; but Lancelot favoured his mother. "Hoo!" he said.
Bjerregrav, with an afflicted expression, looked first at one, then at another. "And they get frost-bite in their feet and their toes have to be amputated in some cases, the whole foot." "No, be quiet! So they lose their health, poor fellows! I don't want to hear any more!" The old man sat rocking himself to and fro, as though he felt unwell.
On account of the anæsthetic action of carbolic acid, the onset of the process is painless, and the patient does not realise his danger. A line of demarcation soon forms, but the dead part separates very slowly. #Gangrene from Frost-bite.# It is difficult to draw the line between the third degree of chilblain and the milder forms of true frost-bite; the difference is merely one of degree.
She bent over and pulled back the furs, disclosing a face composed principally of large, staring, black eyes, and of skin, dark and scabbed by repeated frost-bite, tightly stretched across the bones. "If it ain't Alonzo!" she cried. "You pore, starved devil!" "That's the man on the other bank," Smoke said in an undertone to Breck.
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