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The cold was to drive away the yellow fever, and the heat to cure us of frostbites, to which we might be subjected at Halifax or up the Saint Lawrence. We preferred, on the whole, the West Indies, for, being constantly at sea, we had not much sickness on board.
Corbett said, "I guess all the young fellows were makin' a lot of her, but sure there's no harm in that." Miss Thornley was too busy examining her feet for possible frostbites to give in her contribution just then, but after she had put her coldest foot in a wash-basin of water she said, "I don't see how any woman can go the length of her toe with Rance Belmont, but young Mrs.
Notwithstanding this precaution, which, however, saved many frostbites, we had an addition of no less than sixteen men to the sick lists of both ships in consequence of this accident.
Curiously enough Campbell's men sustained far more frostbites than we at Cape Evans did: in all my four Antarctic voyages I have never been frost-bitten beyond a touch here and there on the finger-tips working instruments, yet I occasionally now get chilblains in an ordinary English winter.
'Were I even to be dying from hunger, he said, 'or perishing from frostbites, and so much as a thousand taels were offered me for each single fan, I wouldn't part with them. Mr. Chia She could do nothing, but day after day he abused our Mr. Secundus as a good-for-nothing.
Those frostbites are eating in." "'Xpect so." "You ought to stop it. Make a guard." "Out of a snow-ball, or chunk o' ice?" "Cut a piece out o' the canvas o' the bag." But he didn't. The big sores seemed such small matters beside the vast overshadowing doubt, Shall we come out of this alive? doubt never to be openly admitted by him, but always knocking, knocking
It is not to be wondered at that there were times when, on reaching some distant wigwam, there were little hard, white spots on their cheeks or noses which told the watchful Indians that the Frost King had been at work and that speedily those frostbites must be removed. Little cared they for the momentary pain that ensued, when the frozen parts were being thawed out.
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