| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1860 - 336 páginas
...cannot do better than quote Parry's graphic di .Tiption of this novel course of proceeding : — " Travelling by night, and sleeping by day, so completely...ourselves of the reality. Even the officers and myself H2 who were all furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1875 - 466 páginas
...cannot do better than quote Parry's graphic description of this novel course of proceeding : — " Travelling by night, and sleeping by day, so completely...ourselves of the reality. Even the officers and myself H'2 who were all furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1886 - 682 páginas
...cannot do better than quote Parry's graphic description of this novel course of proceeding : " Traveling by night, and sleeping by day, so completely inverted...could not always bear in mind at what part of the twenty-hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men who declared, and I believe truly,... | |
| Helen Saunders Wright - 1910 - 622 páginas
...to reverse the usual course of life. "Travelling by night and sleeping by day," writes Captain Parry "so completely inverted the natural order of things...pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at which part of the twenty-four hours we had arrived ; and there were several of the men who declared,... | |
| 1828 - 722 páginas
...from the snow being harder at night for travelling. This travelling by night, and sleeping by day, to completely inverted the natural order of things, that it was difficult to penuade ourselves of tho reality. Even the officers aod myself, who MCI.all furnished with pocket chronometers,... | |
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