 | English literature - 1822 - 1148 pages
...by walking in snow-shoes appears to be dreadful, and, as Captain Franklin says,' can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles.' This mode of travelling is feelingly described by Lieutenant Hood. ' The miseries endured during the... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 582 pages
...by walking in snow-shoes appears to be dreadful, and, as Captain Franklin says, ' can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles.' This mode of travelling is feelingly described by Lieutenant Hood. ' The miseries endured during the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 580 pages
...by walking in snow-shoes appears to be dreadful, and, as Captain Franklin says, ' can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles.' This mode of travelling is feelingly described by Lieutenant Hood. ' The miseries endured during the... | |
 | Sir John Franklin - Arctic regions - 1824 - 406 pages
...walking in snowshoes must be considered as prominent. The suffering it occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...only will enable the novice to surmount this pain. The next evil is the being constantly exposed to witness the wanton and unnecessary cruelty of the... | |
 | Sir John Franklin - Arctic regions - 1824 - 404 pages
...walking in snow-shoes must be considered as prominent. The suffering it occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...only will enable the novice to surmount this pain. The next evil is the being constantly exposed to witness the wanton and unnecessary cruelty of the... | |
 | Llewelyn Lloyd - Fishing - 1830 - 484 pages
...speaking of the snow-shoe, says on that subject. " The sufferings on these occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...pounds constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ancles. Perseverance and practice only will enable the novice to surmount this pain." Again. —" The... | |
 | Llewelyn Lloyd - Hunting - 1831 - 454 pages
...speaking of the snow-shoe, says on that subject. " The sufferings on these occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of marching with a weight of between two or three pounds constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles. Perseverance and practice only... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 574 pages
...suffering occasioned by walking in snowshoes appears to be dreadful, " and can be but faintly imagined bv a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of marching...constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles." But Mr. Hood will best describe it. " The miseries endured during the first journey of this nature... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 400 pages
...dreadful, "and can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of inarching with a weight of between two and three pounds constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles." But Mr. Hood will best describe it. " The miseries endured during the first journey of this nature... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 pages
...travelling over a distance of one thousand one hundred and four miles, in snow shoes " can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience...constantly attached to galled feet and swelled ankles," which mark his weary track with blood ; well indeed may Sir John Franklin say " I had every reason... | |
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The suffering it occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of marching with a weight of between two and three pounds constantly attached to galled feet, and swelled ankles. 
