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THE BREEDING-GROUNDS OF THE SEAL.—A CURIOUS SIGHT.—A SHARP ENCOUNTER.—ICE CHANGES.
early the next morning the breakfast was hurried over, and a survey of the ice disclosed little change from the conditions of the day before, except that the natural attraction of floating bodies for each other was evidently slowly closing the pools and intervening channels.
Leaving Carlo to guard their dwelling2, and tying the black "McIntosh" blanket to the signal-staff, the four stepped into the somewhat narrow quarters of their clumsy boat, and using the oars3 as paddles, set off through a channel which led, as nearly as they could judge, in the direction of the field of seals seen the day before, and whose constant whining4 still gave evidence of their close proximity5.
Scarcely two miles of tortuous6 winding7 through channels of perfectly8 calm water, led them into a pool in which hundreds of large seals were disporting9 themselves, but which, on seeing the boat, scattered[Pg 231] in all directions, after a moment of stupidly curious exposure to the fire of the intruders.
"How lucky it is that these animals don't know their own power!" said Waring. "If they chose they could soon upset the boat, and tear us in pieces."
"Not without losing at least half a dozen of their leaders, and that is generally sufficient to deter10 hundreds of men, whose reasoning powers are much superior to these amphibia," said La Salle.
Passing into a narrow channel, in which at every turn they came close upon swimming and sleeping seals, they suddenly swept up to the
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harp
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proximity
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tortuous
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hoarse
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floe
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glacier
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fathoms
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ascending
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plentiful
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porpoises
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artillery
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sullen
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| adj.愠怒的,闷闷不乐的,(天气等)阴沉的 | |
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peril
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hesitation
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shuffled
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forth
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skull
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reverberated
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| 回响,回荡( reverberate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使反响,使回荡,使反射 | |
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vomiting
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| 吐 | |
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torrents
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| n.倾注;奔流( torrent的名词复数 );急流;爆发;连续不断 | |
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ponderous
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bruised
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| [医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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gore
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arteries
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deluging
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| v.使淹没( deluge的现在分词 );淹没;被洪水般涌来的事物所淹没;穷于应付 | |
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crimson
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vapors
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lessened
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eluded
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scorched
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hooded
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survivors
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axe
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massacre
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monstrous
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mounds
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juncture
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concussion
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grumbled
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uncertainty
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flaying
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circumference
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vessels
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surmounted
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excellence
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reindeer
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gathering
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