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Chapter Eighteen.
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The walk continued—Frozen toes—An encampment in the snow.
After quitting York Fort, the three friends followed the track leading to the spot where the winter’s firewood was cut. Snow was still falling thickly, and it was with some difficulty that the accountant kept in the right direction. The night was excessively dark, while the dense1 fir forest, through which the narrow road ran, rendered the gloom, if possible, more intense.
When they had proceeded about a mile, their leader suddenly came to a stand.
“We must quit the track now,” said he; “so get on your snow-shoes as fast as you can.”
Hitherto they had carried their snow-shoes under their arms, as the beaten track along which they travelled rendered them unnecessary; but now, having to leave the path and pursue the remainder of their journey through deep snow, they availed themselves of those useful machines by means of which the inhabitants of this part of North America are enabled to journey over many miles of trackless wilderness2, with nearly as much ease as a sportsman can traverse the moors3 in autumn, and that over snow so deep that one hour’s walk through it without such aids would completely exhaust the stoutest4 trapper, and advance him only a mile or so on his journey. In other words, to walk without snow-shoes would be utterly5 impossible, while to walk with them is easy and agreeable. They are not used, after the manner of skates, with a sliding, but a stepping action, and their sole use is to support the wearer on the top of snow, into which without them he would sink up to the waist. When we say that they support the wearer on the top of the snow, of course we do not mean that they literally6 do not break the surface at all. But the depth to which they sink is comparatively trifling7, and varies according to the state of the snow and the season of the year. In the woods they sink frequently about six inches, sometimes more, sometimes less; while on frozen rivers, where the snow is packed solid by the action of the wind, they sink only two or three inches, and sometimes so little as to render it preferable to walk without them altogether. Snow-shoes are made of a light, strong framework of wood, varying from three to six feet long by eighteen and twenty inches broad,
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复得( regain的现在分词 ); 赢回; 重回; 复至某地 | |
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v.看,注视,看到 | |
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sincerity
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knoll
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n.小山,小丘 | |
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rivulet
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n.小溪,小河 | |
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brook
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scampering
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