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...were our only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH | 3/31/1897 | See Source »

...were our only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping-bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 3/30/1897 | See Source »

...living accommodations in the hut which they built were not sumptuous. Here is the record: "For cooking, lighting and heating we used walrus blubber and bear's fat. Bear's fies and fat were our only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 3/29/1897 | See Source »

...Sophocles and Euripides were first brought out. In the earliest period there was only a simple, circular area; the spectators sat upon rows of wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century, was due the introduction, upon the edge of this circular area of a wooden hut, or skene. This was the origin of the "stage" building. In the fourth century the theatre was rebuilt in stone, but a wooden proscenium was retained. At a later date this proscenium was rebuilt in stone. It is in the Roman epoch that we find the elevated stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRE AT ATHENS. | 10/20/1896 | See Source »

Hits - Pennsylvania, 9; Georgetown, 10. Errors - Pennsylvania, 3; Georgetown, 4. Batteries - Schoen hut and Reuning; Mahoney and Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Georgetown, 7; Pennsylvania, 6. | 5/7/1895 | See Source »

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