A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado

A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado

Somewhere near midnight in January 1897, a manimportant to this little historystood on an expanse of glittering snow, amidst low forest-covered hills and rugged mountains which were draped in the same white garb. He was looking eagerly towards the north-west, and was listening intently. This man was muffled to the eyes in furs, he wore a rough bearskin coat, and his head was enveloped in a huge capote. He wore snow-shoes, and a gun lay across his arm. He was a large man really, but the immensity of his surroundings, the vast field of dazzling snow on which he stood, made him appear to be a pigmy, whilst his loneliness and solitude gave a note of unutterable melancholy to the scene. Several minutes passed, neither dog nor man moving from this attitude of strained attention. All nature was absolutely motionless; no branch stirred in the near forest, nor was one flake of snow wafted by the softest zephyryet there was no silence. The far-off woods resounded with frequent sharp reports, as if firearms were being discharged there, the nearer rocks and trees from time to time gave forth detonations like fusilades of musketry, and beneath his feethe stood on a broad space of water, turned to ice of unknown depth, cushioned deep with snowwere groanings, grindings, cracklings, and explosions. It was the terrible arctic cold that caused this tumult. One could almost fancy that these two figures, silhouetted black against the dazzling white, were frozen solid too. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 36577
Author: Roper, Edward
Release Date: Jul 2, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English