I have been working very hard at sledgingfigures with Bowers' able assistance.
Campbell and his sledging party arrived at the Camp at 8.
He has never been worth much since, but remained lively in spite of all the hardships of sledging work.
Like Bowers he has taken to sledging like a duck to water, and although he hasn't had such severe testing, I believe he would stand it pretty nearly as well.
Impressions The more I think of our sledgingoutfit the more certain I am that we have arrived at something near a perfect equipment for civilised man under such conditions.
This is satisfactory, as sledging can now be conducted on ordinary lines, and if convenient our parties can pull on ski.
Sledging began as usual this morning; seven ponies and the dog teams were hard at it all the forenoon.
This morning he asked for food, which is a good sign, and he was anxious to know if his sledging gear was being got ready.
Apart from sledging considerations the weather is wonderful.
Evans and Crean are repairing sleeping-bags, covering felt boots, and generally working on sledging kit.
To-morrow is to be our first rest day, but next week everything will be tending towards sledging preparations.
Evans, and I donned our sledging kit and camped by the bergs for the benefit of Ponting and his cinematograph; he got a series of films which should be about the most interesting of all his collection.
Our canine force numbers twenty-four serviceable dogs and six puppies; but these, I fear, will not be strong enough for sledgingby March.
In addition to taking on board the surplus stores from the Valorous, the two Arctic ships also took on board teams of dogs for sledging purposes.
With the beginning of spring active preparations were made for the sledging trips, which were to carry out the work of surveying the surrounding land and penetrating farther to the North than it was possible for the vessels to go.
As dogs were required for the sledging expedition, constant bartering went on between the Eskimo and the white men, and the latter undertook occasional journeys to localities where other members of the tribe were encamped.
It may be hoped, in any case, that it will be possible to interpolate the atmospheric pressure at sea-level in all parts of the Antarctic continent that were traversed by the sledging expeditions.
After sledging along the rim of it for a half mile they located a natural bridge of ice over which they crossed without mishap.
This is what he imagined: Two men, sledging over an uncharted land in the teeth of a blinding blizzard.
After following the seashore a little way they cut inland at an angle, and after about an hour’s sledging struck the trail made by a dog team and three men.
But he constantly told us to go on and search as much as we thought necessary, and leave the sledging to him; he would do the best he could.
Toolooah reported the land sledging in good condition toward the south-east, much better than upon the river, and said there appeared to be plenty of game a day's march from the river in that direction.
We emerged upon Cockburn Bay soon after starting, and crossed to the southern shore by noontime, a distance of about nine miles, our rapid moving being entirely owing to the superiority of the sledging on salt-water ice.
The sledging was simply awful, and poor Toolooah was having a hard time of it and without a murmur or discontented look.
By the 14th of October the sledging was sufficiently good for Toolooah to go to Cape Herschel and Terror Bay for the sled and other articles that were left there during the summer for the want of transportation.
It was now quite evident that our sledging was over for the season, and we were stuck here with all our heavy stuff.
The next day a storm kept us in camp, but on the 9th we pulled out again and found the sledging in a most wretched condition.
Meanwhile it was not so much the difficulties of sledging as the depressing blank conditions in which our march was so often made, that gave us such troubles as we had.
His colour is clear, his brush-work clean: and he handled sledging subjects with the vigour of a professional who knew all there was to be known about a sledging life.
When Campbell originally landed at Evans Coves he brought with him sledging provisions for six weeks, in addition to two weeks' provisions for six men, 56 lbs.
Spring Party to be awaysledging and they were in daylight.
We were very silent, it was not very easy to talk: but sledgingis always a silent business.
The ordinary routine of scientific and meteorological observations usual with all Scott's sledging parties was observed.
Sledging he went harder than any man of whom I have ever heard.
This short bit of Barrier sledging gave all of us food for thought, for the surface was appallingly soft, and the poor ponies were sinking deep.
Our sledging supplies were mostly exhausted and we depended upon the seals we could kill for food, fuel and light.
Sledging Spoon, Pannikin and Cup, which pack into the inner Cooker.
I have spoken of the drawings which he made when sledging or when otherwise engaged away from painting facilities, as at Hut Point.
And why should three sane and common-sense explorers be sledging away on a winter's night to a Cape which has only been visited before in daylight, and then with very great difficulty?
Sledging takes the place of driving through the winter months.
From Issortuqdjuaq a narrow isthmus offering a goodsledging road is used in visiting the head of Qaggilortung.
An ice-foot was formed by the tides along shore, and over this the wintersledging was begun by short excursions to bait the fox traps and gather the foxes.
A persistent southerly wind had packed the channel with a jam of small ice, over which the effort of sledging was a hopeless task.
A weakling would easily be killed, but a strong man is splendidly hardened and kept in perfect physical trim by sledging and tramping in this germless air.
The sledging season, when such a "dash" is possible, extends from about the middle of February until the middle of June.
Goodsell's journal is so typical of the chief troubles of any arctic sledging journey that it is worth repeating here.
Nor must we allow ourselves to imagine that sledging is a very safe mode of carriage; the snow-storms cause great disasters, and if the winter be at all rigorous, an enormous number of draught oxen are lost.
We had a Russian family for two months at Clarofka, returning from the waters of the Caucasus, and waiting until the sledging season was fully set in, to get back to Moscow.
From this journey, as stated, we evolved the final sledging ration for the Summit, it was to consist of: 16 ozs.
Whilst moving the sledging stores to Safety Camp, as we called the depot, two miles in, we came across two tents left by Shackleton two or three years before.
They only had their light summer sledging clothes to wear, and these soon became saturated with blubber: their hair and beards grew, and they were soon recognisable only by their voices.
All the ponies were white, animals of this colour being accepted as harder than others for snow work, and the dogs were as fine a pack as one could select for hard sledging and rough times.
Clearly, there was nothing for us but to abandon science and go for the Pole directly the season for sledging was advanced enough to make travelling possible after the winter.
On this account the party were unable to accomplish any serious sledging whilst landed here.
After an examination of this ice mass the party pressed on past Spike Point to Dunlop Island, sledging coastwise parallel to the Piedmont Glacier, named by Griffith Taylor after Dr.
Uncle Bill was cook, and I must say the first sledging supper was delightful.
Scott described our sledging here as "exceedingly good going," we were only just starting, that is Lashly and myself, for we two were in harness for more than three months on end.
For this reason the short autumn journeys had been undertaken to test the equipment as well as to give us sledging experience and carry weights of stores out on to the Barrier.
January 16 was a pleasant day, its ending peaceful, with a sufficiency of excellent sledging rations and the promise of a similar day to succeed it.
Wright lived in the bunk above Simpson's, and when not devoting his energy and magnificent physique to sledging and field work, he gave himself up to the study of ice physics, a somewhat new scientific line of research.
Out went Bill, of course, without the slightest notion of coming back; no more than Nick had that he could not give up the sledging, and indeed neither could he, but was forced to work away as if he was sledging for a wager.
He then gave the bellows a puff that blew half a peck of dust in Club-foot's face, whipped out the red-hot iron, and set Satan sledging away for bare life.
Lastly he must train the Eskimos so that they should become his sledging crew.
Then the principal adventure of the whole cruise was undertaken--a great sledging journey towards the Pole itself.
The great snowstorm of the previous winter McBain judged, and rightly too, would be in favour of the expedition; it smoothed the roughness of the ice, and made sledging even pleasurable.
In the severest cold they indulge in sledging parties, either by day or with torches at night.
Parry, by sledging on the ice when his ship became fast, succeeded in touching 82 deg.
Parry in his splendid voyage of 1827 spent months in sledging northward on a vast ice-floe which all the while was drifting south faster than the dogs could drag the sledges northward.
Sledging on the snow was an habitual pastime at Vienna, where the cold is more severe than at Paris; nor in former years had sledges been wholly unknown in the Bois de Boulogne.
Then without much warning a great fleecy wrap of snow fell over everything, but the sledging and the shouting had as much merriment in it.
Out on the pond skating, or in the merry sledging parties, she had managed to evade any special overtures.
After his return from a few days' sledging journey, he was suddenly taken ill.
We have not space to follow all the sledging expeditions.
On the 2nd of March the sun shone brightly, and the sledging was arranged for.
In May, Tyson, Meyers, and the two Esquimaux started on a sledging expedition, and got some musk oxen.
During these autumn sledging journeys, with the temperature ranging between 15 deg.
Numerous sledging parties were despatched from the various ships above-named, but without obtaining any further information regarding Franklin.
Lieutenant Payer, while out on a sledging expedition, made an important discovery.
In the winter of 1874 severalsledging parties were sent out.
After some further discussion it was resolved to cross the bay in which they now were to its northern headland, and thence despatch sledging parties in quest of a suitable spot to "dock" the brig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sledging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
