id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6137 Mawson, Douglas, Sir The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 .txt text/plain 231728 12444 76 Sastrugi furrowed by the mighty winds of the plateau, 250 miles S.S.E. of winter quarters, Adelie Land Working the sledge through broken sea ice, 46 miles off King George V Wild's party working their sledges through the crushed ice at the foot The wind was blowing at eighty miles per hour, making it tedious work half miles south of the Hut lying on the ice quite well, but there was reached the land just in time; and the sea-ice drifted away to the Next day the light was very bad and the wind fifty miles per hour. Next day the wind was due south at thirty miles per hour. fifty miles per hour, with scarce a day without drifting snow. At twelve miles, blue, wind-swept ice gave place to an almost flat snow ice in a fifty-mile wind with moderate drift close to the Hut and, on ./cache/6137.txt ./txt/6137.txt