Arriving at the place he inspected if attentively, examined all its cracks, inserted a stick into a crevice which he found near the bottom, and carefully measured its depths; afterwards he returned slowly to the camp and, opening the cartridge box, began to count the cartridges.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Beyond them were twenty Eskimo huts, nearly square in shape, constructed of wood and stone, the cracks of which were filled tightly with moss.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
By this he can see the open cracks between snow blocks.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook