This journey to land's end would also afford a test of every article of equipment needed in the field work, and would enable us to choose finally from a selected number of Eskimos those most able to endure the rigors of the unlimited journey which lay before us.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Nor were passengers exempt from the rigors of search and plunder.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Eight months, therefore, is the term of the mackerel fishing, and the men engaged in it escape the bitterest rigors of the winter fisheries on the Newfoundland Banks, where the cod is taken from January to January.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot