The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar and Equatorial Regions of the GlobeBill, Nichols & Company, 1872 - 761 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aleuts animal appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Castrén chief climate coast cold color Cossacks covered desert distance dogs Esquimaux expedition feet fish forest frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses hunters Iceland Icelandic horses inches Indian inhabitants Innuits insects island Jakut Jenissei journey lake land Lapland Lapp latitude leaves length less Middendorff miles mountains natives nest night northern Norway Nova Zembla Obdorsk ocean Ostiaks plants Polar prey reached regions reindeer rise river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seen ship shores Siberia side Sir James Ross skin sledge snow sometimes soon species Spitzbergen spot Straits stream summer surface temperature thick Tobolsk traveller trees tribes tropical tundra vast vegetation versts voyage walrus whole wild wind winter wonderful wood Yermak
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Página 142 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Página 167 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 364 - W., after having ascended Wellington Channel to lat. 77°, and returned by the west side of Cornwallis Island. Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition. All well. Party consisting of 2 officers and 6 men left the ships on Monday 24th May, 1847.
Página 725 - Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Página 702 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, but feel not the knife. This singular ccnN 2 dition was not the result of any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense...
Página 701 - Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Página 599 - And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Página 679 - His eyes began to flash fiercer fire as we stood motionless on the defensive, and the crest of short hair which stands on his forehead began to twitch rapidly up and down, while his powerful fangs were shown as he again sent forth a thunderous roar. And now, truly...
Página 694 - If the bird wished to descend, the wings were for a moment collapsed; and then when again expanded with an altered inclination, the momentum gained by the rapid descent seemed to urge the bird upwards, with the even and steady movement of a paper kite. In the case of any bird soaring, its motion must be sufficiently rapid, so that the action of the inclined surface of its body on the atmosphere may counterbalance its gravity.
Página 362 - ... under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions. Of those found on the island, one was supposed to have been an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over his shoulders and his doublebarrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of many of the corpses...