The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... continued into the south end of Banks's Land or Baring's Island . He then passed through Prince of Wales's Strait , and got stopped by the ice in Parry's Sound . He wintered in the strait , and explored portions of the northern part of ...
... continued into the south end of Banks's Land or Baring's Island . He then passed through Prince of Wales's Strait , and got stopped by the ice in Parry's Sound . He wintered in the strait , and explored portions of the northern part of ...
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... named Young's Cape . He continued on a N.N.E. course , and at his farthest point , which he considered to be 73 ° N. , he saw land , which he called INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . Hold - with - Hope . 25 24 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... named Young's Cape . He continued on a N.N.E. course , and at his farthest point , which he considered to be 73 ° N. , he saw land , which he called INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER . Hold - with - Hope . 25 24 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... continued for nearly a week in a general northerly bearing , and on June 27 again saw land , which he named Newland or Greenland , but which seems to have been Spitzbergen , near Vogelhoek , in 78 ° 53 ′ N. For the next fortnight he ...
... continued for nearly a week in a general northerly bearing , and on June 27 again saw land , which he named Newland or Greenland , but which seems to have been Spitzbergen , near Vogelhoek , in 78 ° 53 ′ N. For the next fortnight he ...
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... continued to its remains . Nature had composed its limbs in placid repose , and a suitable site being found in which to deposit the dust , it was suitably interred . There was as much propriety in the mourners as is displayed by needy ...
... continued to its remains . Nature had composed its limbs in placid repose , and a suitable site being found in which to deposit the dust , it was suitably interred . There was as much propriety in the mourners as is displayed by needy ...
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... continued to wage successful sport with the scals all day , and at five in the following morning , at a council of war , we decided that , as our object was not so much to fill our ship with blubber as to get on with our sounding ...
... continued to wage successful sport with the scals all day , and at five in the following morning , at a council of war , we decided that , as our object was not so much to fill our ship with blubber as to get on with our sounding ...
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