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... yet possessed of unusual interest . “ It consists of some 300 kinds of flowering
plants ( besides a very large number of mosses , algæ , lichens , & c . ) , and
presented the following peculiarities : - ( 1 . ) The flowering plants were , War
almost ...
... yet possessed of unusual interest . “ It consists of some 300 kinds of flowering
plants ( besides a very large number of mosses , algæ , lichens , & c . ) , and
presented the following peculiarities : - ( 1 . ) The flowering plants were , War
almost ...
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We hastened to say good - bye to such of our friends as we considered might
take some slight interest in our welfare , and from them we received in turn hearty
assurance of good wishes , with predictions that the voyage we were about to ...
We hastened to say good - bye to such of our friends as we considered might
take some slight interest in our welfare , and from them we received in turn hearty
assurance of good wishes , with predictions that the voyage we were about to ...
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... of the curious and ever - changing phenomena of the Arctic weather in relation
to the movements of the ice in the far north ( a knowledge to be gained only by
long experience and the keenest interest in the subject ) would have been to us
of ...
... of the curious and ever - changing phenomena of the Arctic weather in relation
to the movements of the ice in the far north ( a knowledge to be gained only by
long experience and the keenest interest in the subject ) would have been to us
of ...
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Quite a crowd of people composed of the friends of the hardy sailors who are to
accompany us , and of others , nautically inclined , who seem to take a lively
interest in a journey they do not hesitate to speculate on freely , all day long stand
...
Quite a crowd of people composed of the friends of the hardy sailors who are to
accompany us , and of others , nautically inclined , who seem to take a lively
interest in a journey they do not hesitate to speculate on freely , all day long stand
...
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learn enough to gather that these voyages have in no wise fallen off in point of
interest since the earliest exploits in these seas were recorded . Eddy and Byers (
our harpooners ) told us of one encounter nous with a whale in a previous ...
learn enough to gather that these voyages have in no wise fallen off in point of
interest since the earliest exploits in these seas were recorded . Eddy and Byers (
our harpooners ) told us of one encounter nous with a whale in a previous ...
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animals appearance Arctic attempt bear boat called Captain carried cause CHAPTER clear close coast coming continued course crew Crown danger deer difficulty direction distance drift east effect escape evidently explored fact fall feet floating force formed four gained give Greenland hands head hope interest Island journey kind land latitude leave less look masses means miles mountain nature northern noticed object observed once ourselves party passed Polar Pole present probably proved pursuit reached regions remains rest rise rocks round sailed sailors schooner seal season seems seen ship shore short shot side sight soon Sound Spitzbergen sport Strait success surface temperature travelling turned vessel voyage warm weather whale whole wind winter
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to Spitzbergen |
| Autor | John Campion Wells |
| Editor | Henry S. King, 1873 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 26 Jun. 2006 |
| Largo | 355 páginas |
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