The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... once " beset , " they must prepare to endure un- speakable privations . We laid in , on this account , many sea stores , which in our haste seemed to us absolutely essential for such a contingency , and others besides , that , had we ...
... once " beset , " they must prepare to endure un- speakable privations . We laid in , on this account , many sea stores , which in our haste seemed to us absolutely essential for such a contingency , and others besides , that , had we ...
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... once more set free . The pursuit of the seal at this early season ( in March ) is , therefore , an enterprise not unattended with danger -but the tempting wages paid to needy and adven- turous seamen on successful voyages always secures ...
... once more set free . The pursuit of the seal at this early season ( in March ) is , therefore , an enterprise not unattended with danger -but the tempting wages paid to needy and adven- turous seamen on successful voyages always secures ...
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... once he himself had incautiously stepped on to a huge mass , with the intention of shooting an Arctic bear , when the great berg , so finely balanced in the sea that it needed but the addition of his weight to make it come crashing down ...
... once he himself had incautiously stepped on to a huge mass , with the intention of shooting an Arctic bear , when the great berg , so finely balanced in the sea that it needed but the addition of his weight to make it come crashing down ...
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... once more shaken out to the morning breeze . The fishing smacks lay a little closer to the wind , but we soon overreach them , and the fine sailing qualities of our schooner are soon evident to all . There is a kind of pardonable pride ...
... once more shaken out to the morning breeze . The fishing smacks lay a little closer to the wind , but we soon overreach them , and the fine sailing qualities of our schooner are soon evident to all . There is a kind of pardonable pride ...
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... Once again we are under weigh , and scud- ding before a pleasant breeze , we pass the Bell Rock Lighthouse , which now supplies the necessary warn- ing formerly given by the famous Bell , whose curious history is recorded by Robert ...
... Once again we are under weigh , and scud- ding before a pleasant breeze , we pass the Bell Rock Lighthouse , which now supplies the necessary warn- ing formerly given by the famous Bell , whose curious history is recorded by Robert ...
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amongst animals Arctic circle Arctic seas Barentsz bear Beerenberg boat Cape Captain coast cold crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora force gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Kennedy Channel Lancaster Sound land latitude look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal North Somerset northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack Parry party Polar Pole present pursuit reached regions reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport steamer Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel voyage Waigatz walrus warm water weather whale wind winter
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