The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... 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 more time at our disposal ...
... 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 more time at our disposal ...
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... preparing to let drive at a stricken whale , she struck violently with her enormous tail ( we shall have something to say of whales ' tails presently ) , carrying away all the gunwale of the boat with one terrific blow , and had it not ...
... preparing to let drive at a stricken whale , she struck violently with her enormous tail ( we shall have something to say of whales ' tails presently ) , carrying away all the gunwale of the boat with one terrific blow , and had it not ...
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... safety of the other . There was no time to lose , therefore , and a bullet was lodged in the tough hide of the male . Down he plunged once more , but evidently hard hit . We prepare to harpoon him if he offers us the chance.
... safety of the other . There was no time to lose , therefore , and a bullet was lodged in the tough hide of the male . Down he plunged once more , but evidently hard hit . We prepare to harpoon him if he offers us the chance.
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A Voyage to Spitzbergen John Campion Wells. prepare to harpoon him if he offers us the chance , but being too far off for this attempt , we wound him again , and again he disappears . The sailor gives way with a will , and on his again ...
A Voyage to Spitzbergen John Campion Wells. prepare to harpoon him if he offers us the chance , but being too far off for this attempt , we wound him again , and again he disappears . The sailor gives way with a will , and on his again ...
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... preparing for their escape in such boats as were left ; and when every- thing that could be thought of had been done and all was ready for a final leave - taking of their ship , the ice gave way with a crash that destroyed everything ...
... preparing for their escape in such boats as were left ; and when every- thing that could be thought of had been done and all was ready for a final leave - taking of their ship , the ice gave way with a crash that destroyed everything ...
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12 Paternoster Row 65 Cornhill amongst animals Arctic circle Author Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer Demy 8vo difficulty direction distance drift east Edition expedition explored fathoms fiord floating floe flora gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock Iceland Illustrated INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Lancaster Sound land latitude London look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla observed once open water ourselves Parry party Polar Pole present Price published by Henry pursuit reached region reindeer rocks round sailed sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner scientific seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledge Smith Sound snow southward Spitzbergen sport Strait surface temperature thick tion vessel vols Waigatz walrus WALTER BAGEHOT warm weather whale Willem Barentsz wind winter