The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... evidently to protect her in encounters with the ice , her false gripe , to give her plenty of fore - reach , convinced us that the work cut out for her was no child's play . Looking closer , we found her frame was coated with double ...
... evidently to protect her in encounters with the ice , her false gripe , to give her plenty of fore - reach , convinced us that the work cut out for her was no child's play . Looking closer , we found her frame was coated with double ...
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... evidently as anxious as we are to get away , and the scene is a stirring one as the sails are 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 ...
... evidently as anxious as we are to get away , and the scene is a stirring one as the sails are 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 ...
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... evidently anxious to linger as much as possible along shore , and all our efforts to draw them away from such allure- ments as held them enthralled proved unavailing , until we hit upon a plan which soon brought them to their senses ...
... evidently anxious to linger as much as possible along shore , and all our efforts to draw them away from such allure- ments as held them enthralled proved unavailing , until we hit upon a plan which soon brought them to their senses ...
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... evidently drifted from Iceland ; bits of whale - boats , reduced to matchwood by the frightful action of the boisterous seas ; fragments of wrecks of ships that once fought bravely against the ice , but , beaten at last in some dread ...
... evidently drifted from Iceland ; bits of whale - boats , reduced to matchwood by the frightful action of the boisterous seas ; fragments of wrecks of ships that once fought bravely against the ice , but , beaten at last in some dread ...
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... evidently of recent formation . Returning to the boat , we found our men in a state of great excitement ; they had returned from the chase of a little fox , which had occupied a good part of their FOX HUNTING . 99 time during our ...
... evidently of recent formation . Returning to the boat , we found our men in a state of great excitement ; they had returned from the chase of a little fox , which had occupied a good part of their FOX HUNTING . 99 time during our ...
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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