The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 54
Página 54
... 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 ...
Página 59
... 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 ...
Página 61
... 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 ...
Página 63
... 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 ...
Página 65
... 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 ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
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