The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... sport ; if the formidable if the formidable array of whaling and sealing weapons , as well as the well appointed armoury , could be any guarantee for our success . We have much serious work to occupy us as well ; the many costly ...
... sport ; if the formidable if the formidable array of whaling and sealing weapons , as well as the well appointed armoury , could be any guarantee for our success . We have much serious work to occupy us as well ; the many costly ...
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... sport , we could see the peculiar inclination forwards which formed the first part of the curve in which the drive is made . The odour of a whale is most unpleasant , and he leaves a slimy track behind him , just such a track as some ...
... sport , we could see the peculiar inclination forwards which formed the first part of the curve in which the drive is made . The odour of a whale is most unpleasant , and he leaves a slimy track behind him , just such a track as some ...
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... diver , affords us some sport during the necessarily slow progress of our voyage . He requires to be hard hit , as the feathers are so E.EVANS TREACHEROUS ICE . Page 108 . SHOALS OF SEALS 108 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... diver , affords us some sport during the necessarily slow progress of our voyage . He requires to be hard hit , as the feathers are so E.EVANS TREACHEROUS ICE . Page 108 . SHOALS OF SEALS 108 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
Página 111
... sport is not without its dangers . All is excite- ment now , and we sit prepared for action . There ! the great head of a seal rises above the water close to the boat . We fire , and miss what might seem an easy chance ; but the motion ...
... sport is not without its dangers . All is excite- ment now , and we sit prepared for action . There ! the great head of a seal rises above the water close to the boat . We fire , and miss what might seem an easy chance ; but the motion ...
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... sport they have had . For old hands the result was poor one crew had bagged three , the other seven seals . Leaving the boat and landing on the ice at a point close by , we cautiously advance , creeping over the COLLECTING SEAL OIL ...
... sport they have had . For old hands the result was poor one crew had bagged three , the other seven seals . Leaving the boat and landing on the ice at a point close by , we cautiously advance , creeping over the COLLECTING SEAL OIL ...
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