The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... interest . " It consists of some 300 kinds of flowering plants ( besides a very large number of mosses , algæ , lichens , & c . ) , and presented the fol- lowing peculiarities :-( 1 . ) The flowering plants were , almost without ...
... interest . " It consists of some 300 kinds of flowering plants ( besides a very large number of mosses , algæ , lichens , & c . ) , and presented the fol- lowing peculiarities :-( 1 . ) The flowering plants were , almost without ...
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... interest in our welfare , and from them we received in turn hearty assurance of good wishes , with predictions that the voyage we were about to enter upon could not fail to be full of pleasurable enjoyment of every kind . We were at ...
... interest in our welfare , and from them we received in turn hearty assurance of good wishes , with predictions that the voyage we were about to enter upon could not fail to be full of pleasurable enjoyment of every kind . We were at ...
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... interest in the subject ) would have been to us of the greatest possible value ; for it is needless to say , that there is no book existing , except , perhaps , the valuable contributions of Scoresby , from whose pages we could hope to ...
... interest in the subject ) would have been to us of the greatest possible value ; for it is needless to say , that there is no book existing , except , perhaps , the valuable contributions of Scoresby , from whose pages we could hope to ...
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... interest in a journey they do not hesitate to speculate on freely , all day long stand loitering about the schooner . They seemed never to grow weary in watching our operations , and we marvelled that so many hands could be spared in so ...
... interest in a journey they do not hesitate to speculate on freely , all day long stand loitering about the schooner . They seemed never to grow weary in watching our operations , and we marvelled that so many hands could be spared in so ...
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... interest since the earliest exploits in these seas were recorded . Eddy and Byers ( our harpooners ) told us of one encounter JHL with a whale in a previous voyage , when the boat , ere Eddy could strike with his harpoon , was capsized ...
... interest since the earliest exploits in these seas were recorded . Eddy and Byers ( our harpooners ) told us of one encounter JHL with a whale in a previous voyage , when the boat , ere Eddy could strike with his harpoon , was capsized ...
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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