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 66 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 66 time during our ...
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amongst animals Arctic seas Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast cold crew curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east edge eider ducks escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora forced gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hole hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey June Kennedy Channel killed Lancaster Sound land latitude look mass miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack party Polar Pole present pursuit reach region reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel Waigatz walrus warm water watch weather Willem Barentsz wind winter