The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... sport ; 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 scientific instruments ...
... sport ; 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 scientific instruments ...
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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 .
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... 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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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