The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... caused by all this commotion gave additional anxiety to such of us as were unused to it , and it was not until we had again escaped from a spot where the least shift of wind would , in spite of all our efforts , have driven us upon a ...
... caused by all this commotion gave additional anxiety to such of us as were unused to it , and it was not until we had again escaped from a spot where the least shift of wind would , in spite of all our efforts , have driven us upon a ...
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... the task of restoring the poor fellows to health and to their friends ; and we now had two of these Diana men on board with us , who , SEA BIRDS . 91 but for certain indelible marks caused 90 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... the task of restoring the poor fellows to health and to their friends ; and we now had two of these Diana men on board with us , who , SEA BIRDS . 91 but for certain indelible marks caused 90 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... caused by the expo- sure and incessant toil at the pumps , seemed as capable of enduring the vicissitudes of many a future year's Arctic voyaging as the ablest seaman on board our schooner . For two days we have the dense fog thick ...
... caused by the expo- sure and incessant toil at the pumps , seemed as capable of enduring the vicissitudes of many a future year's Arctic voyaging as the ablest seaman on board our schooner . For two days we have the dense fog thick ...
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... caused them to glitter and sparkle again . We had never contemplated anything so fairy - like , and at the same time so weird- looking . We had a long ten - hour walk , and were rewarded by the discovery of a hitherto unnoticed crater ...
... caused them to glitter and sparkle again . We had never contemplated anything so fairy - like , and at the same time so weird- looking . We had a long ten - hour walk , and were rewarded by the discovery of a hitherto unnoticed crater ...
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... for their pro- tection were nearly emptied of their contents carly in the day , as the wild duck knew to their cost . And it is to this cause they attributed their failure in the attempt to capture the first Arctic white fox met with H 2.
... for their pro- tection were nearly emptied of their contents carly in the day , as the wild duck knew to their cost . And it is to this cause they attributed their failure in the attempt to capture the first Arctic white fox met with H 2.
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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