The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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Página 95
... clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host like this , was much greater than could ...
... clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host like this , was much greater than could ...
Página 95
... clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host like this , was much greater than could ...
... clear air , white as a snowdrift , and then cohort after cohort would float past again in another cloud - like mass . The noise , too , of so many wings , and the wild , scared cries from a host like this , was much greater than could ...
Página 106
... clear water , only to commence another attack . By this time we are grown well acquainted with the details of the operation , and we drive head- long into another pack . The fog now grows so dense , we are quite unable to advance ...
... clear water , only to commence another attack . By this time we are grown well acquainted with the details of the operation , and we drive head- long into another pack . The fog now grows so dense , we are quite unable to advance ...
Página 117
... clear the many islets of ice which intercept our course , a clear space in the surrounding gloom , owing to the fog lifting , gives us a momentary view of the ship looming towards us in the distance , and thanks to this oppor- tunity we ...
... clear the many islets of ice which intercept our course , a clear space in the surrounding gloom , owing to the fog lifting , gives us a momentary view of the ship looming towards us in the distance , and thanks to this oppor- tunity we ...
Página 119
... clear water in the far distance , and the man on deck , guided by his directions , struggles through the streams run- ning south , the good little vessel behaving admirably as we make our way towards the east . Our object is to round ...
... clear water in the far distance , and the man on deck , guided by his directions , struggles through the streams run- ning south , the good little vessel behaving admirably as we make our way towards the east . Our object is to round ...
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amongst animals Arctic circle Arctic seas Barentsz bear Beerenberg boat Cape Captain coast cold crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora force gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Kennedy Channel Lancaster Sound land latitude look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal North Somerset northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack Parry party Polar Pole present pursuit reached regions reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport steamer Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel voyage Waigatz walrus warm water weather whale wind winter
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