The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... close inspection , " No admittance here except on business . " There are four whale - lines on board , each equal to 960 yards ; these fill the spaces between the thwarts ; forward in the broad bow , there is a bollard.
... close inspection , " No admittance here except on business . " There are four whale - lines on board , each equal to 960 yards ; these fill the spaces between the thwarts ; forward in the broad bow , there is a bollard.
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... close to the boat . We fire , and miss what might seem an easy chance ; but the motion of the boat , always uncertain , renders the shooting of one not expert by practice , anything but reliable . Now the boat is surrounded with the ...
... close to the boat . We fire , and miss what might seem an easy chance ; but the motion of the boat , always uncertain , renders the shooting of one not expert by practice , anything but reliable . Now the boat is surrounded with the ...
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... close proximity to the other boats , and hasten to inquire what sort of 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 ...
... close proximity to the other boats , and hasten to inquire what sort of 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 ...
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... close by , and as he in mad haste tries to reach the water , he receives three bullets in his tough hide , all to no effect . The seal , unless struck in some vital place - the head , or behind the flipper at a point directly over the ...
... close by , and as he in mad haste tries to reach the water , he receives three bullets in his tough hide , all to no effect . The seal , unless struck in some vital place - the head , or behind the flipper at a point directly over the ...
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... close in from all sides , and so surround the seals at some common centre . Our plan , clever as it seemed , did not succeed ; the seals were more wary then ever , and demanded all our skill both for tracking them , and , when found ...
... close in from all sides , and so surround the seals at some common centre . Our plan , clever as it seemed , did not succeed ; the seals were more wary then ever , and demanded all our skill both for tracking them , and , when found ...
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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