The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... course of some deep- sea sounding experiments , that the water is of a high temperature at a depth of 400 fathoms , showing a difference of 9 ° at that depth when compared with the temperature at the surface ; a fact so extraordinary as ...
... course of some deep- sea sounding experiments , that the water is of a high temperature at a depth of 400 fathoms , showing a difference of 9 ° at that depth when compared with the temperature at the surface ; a fact so extraordinary as ...
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... course are evidently bound like ourselves due north . Now we turn to the men on board , and listen to the tales of daring they have to tell , so different in character to the usual experiences of men whose lot it is to sail in lower ...
... course are evidently bound like ourselves due north . Now we turn to the men on board , and listen to the tales of daring they have to tell , so different in character to the usual experiences of men whose lot it is to sail in lower ...
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... course got wrecked himself upon the very spot . The adverse wind threatens to oppose us continu- ally , but as we are equally determined to proceed , we make light of the " blustering railer , " and go on F board ; when , as if to ...
... course got wrecked himself upon the very spot . The adverse wind threatens to oppose us continu- ally , but as we are equally determined to proceed , we make light of the " blustering railer , " and go on F board ; when , as if to ...
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... course - but the barbed hooks , coming in sudden contact with a passing fish , probably attracted by the shining metal , sink deeply into the quivering side of the incautious codling , and he is hauled on board . We have many times seen ...
... course - but the barbed hooks , coming in sudden contact with a passing fish , probably attracted by the shining metal , sink deeply into the quivering side of the incautious codling , and he is hauled on board . We have many times seen ...
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... course , we soon lost our way in a fog , and but for the kindly assistance of a shepherd we found by chance in his lonely hut , we should have fared even worse perhaps . It was not until after five hours were spent in wandering in the ...
... course , we soon lost our way in a fog , and but for the kindly assistance of a shepherd we found by chance in his lonely hut , we should have fared even worse perhaps . It was not until after five hours were spent in wandering in the ...
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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