The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... evidently reluctant to take to the water when disturbed . Could it have been that some enemy , of whose presence we were uncon- scious , was lurking there to attack them if they ven- tured in ? This we had no means of explaining , as ...
... evidently reluctant to take to the water when disturbed . Could it have been that some enemy , of whose presence we were uncon- scious , was lurking there to attack them if they ven- tured in ? This we had no means of explaining , as ...
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... evidently is furtively biting at a dead one , and it is equally evident that the poor beast is endeavouring to rouse its parent to flee for her life , little heeding the weapons of the crew , in its almost human solicitude for its ...
... evidently is furtively biting at a dead one , and it is equally evident that the poor beast is endeavouring to rouse its parent to flee for her life , little heeding the weapons of the crew , in its almost human solicitude for its ...
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... evidently mis- taking him for one of its own species , as he at times imitated to very life every phocine movement , he ap- proached within a very short distance . Then suddenly starting up he sent his lance whirling into the creature's ...
... evidently mis- taking him for one of its own species , as he at times imitated to very life every phocine movement , he ap- proached within a very short distance . Then suddenly starting up he sent his lance whirling into the creature's ...
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... evidently full of the thoughts such a scene will raise in the brain even of the dullest amongst us , we are too preoccupied to care to express ourselves , and almost in silence we fasten our prize by the tail with a rope rove through ...
... evidently full of the thoughts such a scene will raise in the brain even of the dullest amongst us , we are too preoccupied to care to express ourselves , and almost in silence we fasten our prize by the tail with a rope rove through ...
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... evidently had been ac- cepted as traditions which might easily be traced to a remote date if one had time for so curious a line of study , it would be well worth examining this strange conformation of the palate of the whale , to see ...
... evidently had been ac- cepted as traditions which might easily be traced to a remote date if one had time for so curious a line of study , it would be well worth examining this strange conformation of the palate of the whale , to see ...
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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