The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... forced to return on board without a capture . The hole we are in evidently closes around us , and we make desperate efforts to escape from being caught in the ice . Already we have struck several pieces and received some severe thumps ...
... forced to return on board without a capture . The hole we are in evidently closes around us , and we make desperate efforts to escape from being caught in the ice . Already we have struck several pieces and received some severe thumps ...
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... forced by widening the space by concussion to leave narrow channels between , and the lesser blocks being lighter , drift rapidly along , while the larger blocks having a greater draught move more slowly . Presently the whole mass is ...
... forced by widening the space by concussion to leave narrow channels between , and the lesser blocks being lighter , drift rapidly along , while the larger blocks having a greater draught move more slowly . Presently the whole mass is ...
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... forced to give up the pursuit , fairly beaten by the fatigue . As we return to the schooner the older hands inform us that they never knew such pursuit result in any gain ; narwhal at such times cannot be taken . the On the 28th we ...
... forced to give up the pursuit , fairly beaten by the fatigue . As we return to the schooner the older hands inform us that they never knew such pursuit result in any gain ; narwhal at such times cannot be taken . the On the 28th we ...
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... forced to endure the consequences of their heedless devotion to pleasure . Now English flies were not born to flutter among icebergs , and their delicate frames yielded only to the change of climate . We , on first leaving home , had no ...
... forced to endure the consequences of their heedless devotion to pleasure . Now English flies were not born to flutter among icebergs , and their delicate frames yielded only to the change of climate . We , on first leaving home , had no ...
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... forced to wait patiently at one place for a considerable time , and remembering the experience we had gained on a previous occasion we watch anxiously for the coming of some sleepy narwhal into our own scrap of open water . The hours ...
... forced to wait patiently at one place for a considerable time , and remembering the experience we had gained on a previous occasion we watch anxiously for the coming of some sleepy narwhal into our own scrap of open water . The hours ...
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amongst animals Arctic seas Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast cold crew curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east edge eider ducks escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora forced gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hole hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey June Kennedy Channel killed Lancaster Sound land latitude look mass miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack party Polar Pole present pursuit reach region reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel Waigatz walrus warm water watch weather Willem Barentsz wind winter