The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... gained a higher market price than could be obtained after the blubber had lost some of its most valuable qualities by being stowed away in its crude state . Our companion , with one sailor , landed here , whilst we and another ascended ...
... gained a higher market price than could be obtained after the blubber had lost some of its most valuable qualities by being stowed away in its crude state . Our companion , with one sailor , landed here , whilst we and another ascended ...
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... gained the water , when the quick word is given to fire , and a volley , well directed , knocks over all but one . This one seems to bear a charmed life , for he rallies through the crowd of prostrate companions , in a hail of bullets ...
... gained the water , when the quick word is given to fire , and a volley , well directed , knocks over all but one . This one seems to bear a charmed life , for he rallies through the crowd of prostrate companions , in a hail of bullets ...
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... gaining on the distant object , the wondrous beauty of the scene before us and the sport in hand dividing our admiration and combining to fill us with such a sense of enjoyment as we have rarely felt . The little crowd around us are ...
... gaining on the distant object , the wondrous beauty of the scene before us and the sport in hand dividing our admiration and combining to fill us with such a sense of enjoyment as we have rarely felt . The little crowd around us are ...
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... gained on a previous occasion we watch anxiously for the coming of some sleepy narwhal into our own scrap of open water . The hours seem to drag along wearily as we wait , and it is in the midst of our patient wait- ing the man from the ...
... gained on a previous occasion we watch anxiously for the coming of some sleepy narwhal into our own scrap of open water . The hours seem to drag along wearily as we wait , and it is in the midst of our patient wait- ing the man from the ...
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... gained for it , as we have said , the name of Brownie from the Scotch and Shetland whalers . Sometimes it is called the " Farmer , " from its very agricultural appearance as it stalks leisurely over the furrowed fields of ice . It roars ...
... gained for it , as we have said , the name of Brownie from the Scotch and Shetland whalers . Sometimes it is called the " Farmer , " from its very agricultural appearance as it stalks leisurely over the furrowed fields of ice . It roars ...
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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