The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... her false gripe , to give her plenty of fore - reach , convinced us that the work cut out for her was no child's play . Looking closer , we found her frame was coated with double planking , to offer the strongest resistance that.
... her false gripe , to give her plenty of fore - reach , convinced us that the work cut out for her was no child's play . Looking closer , we found her frame was coated with double planking , to offer the strongest resistance that.
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... give many another hearty cheer , which told us plainly that their anxious and best wishes are sin- cerely with us . We have Captain Wells on board , and he seems , even at the last moment , more than half resolved to come with us , but ...
... give many another hearty cheer , which told us plainly that their anxious and best wishes are sin- cerely with us . We have Captain Wells on board , and he seems , even at the last moment , more than half resolved to come with us , but ...
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... gives place to new phases of nature , wearing for him a totally different aspect to distant regions he may be familiar with , no doubt , from the perusal of books whose pages depict vividly the scenes they describe ; but , after all ...
... gives place to new phases of nature , wearing for him a totally different aspect to distant regions he may be familiar with , no doubt , from the perusal of books whose pages depict vividly the scenes they describe ; but , after all ...
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... about by a set of middies who knows nothing they give orders about - no , sir , none of my family enter the Navy ; we saw enough of them up contract . RIGHT WHALES . 81 the Straits to see what they 80 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... about by a set of middies who knows nothing they give orders about - no , sir , none of my family enter the Navy ; we saw enough of them up contract . RIGHT WHALES . 81 the Straits to see what they 80 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... give us the opportunity of testing its gastronomic qualifications . At 6 P.M. the fog lifted , and we had a fine view of Mount Beerenberg , bearing S.W. & S. , at a distance of about eighty miles ; the wind was from south - west , and ...
... give us the opportunity of testing its gastronomic qualifications . At 6 P.M. the fog lifted , and we had a fine view of Mount Beerenberg , bearing S.W. & S. , at a distance of about eighty miles ; the wind was from south - west , and ...
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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