The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... hand in the second boat ; but for this the adventure might have had a still more serious ending , their ship , as often happens , being away a considerable distance at the time . The wind again veered round to the north , and as there ...
... hand in the second boat ; but for this the adventure might have had a still more serious ending , their ship , as often happens , being away a considerable distance at the time . The wind again veered round to the north , and as there ...
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... hand which grasps the line into the air , and then lets the weight subside again ; this action is repeated for some time , when he is at length rewarded by the capture of a fine fish - not fairly hooked of course - but the barbed hooks ...
... hand which grasps the line into the air , and then lets the weight subside again ; this action is repeated for some time , when he is at length rewarded by the capture of a fine fish - not fairly hooked of course - but the barbed hooks ...
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... hands declare that it portends an easterly wind if seen further north ; but here , so far south , it surely indicates that the pack ice is well south . The 25th of May finds us to the southward of the Shetlands , and we hope to make the ...
... hands declare that it portends an easterly wind if seen further north ; but here , so far south , it surely indicates that the pack ice is well south . The 25th of May finds us to the southward of the Shetlands , and we hope to make the ...
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... hand of nature mark'd , Quoted and sign'd , to do a deed of shame , " laid a tax upon each parish in the county , obliging the Shetlanders to find as many men as were required for the building , as well as furnish provisions for the ...
... hand of nature mark'd , Quoted and sign'd , to do a deed of shame , " laid a tax upon each parish in the county , obliging the Shetlanders to find as many men as were required for the building , as well as furnish provisions for the ...
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... hands , so that our party now numbered seventeen people , and , judg- ing from appearances , we were likely enough to have a pleasant time of it in the north , where there would be plenty of sport ; if the formidable if the formidable ...
... hands , so that our party now numbered seventeen people , and , judg- ing from appearances , we were likely enough to have a pleasant time of it in the north , where there would be plenty of sport ; if the formidable if the formidable ...
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