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You are not going to educate us , work us up to the point of nautical perfection ,
awaken hopes and ambition , and then give us oakum to pick ; or run us over the
mast - head after top - gallant yards , to keep down the spirit which intellectual ...
You are not going to educate us , work us up to the point of nautical perfection ,
awaken hopes and ambition , and then give us oakum to pick ; or run us over the
mast - head after top - gallant yards , to keep down the spirit which intellectual ...
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... thy help , that so we may descry How thy fair mountains stand , and how thy
valleys lie . ” run We need hardly , then , dilate upon the run our schooner made
through this intricate passage . Fitful Head was rendered strangely weird -
looking ...
... thy help , that so we may descry How thy fair mountains stand , and how thy
valleys lie . ” run We need hardly , then , dilate upon the run our schooner made
through this intricate passage . Fitful Head was rendered strangely weird -
looking ...
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In an animal measured by my friend Dr . Murie , he found the entire length to be
sixty feet ; of this the head measured nearly twelve feet . This species , in
common with most of the family Balænopteridæ , does not go far north as a rule ,
says Mr ...
In an animal measured by my friend Dr . Murie , he found the entire length to be
sixty feet ; of this the head measured nearly twelve feet . This species , in
common with most of the family Balænopteridæ , does not go far north as a rule ,
says Mr ...
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Then there are the lances , and harpoons of various kinds ; one harpoon head
having the handle firmly fixed , to which the line is secured ; another has the
handle made to disengage itself when the harpoon , to which the line is attached
, is ...
Then there are the lances , and harpoons of various kinds ; one harpoon head
having the handle firmly fixed , to which the line is secured ; another has the
handle made to disengage itself when the harpoon , to which the line is attached
, is ...
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... circling round and passing over our heads really darkened the air above us ,
and , as they swept along like a thick cloud , wheeling suddenly in their flight ,
produced a curious effect , — the dull - looking OBJECTS OF THE SEA - SHORE
.
... circling round and passing over our heads really darkened the air above us ,
and , as they swept along like a thick cloud , wheeling suddenly in their flight ,
produced a curious effect , — the dull - looking OBJECTS OF THE SEA - SHORE
.
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animals appearance Arctic attempt bear boat called Captain cause CHAPTER clear close coast comes continued course crew danger deer difficulty direction distance drift driven east effect escape evidently explored fact fall fathoms feet floating forced formed gained give Greenland hands harpoon head hope icebergs increase Island journey kind land latitude leave less look mass means miles mountain nature northern noticed object observed once ourselves party passed Polar Pole present probably proved pursuit reached regions remains rest rise round sail sailors schooner seal season seems seen ship shore short shot side sight soon Sound Spitzbergen sport Strait stream success surface temperature turned vessel voyage warm watch weather whale whole wind winter
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Página 57 - Within a long recess there lies a bay : An island shades it from the rolling sea, And forms a port secure for ships to ride : Broke by the jutting land on either side, In double streams the briny waters glide...
Página 184 - Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snowstorm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pinetrees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes Flap like eagles in their eyries; — Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha!
Página 188 - On the coast of the opposite shore was a wall built of large stones, just above the high-water level, about three feet in height, and of considerable thickness. At the bottom, on both sides of it, alternate stones had been left out, so as to form a series of square. compartments for the Ducks to nest in.
Página 131 - Fabricius thought that it was to keep the holes open in the ice during the winter ; and the following occurrence seems to support this view. . In April, 1860, a Greenlander was travelling along the ice in the vicinity of Christianshaab, and discovered one of these opeu spaces in the ice, which, even in the most severe winters, remain open.
Página 297 - ... which is common in all snowy countries. We also thus enjoyed greater warmth during the hours of rest, and had a better chance of drying our clothes; besides which, no small advantage was derived from the snow being harder at night for travelling. The only disadvantage of this plan was that the fogs were somewhat more frequent and more thick by night than by day, though even in this respect there was less difference than might have been supposed, the temperature during the twentyfour hours undergoing...
Página 310 - ... 5", or not quite four miles to the northward of yesterday's observation, instead of the ten or eleven which we had travelled ! However, we determined to continue to the last our utmost exertions, though we could never once encourage the men by assuring them of our making good progress, and, setting out at seven in the evening, soon found that our hope of having permanently reached better ice was not to be realized ; for the floe on which we slept was so full of hummocks, that it occupied us just...
Página 298 - Had we succeeded in reaching the higher latitudes, where the change of the sun's altitude during the twenty-four hours is still less perceptible, it would have been essentially necessary to possess the certain means of knowing this ; since an error of twelve hours of time would have carried us, when we intended to return, on a meridian opposite to, or 180° from, the right one. To obviate the poisibility of this, we had some chronometers constructed by Messrs.
Página 215 - ... and hayle in the ayre: nor the unequall seas, which might amaze the hearer, and amate the beholder, where the Tritons and Neptune's selfe would quake with chilling feare...
Página 263 - Samoyede*. extent, which being passed, there was another extending far. These Samoyedes being questioned, if they were subject to the great Czar of Moscovy, replied, that they knew nothing of him. They spoke, however, of Petzora and Pitzano, places which belonged to the Russians, as known to them. Among a wandering unsettled people like the Samoyedes, it would naturally happen that some might be made to acknowledge themselves subject to the Russians, and others remain long in perfect ignorance of...
Página 297 - This travelling by night and sleeping by day so completely inverted the natural order of things, that it was difficult to persuade ourselves of the reality. Even the officers and myself, who were all furnished with pocket chronometers, could not always bear in mind at what part of the twen. ty-four hours we had arrived...
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| Título | The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to Spitzbergen |
| Autor | John Campion Well |
| Editor | H.S. King, 1876 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 27 Mar 2006 |
| Largo | 355 páginas |
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