The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the storms of the Arctic seas . On Monday , the 13th of May , the warps are ready , a steam - tug has taken a final hold of the Samson to tow her out . The ...
... leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the storms of the Arctic seas . On Monday , the 13th of May , the warps are ready , a steam - tug has taken a final hold of the Samson to tow her out . The ...
Página 62
... leave - taking culminates in a tumbling sea . There are emotions at such a time which the untravelled Englishman has never experienced . Such a one knows nothing of the strange sensation of sailing away from home and friends , league ...
... leave - taking culminates in a tumbling sea . There are emotions at such a time which the untravelled Englishman has never experienced . Such a one knows nothing of the strange sensation of sailing away from home and friends , league ...
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... leave , but the new accessions to our crew had little time to get their things together , and overstayed their time . We had secured the ser- vices of a carpenter and four additional hands , so that our party now numbered seventeen ...
... leave , but the new accessions to our crew had little time to get their things together , and overstayed their time . We had secured the ser- vices of a carpenter and four additional hands , so that our party now numbered seventeen ...
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... leaves a slimy track behind him , just such a track as some great black slug leaves when passing over the garden path in the early morning ; we could also G observe the action of the enormous tail , which differs.
... leaves a slimy track behind him , just such a track as some great black slug leaves when passing over the garden path in the early morning ; we could also G observe the action of the enormous tail , which differs.
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... leaving two of the men to look after our boat in our absence . The soil formed by the washing away of the moun- tains was heaped up in the neighbourhood of the sea into rich plains , and its richness surprised us . There are two craters ...
... leaving two of the men to look after our boat in our absence . The soil formed by the washing away of the moun- tains was heaped up in the neighbourhood of the sea into rich plains , and its richness surprised us . There are two craters ...
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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