The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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Página 60
... 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.
Página 97
... 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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amongst animals Arctic circle Arctic seas Barentsz bear Beerenberg boat Cape Captain coast cold crew Crown 8vo curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora force gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey Kennedy Channel Lancaster Sound land latitude look masses miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal North Somerset northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack Parry party Polar Pole present pursuit reached regions reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport steamer Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel voyage Waigatz walrus warm water weather whale wind winter
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