The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... 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 marked upon the chart ...
... 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 marked upon the chart ...
Página 107
... look upon us , when , of course , we remain perfectly still until she again settles quietly down . In this way we advance to within about thirty yards , when she turns restlessly , as if contemplating a sudden move ; we see her keen ...
... look upon us , when , of course , we remain perfectly still until she again settles quietly down . In this way we advance to within about thirty yards , when she turns restlessly , as if contemplating a sudden move ; we see her keen ...
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... look about for the seal . There she lies , however , dead upon a tongue of ice , and just beneath the surface ; but for this platform beneath the waves , which is a rather common shape assumed by floating ice , it would have been a ...
... look about for the seal . There she lies , however , dead upon a tongue of ice , and just beneath the surface ; but for this platform beneath the waves , which is a rather common shape assumed by floating ice , it would have been a ...
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... looks upon us , and then dash off into the wildest games ever contem- plated by boys suddenly released from school , plung- ing head foremost into the waves ; the young and old together rearing themselves half out of the water in their ...
... looks upon us , and then dash off into the wildest games ever contem- plated by boys suddenly released from school , plung- ing head foremost into the waves ; the young and old together rearing themselves half out of the water in their ...
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... look- out for game , particular attention being bestowed on each long - point end , as the promontories of the streams of ice are called , for at these points the hunted seals are always likely to make a short stand on their ever onward ...
... look- out for game , particular attention being bestowed on each long - point end , as the promontories of the streams of ice are called , for at these points the hunted seals are always likely to make a short stand on their ever onward ...
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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