The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... masses as they tilt against each other and are rent asunder . All this time we are sailing towards the densest part through a fringe of broken ice in a heaving sea . The older hands on board now offer their opinion as to.
... masses as they tilt against each other and are rent asunder . All this time we are sailing towards the densest part through a fringe of broken ice in a heaving sea . The older hands on board now offer their opinion as to.
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... mass into powder . Into this commotion , the schooner is forced with all speed , charging the most likely place to make an entrance for us , as the surge rises and falls with awful fury . Thump she drives against the barrier , the bells ...
... mass into powder . Into this commotion , the schooner is forced with all speed , charging the most likely place to make an entrance for us , as the surge rises and falls with awful fury . Thump she drives against the barrier , the bells ...
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... mass above the sea . A block of ice of twelve feet elevation presents its front to the approaching ship . We must ever bear in mind that this twelve feet represents a thickness of one hundred and eight feet below the surface . Great and ...
... mass above the sea . A block of ice of twelve feet elevation presents its front to the approaching ship . We must ever bear in mind that this twelve feet represents a thickness of one hundred and eight feet below the surface . Great and ...
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... advice of the Hull Harbour- master , jump on to the treacherous ice and hasten to the opposite side ; there the ledge overhangs some- what ; the mass yields beneath our weight , and we are precipitated head - foremost into the water .
... advice of the Hull Harbour- master , jump on to the treacherous ice and hasten to the opposite side ; there the ledge overhangs some- what ; the mass yields beneath our weight , and we are precipitated head - foremost into the water .
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... mass ( worth from £ 35 to £ 40 per ton ) is about to be dragged towards the boat , when , to our confusion , we find ourselves drifting slowly but surely away . Our boat rests moored to the piece we had fastened it to at a considerable ...
... mass ( worth from £ 35 to £ 40 per ton ) is about to be dragged towards the boat , when , to our confusion , we find ourselves drifting slowly but surely away . Our boat rests moored to the piece we had fastened it to at a considerable ...
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