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Russian Memorials — Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit CONTENTS
CHAPTER X . PAGE Foreign Sailors — Old Stagers. of Game - White Whale -
Netting Large Game . . . 223 CHAPTER IX . A Short Cut - A Dangerous Descent -
A ...
Russian Memorials — Long Years of Waiting - Landing in Pursuit CONTENTS
CHAPTER X . PAGE Foreign Sailors — Old Stagers. of Game - White Whale -
Netting Large Game . . . 223 CHAPTER IX . A Short Cut - A Dangerous Descent -
A ...
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CONTENTS CHAPTER X . PAGE Foreign Sailors — Old Stagers — The Snow
Goose - A Remote Guano Bed — Geological Rambles . . . . . . . 255 CHAPTER XI
. Barentsz ' s Voyage — Nova Zenbla — Russians and HollandersLinschoten ...
CONTENTS CHAPTER X . PAGE Foreign Sailors — Old Stagers — The Snow
Goose - A Remote Guano Bed — Geological Rambles . . . . . . . 255 CHAPTER XI
. Barentsz ' s Voyage — Nova Zenbla — Russians and HollandersLinschoten ...
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... our sailors , more especially Arctic sailors , that hundreds of them volunteer to
go when any project of this kind is afloat . From this point of view , the exploration
of the higher latitudes is a matter for government , and not for private enterprise .
... our sailors , more especially Arctic sailors , that hundreds of them volunteer to
go when any project of this kind is afloat . From this point of view , the exploration
of the higher latitudes is a matter for government , and not for private enterprise .
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In 1474 Columbus visited Iceland , and even sailed one hundred leagues
beyond it ; and it is not improbable he may have heard from the Icelanders
traditions of their former occupation of Greenland and portions of the American
continent .
In 1474 Columbus visited Iceland , and even sailed one hundred leagues
beyond it ; and it is not improbable he may have heard from the Icelanders
traditions of their former occupation of Greenland and portions of the American
continent .
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... for they could have laid in a sufficient stock of turf and dwarf shrubs for fuel ;
and could have secured plenty of food , since some of the papers that have been
recovered state that while the sailors were searching in all directions for natives
to ...
... for they could have laid in a sufficient stock of turf and dwarf shrubs for fuel ;
and could have secured plenty of food , since some of the papers that have been
recovered state that while the sailors were searching in all directions for natives
to ...
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| Título | The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to Spitzbergen |
| Autor | John Campion Wells |
| Editor | H.S. King, 1873 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 6 Oct. 2008 |
| Largo | 355 páginas |
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