The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... sailors were searching in all direc- tions for natives to help them , they saw many bears , deer , foxes , and other animals , while those in the ship saw seals and whales in abundance . Chancelor pro- ceeded to St. Nichola in the White ...
... sailors were searching in all direc- tions for natives to help them , they saw many bears , deer , foxes , and other animals , while those in the ship saw seals and whales in abundance . Chancelor pro- ceeded to St. Nichola in the White ...
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... sailors who are to accompany us , and of others , nautically inclined , who seem to take a lively interest in a journey they do not hesitate to speculate on freely , all day long stand loitering about the schooner . They seemed never to ...
... sailors who are to accompany us , and of others , nautically inclined , who seem to take a lively interest in a journey they do not hesitate to speculate on freely , all day long stand loitering about the schooner . They seemed never to ...
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... sailor produces a crafty - looking combination of hooks bound together with some shining white metal ; this he rigs up after a fashion adopted by the Norwegian fishermen , and he lets it down a considerable depth into the sea - with a ...
... sailor produces a crafty - looking combination of hooks bound together with some shining white metal ; this he rigs up after a fashion adopted by the Norwegian fishermen , and he lets it down a considerable depth into the sea - with a ...
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... sailors only escaped ; the ship went down in deep water and all hands were lost . The casks of costly wine floated out of the wreck , and for twenty days the people along - shore got drunk and grew sober to get drunk again as long as ...
... sailors only escaped ; the ship went down in deep water and all hands were lost . The casks of costly wine floated out of the wreck , and for twenty days the people along - shore got drunk and grew sober to get drunk again as long as ...
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... sailors who are armed with the sharp flencing tools . Often and often the men have to desist from their labour to drive away these frightful assailants , and so unwilling are they to forego the meal once tasted , that sometimes a shark ...
... sailors who are armed with the sharp flencing tools . Often and often the men have to desist from their labour to drive away these frightful assailants , and so unwilling are they to forego the meal once tasted , that sometimes a shark ...
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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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