The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... suggesting corrections which make confusion worse confounded , by reporting their views upon the actual position of the places they have visited , on their OUR SCHOONER . 57 return home . The main object 56 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... suggesting corrections which make confusion worse confounded , by reporting their views upon the actual position of the places they have visited , on their OUR SCHOONER . 57 return home . The main object 56 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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... schooner : rigged with the usual foresail , topsail , and top - gallant sail , three jibs , fore - trysail and mainsail , she differed at first sight in no way from an ordinary pleasure yacht ; but a second glance at her heavy spars ...
... schooner : rigged with the usual foresail , topsail , and top - gallant sail , three jibs , fore - trysail and mainsail , she differed at first sight in no way from an ordinary pleasure yacht ; but a second glance at her heavy spars ...
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... schooner . They seemed never to grow weary in watching our operations , and we marvelled that so many hands could be spared in so busy a place , where there should be occupation for everybody ; but a kind of fascination held them to the ...
... schooner . They seemed never to grow weary in watching our operations , and we marvelled that so many hands could be spared in so busy a place , where there should be occupation for everybody ; but a kind of fascination held them to the ...
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... schooner and such attractions as Hull has to offer to a stranger so distracted our attention we hardly noticed the time slipping by . The 11th of May came at last , with a cold northerly wind and heavy rain , arguments which left no ...
... schooner and such attractions as Hull has to offer to a stranger so distracted our attention we hardly noticed the time slipping by . The 11th of May came at last , with a cold northerly wind and heavy rain , arguments which left no ...
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... our gallant friend , and our attention being drawn off from the receding tug - boat , we began to notice the fact that our schooner was already battling bravely with a high and heavy sea , the result of " 6 the recent gales . Dinner , sir !
... our gallant friend , and our attention being drawn off from the receding tug - boat , we began to notice the fact that our schooner was already battling bravely with a high and heavy sea , the result of " 6 the recent gales . Dinner , sir !
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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