The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... short stay at Lerwick , we learned many other curious particulars respecting the ancient habits and customs of this remote branch of the Celtic family , and being limited for time , instead of visiting , as we gladly would have done ...
... short stay at Lerwick , we learned many other curious particulars respecting the ancient habits and customs of this remote branch of the Celtic family , and being limited for time , instead of visiting , as we gladly would have done ...
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... short post fixed firmly to the stem . This is in a line with the notch in the bows , round which the harpooner takes a turn of the line when fast in the whale ; another , iron - bound , to carry the swivel - gun of one and a - half inch ...
... short post fixed firmly to the stem . This is in a line with the notch in the bows , round which the harpooner takes a turn of the line when fast in the whale ; another , iron - bound , to carry the swivel - gun of one and a - half inch ...
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... short also in her coal supply , and when her last bushel was expended and they were forced to rely on their sails alone , they had the misfortune of seeing the ice open and their consort steam away without even offering a helping hand ...
... short also in her coal supply , and when her last bushel was expended and they were forced to rely on their sails alone , they had the misfortune of seeing the ice open and their consort steam away without even offering a helping hand ...
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... short hour's help , had informed every anxious inquirer that the Diana was secure from danger , and needed no assistance from without . Most of the crew survived their difficulties , but the captain and nine of the men were unable to ...
... short hour's help , had informed every anxious inquirer that the Diana was secure from danger , and needed no assistance from without . Most of the crew survived their difficulties , but the captain and nine of the men were unable to ...
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... short cut to join the others on the sandy beach below . Getting down again we struck across a kind of lagoon , rough with frozen snow , called by arctic travellers " bay ice ; " for three miles our way lay across this flat , which lies ...
... short cut to join the others on the sandy beach below . Getting down again we struck across a kind of lagoon , rough with frozen snow , called by arctic travellers " bay ice ; " for three miles our way lay across this flat , which lies ...
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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