The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... sport with the seal , that we are all impatience to be gone in their pursnit , but the har- pooneers , grown cautious by long experience , are strangely averse to any such proceedings in the present condition of the atmosphere . They ...
... sport with the seal , that we are all impatience to be gone in their pursnit , but the har- pooneers , grown cautious by long experience , are strangely averse to any such proceedings in the present condition of the atmosphere . They ...
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... sport . Hardly had we time to load , when they appeared again close by the boat ; disturbed in their nap by our sudden onslaught , evidently they had dived to avoid the threatened danger , and were now on the surface to reconnoitre ...
... sport . Hardly had we time to load , when they appeared again close by the boat ; disturbed in their nap by our sudden onslaught , evidently they had dived to avoid the threatened danger , and were now on the surface to reconnoitre ...
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... sport amongst a little colony as we go sailing steadily along . We saw in the distance one little party far in on the ice , a habit the bladder - nose seal indulges in , perhaps relying on his greater size and the security he feels in ...
... sport amongst a little colony as we go sailing steadily along . We saw in the distance one little party far in on the ice , a habit the bladder - nose seal indulges in , perhaps relying on his greater size and the security he feels in ...
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... sport whenever they find any indication of the pre- sence of seal hunters , who , though lacking some of the advantages of the steamer , have far greater oppor- tunities of sport , being less noisy and demonstrative than they ...
... sport whenever they find any indication of the pre- sence of seal hunters , who , though lacking some of the advantages of the steamer , have far greater oppor- tunities of sport , being less noisy and demonstrative than they ...
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... sport had been very bad . The Flora had not , owing to her being in the hands of German owners , gone out the previous season , for fear of the French cruisers . We had but small returns of sport up to the 20th , when we entered upon a ...
... sport had been very bad . The Flora had not , owing to her being in the hands of German owners , gone out the previous season , for fear of the French cruisers . We had but small returns of sport up to the 20th , when we entered upon a ...
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amongst animals Arctic seas Barentsz bear boat Cape Captain coast cold crew curious danger deer depth difficulty direction distance drift east edge eider ducks escape expedition explored fathoms feet fiord floating floe flora forced gale Greenland Gulf Stream harpoon herd hole hope Humboldt Glacier hummock icebergs Iceland INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER journey June Kennedy Channel killed Lancaster Sound land latitude look mass miles Miocene Moffen Island mountain narwhal northern Norwegian Nova Zembla object observed once open sea open water ourselves pack party Polar Pole present pursuit reach region reindeer rocks round sail sailors Samoyedes SCALLOWAY CASTLE schooner seal season seems seen ship shore shot side sight sledges Smith Sound snow soon southward Spitzbergen sport Strait stream surface temperature thick tion vessel Waigatz walrus warm water watch weather Willem Barentsz wind winter