The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... successful voyages always secures a crew , while the awful experiences of those who have escaped from former hazardous expeditions at this season of the year , seem to have little or no effect upon the men themselves or their ready ...
... successful voyages always secures a crew , while the awful experiences of those who have escaped from former hazardous expeditions at this season of the year , seem to have little or no effect upon the men themselves or their ready ...
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... success over our unknown opponents . The wind blows fresh , and the sea runs high , but the schooner tops the waves in gallant style , and the race grows exciting as we quickly outrun each sail in turn ; once fairly on our way , we ...
... success over our unknown opponents . The wind blows fresh , and the sea runs high , but the schooner tops the waves in gallant style , and the race grows exciting as we quickly outrun each sail in turn ; once fairly on our way , we ...
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... success is trifling ; presently an old 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 ...
... success is trifling ; presently an old 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 ...
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... well appointed armoury , could be any guarantee for our success . We have much serious work to occupy us as well ; the many costly scientific instruments plainly indicate this fact , as they are being stowed away with the.
... well appointed armoury , could be any guarantee for our success . We have much serious work to occupy us as well ; the many costly scientific instruments plainly indicate this fact , as they are being stowed away with the.
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... successful pursuit and its reappearance again upon the surface , the body becomes much distended by the gases gene ... success has crowned their efforts , and the inflated carcass re- appears upon the surface of the sea once more , the ...
... successful pursuit and its reappearance again upon the surface , the body becomes much distended by the gases gene ... success has crowned their efforts , and the inflated carcass re- appears upon the surface of the sea once more , the ...
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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