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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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