The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... travelled over the ice to their more for- tunate companions who were safe on the outside of the floe , and so escaped with their lives , only too glad to leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the ...
... travelled over the ice to their more for- tunate companions who were safe on the outside of the floe , and so escaped with their lives , only too glad to leave their own vessels to the mercy of the ice , and the savage onslaughts of the ...
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... travellers " bay ice ; for three miles our way lay across this flat , which lies at the base of the mountains , and is fringed by the sea - shore . We found our friends at length , and enjoyed with them the prospect they were ...
... travellers " bay ice ; for three miles our way lay across this flat , which lies at the base of the mountains , and is fringed by the sea - shore . We found our friends at length , and enjoyed with them the prospect they were ...
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... travelling in great herds . We saw them going in flocks of many thousands , travelling north in their migrations tusk to tusk , and tail to tail , like a regiment of cavalry , so regularly do they seem to rise and sink into the water in ...
... travelling in great herds . We saw them going in flocks of many thousands , travelling north in their migrations tusk to tusk , and tail to tail , like a regiment of cavalry , so regularly do they seem to rise and sink into the water in ...
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... travelling along the ice in the vicinity of Christianshaab , and discovered one of these open spaces in the ice , which , even in the most severe winters , remain open . In this hole hundreds of nar- whals and white whales were ...
... travelling along the ice in the vicinity of Christianshaab , and discovered one of these open spaces in the ice , which , even in the most severe winters , remain open . In this hole hundreds of nar- whals and white whales were ...
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... remembered that Parry gained the point 82 ° 45 ' , and he assuredly might have gone farther north had he but started at the right season for sledge . THE GATE - WAY TO THE POLYNIA . 197 travelling 196 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
... remembered that Parry gained the point 82 ° 45 ' , and he assuredly might have gone farther north had he but started at the right season for sledge . THE GATE - WAY TO THE POLYNIA . 197 travelling 196 A VOYAGE TO SPITZBERGEN .
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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