The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to SpitzbergenH.S. King, 1873 - 355 páginas |
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... whole fleet is again in motion , all being evidently as anxious as we are to get away , and the scene is a stirring one as the sails are once more shaken out to the morning breeze . The fishing smacks lay a little closer to the wind ...
... whole fleet is again in motion , all being evidently as anxious as we are to get away , and the scene is a stirring one as the sails are once more shaken out to the morning breeze . The fishing smacks lay a little closer to the wind ...
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... whole village wore . a busy aspect , which may have been unusual ; cer- tainly the cause was not far to seek , for two hundred of the inhabitants , grown weary , perhaps , of the con- tinual privations they were forced to endure during ...
... whole village wore . a busy aspect , which may have been unusual ; cer- tainly the cause was not far to seek , for two hundred of the inhabitants , grown weary , perhaps , of the con- tinual privations they were forced to endure during ...
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... whole days in anxiously looking out for our arrival , that he hoped we would employ him as pilot ; and , after three hours ' persistently appealing for the berth , he obtained his object ; but , the moment he gained this advantage , he ...
... whole days in anxiously looking out for our arrival , that he hoped we would employ him as pilot ; and , after three hours ' persistently appealing for the berth , he obtained his object ; but , the moment he gained this advantage , he ...
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... whole weight of the body . The blubber of Balana mysticetus is about one half of all the weight . The finner is leaden- coloured in some lights ; but seen directly below the spectator , its body is black , with the chest and throat ...
... whole weight of the body . The blubber of Balana mysticetus is about one half of all the weight . The finner is leaden- coloured in some lights ; but seen directly below the spectator , its body is black , with the chest and throat ...
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... whole air is alive with white - winged armies , and the high cliffs are tenanted with another host at rest . It is a place of marvels ; —as if to mock the wondering crew , two rocks stand out from the land so exactly resembling swift ...
... whole air is alive with white - winged armies , and the high cliffs are tenanted with another host at rest . It is a place of marvels ; —as if to mock the wondering crew , two rocks stand out from the land so exactly resembling swift ...
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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