The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar and Equatorial Regions of the GlobeJohnson & McClain, 1871 - 761 sider |
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... leaves the forests to feed on the herbs and lichens of the tundra , and to seek along the shores fanned by the cooled sea - breeze some protection against the attacks of the stinging flies that rise in myriads from the swamps . Thus ...
... leaves the forests to feed on the herbs and lichens of the tundra , and to seek along the shores fanned by the cooled sea - breeze some protection against the attacks of the stinging flies that rise in myriads from the swamps . Thus ...
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... leaves , fruit - cones , and seeds have been preserved in the soil , and enable the botanist to determine the species of the plants to which they belong . They show that , besides firs and sequoias , oaks , plantains , elms , magnolias ...
... leaves , fruit - cones , and seeds have been preserved in the soil , and enable the botanist to determine the species of the plants to which they belong . They show that , besides firs and sequoias , oaks , plantains , elms , magnolias ...
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... leaves of trees . Judg- ing from the lichen's appearance in the hot months , when it is dry and brittle , one might easily wonder that so large a quadruped as the reindeer should make it his favorite food and fatten upon it ; but toward ...
... leaves of trees . Judg- ing from the lichen's appearance in the hot months , when it is dry and brittle , one might easily wonder that so large a quadruped as the reindeer should make it his favorite food and fatten upon it ; but toward ...
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... leaves no creature unmolested that can in any way satisfy his wants . The lemmings , of which there are many species , are small rodents , peculiar to the Arctic regions , both in the New and in the Old World , where they are found as ...
... leaves no creature unmolested that can in any way satisfy his wants . The lemmings , of which there are many species , are small rodents , peculiar to the Arctic regions , both in the New and in the Old World , where they are found as ...
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... leaves the port of Drontheim every week , and conveys the traveller in five or six days to the remote northern terminus of his journey . Innumerable isles of every size , from a few yards in diameter to as many miles , stud the line of ...
... leaves the port of Drontheim every week , and conveys the traveller in five or six days to the remote northern terminus of his journey . Innumerable isles of every size , from a few yards in diameter to as many miles , stud the line of ...
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Aleuts America animal appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Castrén chief climate coast cold color Cossacks covered desert distance dogs Esquimaux expedition feet fish forest frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland inches Indian inhabitants Innuits insects island Jakut Jenissei journey Lake land Lapland Lapp latitude leaves length less live Middendorff miles mountains mouth natives night northern Nova Zembla Obdorsk obliged ocean Onkilon Ostiaks plants Polar prey reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season ship shores Siberia side Sir James Ross skin sledge snow sometimes soon species Spitzbergen spot Straits stream summer Tchuktchi thick tion traveller trees tribes tropical tundra vegetation versts voyage walrus whole wild wind winter wonderful wood
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Side 167 - Gul in her bloom? Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Side 702 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, but feel not the knife. This singular ccnN 2 dition was not the result of any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense...
Side 725 - Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Side 678 - He stood there, and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar. The roar of the gorilla is the most singular and awful noise heard in these African woods.
Side 678 - Suddenly, as we were yet creeping along, in a silence which made a heavy breath seem loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the gorilla. "Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and presently before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone through the jungle on his all-fours ; but when he saw our party he erected himself and looked us boldly in the face.
Side 599 - And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Side 588 - ... purging comes on, and the animal, no longer able to graze, perishes in a state of extreme exhaustion. Those which are in good condition often perish soon after the bite is inflicted with staggering and blindness, as if the brain were affected by it.
Side 428 - Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi.
Side 425 - ... which is barely sufficient to cover their backs as low down as their loins. It is laced across the breast by strings, and according as the wind blows, it is shifted from side to side.
Side 694 - If the bird wished to descend, the wings were for a moment collapsed; and then when again expanded with an altered inclination, the momentum gained by the rapid descent seemed to urge the bird upwards, with the even and steady movement of a paper kite. In the case of any bird soaring, its motion must be sufficiently rapid, so that the action of the inclined surface of its body on the atmosphere may counterbalance its gravity.