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The Polar World: A popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and ... G. Hartwig Begrænset visning - 2021 |
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animals Antarctic appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Castrén chief climate coast cold colour Cossacks covered distance dogs Esquimaux expedition feet fish forests frequently glaciers Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay hunters hunting Iceland Icelandic moss inhabitants island Jakut Jakutsk journey Kamtschatka Kolyma Kolymsk lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains night northern Norway Norwegian Novaya Zemlya Obdorsk obliged ocean Ostjaks Polar Sea Pole reached regions reindeer river rocks roubles Russian sailed Samojedes scarcely seals seldom ship shore Siberia Sir James Ross skins sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot storm Straits stream summer surface Tchuktchi temperature thick Tobolsk traveller trees tribes tundra Tunguse Tungusi vast vegetation versts vessel voyage walrus whale whole wild wind winter wonder Wrangell Yermak
Populære passager
Side 130 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Side 389 - Franklin, but no words can convey an idea of the filth and wretchedness that met our eyes on looking around. Our own misery had stolen upon us by degrees, and we were accustomed to the contemplation of each other's emaciated figures ; but the ghastly countenances, dilated eye-balls, and sepulchral voices of Captain Franklin and those with him were more than we could at first bear.
Side 410 - ... under the boat, which had been turned over to form a shelter, and several lay scattered about in different directions. Of those found on the island, one was supposed to have been an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over his shoulders and his doublebarrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of many of the corpses...
Side 164 - 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 462 - ... of latitude, or 450 miles, of a harbour, where three species of Oliva, a Voluta, and a Terebra, are the commonest shells, within less than 9° from where palms grow, within 4^° of a region where the jaguar and puma range over the plains, less than 2^° from arborescent grasses, and (looking to the westward in the same hemisphere) less than 2° from orchideous parasites, and within a single degree of treeferns...
Side 323 - ... with a single thong leading over the back, and attached to the sledge as a trace. Though they appear at first sight to be huddled together without regard to regularity, there is, in fact, considerable attention paid to their arrangement, particularly in the selection of a Dog of peculiar spirit and sagacity, who is allowed, by a longer trace, to precede the rest as leader, and to whom, in turning to the right or left, the driver usually addresses himself. This choice is made without regard to...
Side 399 - ... distant grave, to life and friends and civilization. Long accustomed, however, to a cold bed on the hard snow or the bare rock, few could sleep amid the comfort of our new accommodations. I was myself compelled to leave the bed which had been kindly assigned me, and take my abode in a chair for the night, nor did it fare much better with the rest. It was for time to reconcile us to this sudden and violent change, to break through what had become habit, and to inure us once more to the usages...
Side 487 - Owing to the abundance of light reflected from the white and glittering surface, no shadows were cast on any part; and those lines which intersected the sky could alone be distinguished : hence the mass stood out in the boldest relief. Several glaciers descended in a winding course from the upper great expanse of snow to the sea-coast: they may be likened to great frozen Niagaras; and perhaps these cataracts of blue ice are full as beautiful as the moving ones of water.
Side 385 - Greenwich, in the latitude of 74° 44' 20"; by which His Majesty's ships under my orders became entitled to the sum of five thousand pounds, being the reward offered by the King's order in council, grounded on a late Act of Parliament, to such of his Majesty's subjects as might succeed in penetrating thus far to the westward within the Arctic Circle.
Side 513 - ... and he abused all the other tribes: he stoutly declared that there was no Devil in his land. Jemmy was short, thick, and fat, but vain of his personal appearance; he used always to wear gloves; his hair was neatly cut, and he was distressed if his well-polished shoes were dirtied. He was fond of admiring himself in a...