The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 sider |
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... Polar Ice . - Tides . - Currents . - Ice a bad Conductor of Heat.- Wise Provisions of Nature .. 45 • CHAPTER IV . ARCTIC MARINE ANIMALS . Populousness of the Arctic Seas . The Greenland Whale . - The Fin Whales . The Narwhal . The ...
... Polar Ice . - Tides . - Currents . - Ice a bad Conductor of Heat.- Wise Provisions of Nature .. 45 • CHAPTER IV . ARCTIC MARINE ANIMALS . Populousness of the Arctic Seas . The Greenland Whale . - The Fin Whales . The Narwhal . The ...
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... Polar Sea , and Exploration of the Coast beyond Cape Shelagskoi in 1821. - Dreadful Dangers and Hardships . — Matiuschkin's Sledge - journey over the Polar Sea in 1822. - Last Adventures on the Polar Sea . - A Run for Life . - Return to ...
... Polar Sea , and Exploration of the Coast beyond Cape Shelagskoi in 1821. - Dreadful Dangers and Hardships . — Matiuschkin's Sledge - journey over the Polar Sea in 1822. - Last Adventures on the Polar Sea . - A Run for Life . - Return to ...
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... Polar Bear . - How he teaches the Innuits to catch Seals . - At a Seal - hole . - Dogs as Seal - hunters.— Dogs and Bears . - Dogs and Reindeers . - Innuits and Walruses . - More about Igloos . - Innuit Imple- ments . - Uses of the ...
... Polar Bear . - How he teaches the Innuits to catch Seals . - At a Seal - hole . - Dogs as Seal - hunters.— Dogs and Bears . - Dogs and Reindeers . - Innuits and Walruses . - More about Igloos . - Innuit Imple- ments . - Uses of the ...
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... 464 HALL . 465 • HALL . 467 THE POLAR WORLD . CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS . 162. The Frozen Sailor .. 163. Farewell of the Innuits . THE TUNDRA OF SIBERIA . INDIAN SUMMER ENCAMPMENT , ALASKA. xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... 464 HALL . 465 • HALL . 467 THE POLAR WORLD . CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS . 162. The Frozen Sailor .. 163. Farewell of the Innuits . THE TUNDRA OF SIBERIA . INDIAN SUMMER ENCAMPMENT , ALASKA. xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... Polar Ocean or its tributary bays . The terri- tories drained by these streams , some of which ( such as the Mackenzie , the Yukon , the Lena , the Yenisei , and the Obi ) rank among the giant rivers of the earth , form , along with the ...
... Polar Ocean or its tributary bays . The terri- tories drained by these streams , some of which ( such as the Mackenzie , the Yukon , the Lena , the Yenisei , and the Obi ) rank among the giant rivers of the earth , form , along with the ...
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Aleuts animal Antarctic appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Captain Castrén chief climate coast cold Cossacks covered distance dogs Esquimaux expedition farther feet fish forests frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland Icelandic horses Indians inhabitants island Jakut Jakutsk Jenissei journey Kamchatka lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains navigators night northern Norwegian Nova Zembla Obdorsk obliged ocean once Ostiaks party Polar Sea pole reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seldom ship shores Siberia Sir James Ross skins sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot stones storm strait stream summer Tchuktchi temperature tent thick tion traveller trees tribes tundra vast vegetation versts vessels voyage walrus whale whole wild wind winter Yermak
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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 393 - The head of the bay, as well as two places on each side, was terminated by perpendicular ice-cliffs of considerable height. Pieces were continually breaking off, and floating out to sea ; and a great fall happened while we were in the bay, which made a noise like cannon. The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their...