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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... length of the two digits of the cloven hoof , which when the animal sets its foot upon the ground separate widely , and when it again raises its hoof suddenly clap against each other . A long mane of a dirty white color hangs from the ...
... length of the two digits of the cloven hoof , which when the animal sets its foot upon the ground separate widely , and when it again raises its hoof suddenly clap against each other . A long mane of a dirty white color hangs from the ...
Side 36
... length he uncovers the lichen . No instance has ever occurred of a reindeer making such a cavity with- out discovering the moss he seeks . In summer their food is of a different na- ture ; they are then pastured upon green herbs or the ...
... length he uncovers the lichen . No instance has ever occurred of a reindeer making such a cavity with- out discovering the moss he seeks . In summer their food is of a different na- ture ; they are then pastured upon green herbs or the ...
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... length the slope loses itself in the unknown ice - desert beyond . But grand above all is the magnificent Humboldt glacier , which , connecting Greenland and Washington Land , forms a solid glassy wall 300 feet above the water - level ...
... length the slope loses itself in the unknown ice - desert beyond . But grand above all is the magnificent Humboldt glacier , which , connecting Greenland and Washington Land , forms a solid glassy wall 300 feet above the water - level ...
Side 54
... length , after five hours of rolling and crashing , there remained of this splendid mass of congelation not a fragment that rose fifty feet above the water . * One of the most remarkable phenomena of the Polar Sea is the ice - blink ...
... length , after five hours of rolling and crashing , there remained of this splendid mass of congelation not a fragment that rose fifty feet above the water . * One of the most remarkable phenomena of the Polar Sea is the ice - blink ...
Side 60
... length of only sixty feet , the Balaenoptera boops grows to the vast length of 100 feet and more . There is also a difference in their food , for the Greenland whale chiefly feeds upon the minute animals that crowd the olive - colored ...
... length of only sixty feet , the Balaenoptera boops grows to the vast length of 100 feet and more . There is also a difference in their food , for the Greenland whale chiefly feeds upon the minute animals that crowd the olive - colored ...
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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...