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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... Lives . - Pounds for catching Reindeer . - Their Lodges .... CHAPTER XXXII . ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY , FROM THE CABOTS TO BAFFIN . Page 331 First Scandinavian Discoverer of America . - The Cabots . - Willoughby and Chancellor ( 1553 ...
... Lives . - Pounds for catching Reindeer . - Their Lodges .... CHAPTER XXXII . ARCTIC VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY , FROM THE CABOTS TO BAFFIN . Page 331 First Scandinavian Discoverer of America . - The Cabots . - Willoughby and Chancellor ( 1553 ...
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... live on grass , roots , the shoots of the willow , and the dwarf birch , but chiefly on lichens . They do not gather hoards of provisions for the winter , but live upon what they find be- neath the snow . They seldom prove injurious to ...
... live on grass , roots , the shoots of the willow , and the dwarf birch , but chiefly on lichens . They do not gather hoards of provisions for the winter , but live upon what they find be- neath the snow . They seldom prove injurious to ...
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... lives almost exclusively on insects , particularly gnats during the winter it feeds on all sorts of seeds , and then famine frequently compels it to wander to a less rig- orous climate . BERNIDE GOOSE : The Lapland bunting ...
... lives almost exclusively on insects , particularly gnats during the winter it feeds on all sorts of seeds , and then famine frequently compels it to wander to a less rig- orous climate . BERNIDE GOOSE : The Lapland bunting ...
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... live by breeding cattle is as three to one , compared with those who chiefly depend on the sea for their subsistence . Milk and whey are almost the only beverages of the Icelanders . Without butter they will eat no fish ; and curdled ...
... live by breeding cattle is as three to one , compared with those who chiefly depend on the sea for their subsistence . Milk and whey are almost the only beverages of the Icelanders . Without butter they will eat no fish ; and curdled ...
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... live bird , if this truly " rara avis " could still be found . The waters of Iceland abound with excellent fish , which not only supply the islanders with a great part of their food and furnish them with one of their chief articles of ...
... live bird , if this truly " rara avis " could still be found . The waters of Iceland abound with excellent fish , which not only supply the islanders with a great part of their food and furnish them with one of their chief articles of ...
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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...