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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... mean summer temper- ature but little above the freezing - point of water ( + 364 ° ) , while Jakutsk , sit- uated in the heart of Siberia , and 20 ° nearer to the Equator , has a winter of —36 ° 6 ′ , and a summer of + 66 ° 6 ' . The ...
... mean summer temper- ature but little above the freezing - point of water ( + 364 ° ) , while Jakutsk , sit- uated in the heart of Siberia , and 20 ° nearer to the Equator , has a winter of —36 ° 6 ′ , and a summer of + 66 ° 6 ' . The ...
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... means the most comely of its race . Its clear , dark eye has , indeed , a beautiful expression , but it has neither the noble proportions of the stag nor the grace of the roebuck , and its thick square - form- ed body is far from being ...
... means the most comely of its race . Its clear , dark eye has , indeed , a beautiful expression , but it has neither the noble proportions of the stag nor the grace of the roebuck , and its thick square - form- ed body is far from being ...
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... winter . The reindeer is easily tamed , and soon gets accustomed to its master , whose society it loves , attracted as it were by a kind of innate sympathy ; for , unlike all other domestic animals , it is by no means 36 THE POLAR WORLD .
... winter . The reindeer is easily tamed , and soon gets accustomed to its master , whose society it loves , attracted as it were by a kind of innate sympathy ; for , unlike all other domestic animals , it is by no means 36 THE POLAR WORLD .
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Georg Hartwig. all other domestic animals , it is by no means dependent on man for its subsist- ence , but finds its nourishment alone , and wanders about freely in summer and in winter without ever being inclosed in a stable . These ...
Georg Hartwig. all other domestic animals , it is by no means dependent on man for its subsist- ence , but finds its nourishment alone , and wanders about freely in summer and in winter without ever being inclosed in a stable . These ...
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... means for keeping them in check . A wet summer , an early cold and snowless autumn destroy them by millions , and then of course years are necessary to recruit their numbers . With the exception of the bear and the hedgehog , they are ...
... means for keeping them in check . A wet summer , an early cold and snowless autumn destroy them by millions , and then of course years are necessary to recruit their numbers . With the exception of the bear and the hedgehog , they are ...
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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...