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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... miles and miles compel even the hardiest plant to crouch before the blast and creep along the ground . > Nothing can be more melancholy than the aspect of the boundless morasses or arid wastes of the tundri . Dingy mosses and gray ...
... miles and miles compel even the hardiest plant to crouch before the blast and creep along the ground . > Nothing can be more melancholy than the aspect of the boundless morasses or arid wastes of the tundri . Dingy mosses and gray ...
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... miles of fruitful territory on the south- western frontiers of his vast empire would be of greater value to the Czar than that of those boundless wastes , which are tenanted only by a few wretched pastoral tribes , or some equally ...
... miles of fruitful territory on the south- western frontiers of his vast empire would be of greater value to the Czar than that of those boundless wastes , which are tenanted only by a few wretched pastoral tribes , or some equally ...
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... miles an hour , these birds may breed in the re- motest northern solitude , and in a few hours , on a fall of deep autumn snow , convey themselves by their swiftness of wing to better feeding - grounds . One of the most interesting of ...
... miles an hour , these birds may breed in the re- motest northern solitude , and in a few hours , on a fall of deep autumn snow , convey themselves by their swiftness of wing to better feeding - grounds . One of the most interesting of ...
Side 46
... mile after mile comes floating by , impress the spectator with the idea of a boundless extent and an irresistible power . But , vast and mighty as they are , they are unable to withstand the elements combined for their destruction , and ...
... mile after mile comes floating by , impress the spectator with the idea of a boundless extent and an irresistible power . But , vast and mighty as they are , they are unable to withstand the elements combined for their destruction , and ...
Side 47
... miles per hour . When a field thus sweeping through the waters comes into collision with another FORMS OF ICEBERGS . which may possibly be revolving with equal rapidity in an. DRIFTING IN THE ICE . GLACIER , BUTE INLET . THE ARCTIC SEAS ...
... miles per hour . When a field thus sweeping through the waters comes into collision with another FORMS OF ICEBERGS . which may possibly be revolving with equal rapidity in an. DRIFTING IN THE ICE . GLACIER , BUTE INLET . THE ARCTIC SEAS ...
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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...