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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... months . An admirable instinct leads their winged legions from distant climes to the Arctic wildernesses , where in the morasses or lakes , on the banks of the rivers , on the flat strands , or along the fish - teem- ing coasts , they ...
... months . An admirable instinct leads their winged legions from distant climes to the Arctic wildernesses , where in the morasses or lakes , on the banks of the rivers , on the flat strands , or along the fish - teem- ing coasts , they ...
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... months circles above the horizon , and in favorable localities calls forth the pow- ers of vegetation in an incredibly short time , even Washington , Grinnell Land , and Spitzbergen are able to boast of flowers . Morton plucked a ...
... months circles above the horizon , and in favorable localities calls forth the pow- ers of vegetation in an incredibly short time , even Washington , Grinnell Land , and Spitzbergen are able to boast of flowers . Morton plucked a ...
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... months , and fill the straits of the American north - eastern Archipelago with ice , are probably the main cause of ... month of January . The voyages of Kane and Belcher have made us acquainted with the low- est temperatures ever felt ...
... months , and fill the straits of the American north - eastern Archipelago with ice , are probably the main cause of ... month of January . The voyages of Kane and Belcher have made us acquainted with the low- est temperatures ever felt ...
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... months , when it is dry and brittle , one might easily wonder that so large a quadruped as the reindeer should make it his favorite food and fatten upon it ; but toward the month of Septem- ber the lichen becomes soft , tender , and ...
... months , when it is dry and brittle , one might easily wonder that so large a quadruped as the reindeer should make it his favorite food and fatten upon it ; but toward the month of Septem- ber the lichen becomes soft , tender , and ...
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... months , and make the reindeer the fit companion of the northern nomad , whose simple wants it almost wholly supplies . During his wanderings , it carries his tent and scanty household furniture , or drags his sledge over the snow . On ...
... months , and make the reindeer the fit companion of the northern nomad , whose simple wants it almost wholly supplies . During his wanderings , it carries his tent and scanty household furniture , or drags his sledge over the snow . On ...
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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...