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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... never yet been explored , is of course an undecided question : so much is cer- tain , that the observations hitherto made during the winter of the Arctic re- gions have been limited to too short a time , and are too few in number , to ...
... never yet been explored , is of course an undecided question : so much is cer- tain , that the observations hitherto made during the winter of the Arctic re- gions have been limited to too short a time , and are too few in number , to ...
Side 32
... brilliant moon , which for days continually circles around the horizon , never setting until she has run her long course of brightness . The. AURORA SEEN IN GREENLAND . THE MUSK - OX . 32 THE POLAR WORLD . Aurora seen in Greenland.
... brilliant moon , which for days continually circles around the horizon , never setting until she has run her long course of brightness . The. AURORA SEEN IN GREENLAND . THE MUSK - OX . 32 THE POLAR WORLD . Aurora seen in Greenland.
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... never so agreeable to him as when he digs for it himself . In his manner of doing this he is remarkably adroit . Having first ascertained , by thrusting his muzzle into the snow , whether the moss lies below or not , he begins making a ...
... never so agreeable to him as when he digs for it himself . In his manner of doing this he is remarkably adroit . Having first ascertained , by thrusting his muzzle into the snow , whether the moss lies below or not , he begins making a ...
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... never ap- pears to greater advantage than when clothed by the midnight sun with all the splendid colors of twilight . " The bergs , " says Dr. Hayes , describing one of these enchanting nights , " had wholly lost their chilly aspect ...
... never ap- pears to greater advantage than when clothed by the midnight sun with all the splendid colors of twilight . " The bergs , " says Dr. Hayes , describing one of these enchanting nights , " had wholly lost their chilly aspect ...
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... never attack but when provoked , have turned upon their assailants , or have even assembled from a distance to assist a wounded com- rade . Like the seals , the walrus is easily tamed , and of a most affectionate temper . This was shown ...
... never attack but when provoked , have turned upon their assailants , or have even assembled from a distance to assist a wounded com- rade . Like the seals , the walrus is easily tamed , and of a most affectionate temper . This was shown ...
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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...