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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Side xi
... Regions they inhabit . Their physical Appearance . Their Dress . - Snow Huts . - The Kayak , or the Baidar . - Hunting Apparatus and Weapons . - Enmity be- tween the Esquimaux and the Red Indian . - The " Bloody Falls . " - Chase of the ...
... Regions they inhabit . Their physical Appearance . Their Dress . - Snow Huts . - The Kayak , or the Baidar . - Hunting Apparatus and Weapons . - Enmity be- tween the Esquimaux and the Red Indian . - The " Bloody Falls . " - Chase of the ...
Side xii
... Region . - Ancient Scandinavian Colonists . - Their Decline and Fall . - Hans Egede . - His Trials and Success . - Foundation of Godthaab . - Herrenhuth Missionaries . - Lindenow . - The Scores- bys . - Clavering . - The Danish ...
... Region . - Ancient Scandinavian Colonists . - Their Decline and Fall . - Hans Egede . - His Trials and Success . - Foundation of Godthaab . - Herrenhuth Missionaries . - Lindenow . - The Scores- bys . - Clavering . - The Danish ...
Side xiii
... Regions . - Inferiority of Climate of the former . - Its Causes . - The New Shetland Islands .-- South Georgia . - The Peruvian Stream . - Sea - birds . - The Gi- ant Petrel . - The Albatross . - The Penguin . - The Austral Whale ...
... Regions . - Inferiority of Climate of the former . - Its Causes . - The New Shetland Islands .-- South Georgia . - The Peruvian Stream . - Sea - birds . - The Gi- ant Petrel . - The Albatross . - The Penguin . - The Austral Whale ...
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... Region . 9. Forest Conflagration .. 10. Arctic Clothing .. 11. Arctic Moonlight 12. Aurora seen in Norway . • • 13. Aurora seen in Greenland . 14. Group of Reindeer .. 15. Elks .. 16. The Musk - ox . 17. Argali .. ... 18. The Snowy Owl ...
... Region . 9. Forest Conflagration .. 10. Arctic Clothing .. 11. Arctic Moonlight 12. Aurora seen in Norway . • • 13. Aurora seen in Greenland . 14. Group of Reindeer .. 15. Elks .. 16. The Musk - ox . 17. Argali .. ... 18. The Snowy Owl ...
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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...