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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... remarkable clattering sound is heard to some distance , about the cause of which naturalists and travellers by no means agree . Most probably it results from the great length of the two digits of the cloven hoof , which when the animal ...
... remarkable clattering sound is heard to some distance , about the cause of which naturalists and travellers by no means agree . Most probably it results from the great length of the two digits of the cloven hoof , which when the animal ...
Side 35
... remarkable that both sexes have horns , while in all other members of the deer race the males alone are in possession of this ornament or weapon . The female brings forth in May a single calf , rarely two . This is small and weak , but ...
... remarkable that both sexes have horns , while in all other members of the deer race the males alone are in possession of this ornament or weapon . The female brings forth in May a single calf , rarely two . This is small and weak , but ...
Side 40
... remarkable quadrupeds of the high northern regions is the musk - ox ( Ovibos moschatus ) , which by some naturalists has been consid- ered as intermediate between the sheep and the ox . It is about the height of a deer , but of much ...
... remarkable quadrupeds of the high northern regions is the musk - ox ( Ovibos moschatus ) , which by some naturalists has been consid- ered as intermediate between the sheep and the ox . It is about the height of a deer , but of much ...
Side 54
... remarkable phenomena of the Polar Sea is the ice - blink , or reflection of the ice against the sky . A stripe of light , similar to the early dawn of morning , but without its redness , appears above the horizon , and traces a complete ...
... remarkable phenomena of the Polar Sea is the ice - blink , or reflection of the ice against the sky . A stripe of light , similar to the early dawn of morning , but without its redness , appears above the horizon , and traces a complete ...
Side 55
... remarkable delusion of this kind was observed by Scoresby while sailing through the open ice , far from land . Suddenly an immense amphitheatre inclosed by high walls of basaltic ice , so like natural rock as to deceive one of his most ...
... remarkable delusion of this kind was observed by Scoresby while sailing through the open ice , far from land . Suddenly an immense amphitheatre inclosed by high walls of basaltic ice , so like natural rock as to deceive one of his most ...
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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...