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 ix
... SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA . Ivan the Terrible . - Strogonoff . - Yermak , the Robber and Conqueror . - His Expeditions to Siberia.- Battle of Tobolsk . - Yermak's Death . - Progress of the Russians to Ochotsk . - Semen Deshnew . Condition ...
... SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA . Ivan the Terrible . - Strogonoff . - Yermak , the Robber and Conqueror . - His Expeditions to Siberia.- Battle of Tobolsk . - Yermak's Death . - Progress of the Russians to Ochotsk . - Semen Deshnew . Condition ...
Side xii
... Shores of the Polar Sea . - Beechey . - Parry's sledge Journey towards the Pole . - Sir John Ross's second Journey . - Five Years in the Arctic Ocean . - Back's Discovery of Great Fish River . - Dease and Simpson ( 1837-1839 ) ...
... Shores of the Polar Sea . - Beechey . - Parry's sledge Journey towards the Pole . - Sir John Ross's second Journey . - Five Years in the Arctic Ocean . - Back's Discovery of Great Fish River . - Dease and Simpson ( 1837-1839 ) ...
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... shores of the North Polar seas , and gradually merging toward the south into the forest - region , which encircles them with a garland of evergreen coniferæ . This treeless zone bears the name of the " barren grounds , " or the ...
... shores of the North Polar seas , and gradually merging toward the south into the forest - region , which encircles them with a garland of evergreen coniferæ . This treeless zone bears the name of the " barren grounds , " or the ...
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... shores fanned by the cooled sea - breeze some protection against the attacks of the stinging flies that rise in myriads from the swamps . Thus during several months the tundra presents an animated scene , in which man also plays his ...
... shores fanned by the cooled sea - breeze some protection against the attacks of the stinging flies that rise in myriads from the swamps . Thus during several months the tundra presents an animated scene , in which man also plays his ...
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... shore , in the land of the Tchuktchi , they begin again more to the south , in 63 ° , thence continually rise as far as the Lena , where Anjou found trees in 71 ° N. , and then fall again toward the Obi , where the forests do not even ...
... shore , in the land of the Tchuktchi , they begin again more to the south , in 63 ° , thence continually rise as far as the Lena , where Anjou found trees in 71 ° N. , and then fall again toward the Obi , where the forests do not even ...
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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 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Side 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
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...