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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... thick mantle of snow covers the hardened earth , the frozen lake , the ice - bound river , and con- ceals them all - seven , eight , nine months long - under its monotonous pall , except where the furious north - east wind sweeps it ...
... thick mantle of snow covers the hardened earth , the frozen lake , the ice - bound river , and con- ceals them all - seven , eight , nine months long - under its monotonous pall , except where the furious north - east wind sweeps it ...
Side 25
... thick bushes of lichens which clothe or hang down from their shrivelled boughs . Farther to the south , large trees ... thicker than a man's waist . Toward the confines of the tundra , the woods are reduced to stunted stems , covered ...
... thick bushes of lichens which clothe or hang down from their shrivelled boughs . Farther to the south , large trees ... thicker than a man's waist . Toward the confines of the tundra , the woods are reduced to stunted stems , covered ...
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... thick fur clothing ; a hut small and low , where the warmth of a fire , or simply of a train - oil lamp , is husbanded in a narrow space , and , above all , the wonderful power of the human constitution to accommodate itself to every ...
... thick fur clothing ; a hut small and low , where the warmth of a fire , or simply of a train - oil lamp , is husbanded in a narrow space , and , above all , the wonderful power of the human constitution to accommodate itself to every ...
Side 34
... thick square - form- ed body is far from being a model of elegance . Its legs are short and thick , its feet broad , but extremely well adapted for walking over the snow or on a swampy ground . The front hoofs , which are capable of ...
... thick square - form- ed body is far from being a model of elegance . Its legs are short and thick , its feet broad , but extremely well adapted for walking over the snow or on a swampy ground . The front hoofs , which are capable of ...
Side 36
... thick and nutritious . It consists almost entirely of cream , so that a great deal of water can be added before it becomes inferior to the best cow - milk . Its taste is excellent , but the butter made from it is rancid , and hardly to ...
... thick and nutritious . It consists almost entirely of cream , so that a great deal of water can be added before it becomes inferior to the best cow - milk . Its taste is excellent , but the butter made from it is rancid , and hardly to ...
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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...