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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... vessel from making her way through its yield- ing masses . The large ice - fields which the whaler encounters in Baffin's Bay , or on the seas between Spitzbergen and Greenland , constitute one of the marvels of the deep . There is a ...
... vessel from making her way through its yield- ing masses . The large ice - fields which the whaler encounters in Baffin's Bay , or on the seas between Spitzbergen and Greenland , constitute one of the marvels of the deep . There is a ...
Side 48
... vessels have been crushed to pieces between two fields in motion , for the strongest ship ever built must needs Some have been uplifted and thrown The icebergs , which , as their name indicates , rise above the water to a much more ...
... vessels have been crushed to pieces between two fields in motion , for the strongest ship ever built must needs Some have been uplifted and thrown The icebergs , which , as their name indicates , rise above the water to a much more ...
Side 118
... vessel of Algerine pirates , after plundering several places on the eastern and southern coasts of Iceland , fell like a thunderbolt on Heimaey . These mis- creants , compared with whom John was a “ gentleman " indeed , cut down every ...
... vessel of Algerine pirates , after plundering several places on the eastern and southern coasts of Iceland , fell like a thunderbolt on Heimaey . These mis- creants , compared with whom John was a “ gentleman " indeed , cut down every ...
Side 128
... vessels at a time were busy unloading coals at Kaafjord for the smelting of the ores . New copper - works had recently been opened on the opposite side of the bay at Raipass , and since then the establishment has considerably increased ...
... vessels at a time were busy unloading coals at Kaafjord for the smelting of the ores . New copper - works had recently been opened on the opposite side of the bay at Raipass , and since then the establishment has considerably increased ...
Side 129
... vessels for walrus and seal hunting at Spitzbergen and Bear Island , but the principal trade is with Archangel , and is carried on entirely in " lodjes , " or White Sea ships , with three single upright masts , each hoisting a huge try ...
... vessels for walrus and seal hunting at Spitzbergen and Bear Island , but the principal trade is with Archangel , and is carried on entirely in " lodjes , " or White Sea ships , with three single upright masts , each hoisting a huge try ...
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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...