Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822 and 1823Harper, 1841 - 302 sider |
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... fathoms deep , and has scarcely any current . At Kirensk the left bank consists of black slate rocks , with some talc . A few wersts below I saw strata of chloride slate , in red clay . About 100 wersts farther down , the right bank ...
... fathoms deep , and has scarcely any current . At Kirensk the left bank consists of black slate rocks , with some talc . A few wersts below I saw strata of chloride slate , in red clay . About 100 wersts farther down , the right bank ...
Side 26
... fathoms . This place is remarkable for an echo , which repeats the report of a pistol - shot at least a hundred times , the sound increasing in intensity so as to resemble a well - sustained running fire of musketry , or even a ...
... fathoms . This place is remarkable for an echo , which repeats the report of a pistol - shot at least a hundred times , the sound increasing in intensity so as to resemble a well - sustained running fire of musketry , or even a ...
Side 27
... fathom under water , their tops being down- ward , and their roots attached by cords to the fore- part of our vessel . As the wind had no effect on the water at that depth , the under current , acting on this kind of subaqueous sail ...
... fathom under water , their tops being down- ward , and their roots attached by cords to the fore- part of our vessel . As the wind had no effect on the water at that depth , the under current , acting on this kind of subaqueous sail ...
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... tolerably regular oval form , and is eight wersts in diameter . It is entirely surround- ed by a kind of wall , which is in some places ten fathoms high , and must have been at some former period the bank of a considerable lake , now dry.
... tolerably regular oval form , and is eight wersts in diameter . It is entirely surround- ed by a kind of wall , which is in some places ten fathoms high , and must have been at some former period the bank of a considerable lake , now dry.
Side 51
... fathoms high ; its horizontal black strata alternate with thicker gray ones , interspersed with selenite ; and veins of white selenite intersect its whole height . The government stores of salt and meal having passed this way to Kolymsk ...
... fathoms high ; its horizontal black strata alternate with thicker gray ones , interspersed with selenite ; and veins of white selenite intersect its whole height . The government stores of salt and meal having passed this way to Kolymsk ...
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animals appeared arrived banks bears boat bones breeze Cape North Cape Schelagskoj coast cold consists continued Cossacks covered cross direction distance district dogs driftwood east expedition fathoms feet fire fish fresh frozen greater Baranow Rock ground halted hills horses hummocks hunters huts Indigirka inhabitants Irkuzk island Jakuti Jakuzk Jana journey Jukahiri kind Kirensk Kolyma Kosmin Kyber lakes land larch latitude Lena light longitude by reckoning Matiuschkin meridian altitude morning mountains mouth night Nishne Kolymsk noon northern obliged Onkilon open water Ostrownoje ourselves party passed Petersburgh Pillar Island Polar Sea pood proceeded provision-sledges provisions quantity reached reindeer river roubles Russian schamans shelter shore Siberia side skin sledges snow sometimes soon Sredne Kolymsk stone-foxes stream Sucharnoje summer temperature tent thick tion train oil travelling trees tribe Tschuktschi Tundra usually valley weather wersts farther whole wild leeks wind winter
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Side 260 - With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist.
Side 264 - ... inactivity on the wild conflict of the elements, expecting every moment to be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the storm, and hurled against a large field of ice ; the crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible, the impulse of self-preservation implanted in every living being saved us. Instinctively...
Side 63 - According to his account, these bones or tusks, are less large and heavy the further we advance towards the north, so that it is a rare occurrence on the islands to meet with a tusk of more than three pood in weight, whereas on the continent, they are said often to weigh as much as twelve pood. In quantity, however, these bones increase wonderfully to the northward, and, as Sannikow expresses himself, the whole soil of the first of the Ldchow Islands appears to consist of them.
Side 123 - I have seen them operate, they have left with me a long-continued and gloomy impression. The wild look, the blood-shot eyes, the labouring breast, and convulsive utterance, the seemingly involuntary distortion of the face and the whole body, the streaming hair, even the hollow sound of the drum, all contributed to the effect ; and I can well understand that the whole should appear to the uncivilised spectator as the work of evil spirits.
Side vi - ... analogy we should be justified in expecting; unless, indeed, other land should exist to the north of the Parry group, making that portion of the ocean also a land-locked sea. The equipment of the expeditions of MM. von Wrangell...
Side 260 - We climbed one of the loftiest ice hills," says Wrangell, "affording an extensive view toward the north, and from thence we beheld the wide, immeasurable ocean spread out before our gaze. It was a fearful and magnificent spectacle, though to us a melancholy one. Fragments of ice of enormous size were floating on the surface of the agitated ocean, and were dashed by the waves with awful violence against the edge of the field on the farthest side of the channel before us. These collisions were so tremendous...
Side iv - DISCOVERY, in which our own country has taken so prominent a part;—in each, and in all of these respects, it has a claim on the attention and interest of British readers. The facts and circumstances made known by an expedition which was engaged during three years in geographical researches, extending over fifty degrees of longitude of the coasts of the Polar Sea, must in many instances bear, by a close analogy, on reasonings connected with the yet unexplored portion of the Arctic Circle; and they...
Side 279 - E. from Greenwich, by the ship's reckoning. usually accompany such a mode of life than the wandering Tungusi ; they are less cheerful and more provident. ; they lay up stores for the future, and, in general, do not remove their dwellings without an object, but only when it becomes necessary to seek fresh pasture for their reindeer. They are more covetous and more saving than belongs to the character of the genuine nomade tribes.
Side 122 - Schamanism has no dogmas of any kind; it is not a system taught or handed down from one to another; though it is so widely spread, it seems to originate with each individual separately, as the fruit of a highly excited imagination, acted upon by external impressions, which closely resemble each other throughout the deserts of northern Siberia.
Side 175 - Without entering in this place into any speculations concerning the manner in which these probably antediluvian remains came into their present situations, I would call attention to the remarkable fact that the teeth, tusks, and bones, which are called by the general name of