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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... Summer . - Their Silence and Desolation in Winter . - Protection afforded to Vegetation by the Snow . - Flower - growth in the highest Latitudes . - Character of Tundra Vegetation . - Southern Boundary - line of the barren Grounds ...
... Summer . - Their Silence and Desolation in Winter . - Protection afforded to Vegetation by the Snow . - Flower - growth in the highest Latitudes . - Character of Tundra Vegetation . - Southern Boundary - line of the barren Grounds ...
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... SUMMER ENCAMPMENT , ALASKA . VERGE OF FOREST REGION . forms a vast circle ,. 18 THE POLAR WORLD . Indian Summer Encampment, Alaska.
... SUMMER ENCAMPMENT , ALASKA . VERGE OF FOREST REGION . forms a vast circle ,. 18 THE POLAR WORLD . Indian Summer Encampment, Alaska.
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... summer attracts hosts of migratory birds to the Arctic wildernesses , shoals of salmon and sturgeons enter the rivers in obe- dience to the instinct that forces them to quit the seas and to swim stream upward , for the purpose of ...
... summer attracts hosts of migratory birds to the Arctic wildernesses , shoals of salmon and sturgeons enter the rivers in obe- dience to the instinct that forces them to quit the seas and to swim stream upward , for the purpose of ...
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... summer , which , though able to bring forth new shoots , does not last long enough for the formation of wood . Hence the growth of trees . becomes slower and slower on advancing to the north ; so that on the banks of the Great Bear Lake ...
... summer , which , though able to bring forth new shoots , does not last long enough for the formation of wood . Hence the growth of trees . becomes slower and slower on advancing to the north ; so that on the banks of the Great Bear Lake ...
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... summer . On the other hand , the large continental tracts of Asia or America that shelve toward the pole have a more intense winter cold and a far greater summer's heat than many coast - lands or islands situated far nearer to the pole ...
... summer . On the other hand , the large continental tracts of Asia or America that shelve toward the pole have a more intense winter cold and a far greater summer's heat than many coast - lands or islands situated far nearer to the pole ...
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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...