The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 páginas |
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... Appearance of the Samoïedes . — Their Dress . - A Samoïede Belle . - Character of the Samoïedes . - Their decreasing Numbers . — Traditions of ancient Heroes . 179 CHAPTER XV . THE OSTIAKS . What is the Obi ? -Inundations . - An Ostiak ...
... Appearance of the Samoïedes . — Their Dress . - A Samoïede Belle . - Character of the Samoïedes . - Their decreasing Numbers . — Traditions of ancient Heroes . 179 CHAPTER XV . THE OSTIAKS . What is the Obi ? -Inundations . - An Ostiak ...
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... Appearance . Their Dress . - Snow Huts . - The Kayak , or the Baidar . - Hunting Apparatus and Weapons . - Enmity be- tween the Esquimaux and the Red Indian . - The " Bloody Falls . " - Chase of the Reindeer . - Bird- catching . - Whale ...
... Appearance . Their Dress . - Snow Huts . - The Kayak , or the Baidar . - Hunting Apparatus and Weapons . - Enmity be- tween the Esquimaux and the Red Indian . - The " Bloody Falls . " - Chase of the Reindeer . - Bird- catching . - Whale ...
Página xii
... Appearance and Dress . - Their Love of Finery . - Condition of the Women . - Strange Customs . - Character . - Feuds with the Esquimaux . - Their suspicious and timo- rous Lives . - Pounds for catching Reindeer . - Their Lodges ...
... Appearance and Dress . - Their Love of Finery . - Condition of the Women . - Strange Customs . - Character . - Feuds with the Esquimaux . - Their suspicious and timo- rous Lives . - Pounds for catching Reindeer . - Their Lodges ...
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... appearance increases on advancing northward , until suddenly their decrepit age is re- vealed by the thick bushes of lichens which clothe or hang down from their shrivelled boughs . Farther to the south , large trees are found scattered ...
... appearance increases on advancing northward , until suddenly their decrepit age is re- vealed by the thick bushes of lichens which clothe or hang down from their shrivelled boughs . Farther to the south , large trees are found scattered ...
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... appearance of which the phenomenon attains its highest degree of splendor . The brilliancy of the streams , which are com- monly red at their base , green in the middle , and light yellow toward the zenith , increases , while at the ...
... appearance of which the phenomenon attains its highest degree of splendor . The brilliancy of the streams , which are com- monly red at their base , green in the middle , and light yellow toward the zenith , increases , while at the ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 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...