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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... Arrival at Home . - Results of Hall's Expedition . Innuit Traditions . - Discovery of Frobisher Relics . - Hall undertakes a second Expedi- tion . - His Statement of its Object and Prospects . - Last Tidings of Hall .. Page 433 T ...
... Arrival at Home . - Results of Hall's Expedition . Innuit Traditions . - Discovery of Frobisher Relics . - Hall undertakes a second Expedi- tion . - His Statement of its Object and Prospects . - Last Tidings of Hall .. Page 433 T ...
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... arrive . The period of their stay is but short , but their presence imparts a wonderfully cheerful aspect to regions at other times so deserted and dreary . As soon as the young are sufficiently fledged , they again betake themselves to ...
... arrive . The period of their stay is but short , but their presence imparts a wonderfully cheerful aspect to regions at other times so deserted and dreary . As soon as the young are sufficiently fledged , they again betake themselves to ...
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... arrive later , instead of landing on a free spot farther on , prefer giving their friends who are in the way a gentle push with their tusks so as to induce them to make room . Timorous and almost helpless on land , where , in spite of ...
... arrive later , instead of landing on a free spot farther on , prefer giving their friends who are in the way a gentle push with their tusks so as to induce them to make room . Timorous and almost helpless on land , where , in spite of ...
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... arrive from Copenhagen . In winter the poor animals must find their own food , and are consequently mere skeletons in spring ; they , however , soon recover in summer , though even then they have nothing whatever but the grass and small ...
... arrive from Copenhagen . In winter the poor animals must find their own food , and are consequently mere skeletons in spring ; they , however , soon recover in summer , though even then they have nothing whatever but the grass and small ...
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... drakes , who welcomed their brown wives with loud and clamorous cooing . When we arrived at the farmhouse we were cordially welcomed by its mistress . The house itself was. ICELAND . 83 The Eider-duck Koriak Yourt.........
... drakes , who welcomed their brown wives with loud and clamorous cooing . When we arrived at the farmhouse we were cordially welcomed by its mistress . The house itself was. ICELAND . 83 The Eider-duck Koriak Yourt.........
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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...