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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... Banks of Newfoundland.- Mode of Fishing . - Throaters , Headers , Splitters , Salters , and Packers . - Fogs and Storms . - Seal- catching .. 376 CHAPTER XXXVI . GREENLAND . A mysterious Region . - Ancient Scandinavian Colonists ...
... Banks of Newfoundland.- Mode of Fishing . - Throaters , Headers , Splitters , Salters , and Packers . - Fogs and Storms . - Seal- catching .. 376 CHAPTER XXXVI . GREENLAND . A mysterious Region . - Ancient Scandinavian Colonists ...
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... 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 • • • • 76. A Samoïede Priest .. 77. Banks of xiv CONTENTS .
... 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 • • • • 76. A Samoïede Priest .. 77. Banks of xiv CONTENTS .
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Georg Hartwig. • • 76. A Samoïede Priest .. 77. Banks of the Irtysch. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . 1. Esquimaux Dog - team .. 2. The Tundra of Siberia . • 3. Indian Summer Encampment , Alaska . 4. Rocks and Ice .. 5. Coast of Labrador . 6 ...
Georg Hartwig. • • 76. A Samoïede Priest .. 77. Banks of the Irtysch. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . 1. Esquimaux Dog - team .. 2. The Tundra of Siberia . • 3. Indian Summer Encampment , Alaska . 4. Rocks and Ice .. 5. Coast of Labrador . 6 ...
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Georg Hartwig. 76. A Samoïede Priest .. 77. Banks of the Irtysch . 78. Group of Kirghis . 79. View of Tagilsk ... 80. The Beach at Nicolayevsk . 81. On the Amoor . 82. Village on the Amoor . 83. Koriak Yourt ......... . 84. Kamchatka ...
Georg Hartwig. 76. A Samoïede Priest .. 77. Banks of the Irtysch . 78. Group of Kirghis . 79. View of Tagilsk ... 80. The Beach at Nicolayevsk . 81. On the Amoor . 82. Village on the Amoor . 83. Koriak Yourt ......... . 84. Kamchatka ...
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... banks of the rivers , on the flat strands , or along the fish - teem- ing coasts , they find an abundance of food , and where at the same time they can with greater security build their nests and rear their young . Some re- main on the ...
... banks of the rivers , on the flat strands , or along the fish - teem- ing coasts , they find an abundance of food , and where at the same time they can with greater security build their nests and rear their young . Some re- main on the ...
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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...