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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Página vii
... Dangers peculiar to the Arctic Sea . - Ice - fields . - Hummocks . - Collision of Ice - fields . - Icebergs . - Their Origin . Their Size . - The Glaciers which give them Birth . - Their Beauty . - Sometimes useful Auxiliaries to the ...
... Dangers peculiar to the Arctic Sea . - Ice - fields . - Hummocks . - Collision of Ice - fields . - Icebergs . - Their Origin . Their Size . - The Glaciers which give them Birth . - Their Beauty . - Sometimes useful Auxiliaries to the ...
Página viii
... dangerous Neighborhood.- Interior Plateau . - Flora of Spitzbergen . -Its Similarity with that of the Alps above the Snow - line . - Reindeer . - The hyperborean Ptarmigan.— Fishes . - Coal . - Drift - wood . - Discovery of Spitzbergen ...
... dangerous Neighborhood.- Interior Plateau . - Flora of Spitzbergen . -Its Similarity with that of the Alps above the Snow - line . - Reindeer . - The hyperborean Ptarmigan.— Fishes . - Coal . - Drift - wood . - Discovery of Spitzbergen ...
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... Dangers and Hardships . — Matiuschkin's Sledge - journey over the Polar Sea in 1822. - Last Adventures on the Polar Sea . - A Run for Life . - Return to St. Petersburg ... 233 CHAPTER XXI . THE TUNGUSI . Their Relationship to the ...
... Dangers and Hardships . — Matiuschkin's Sledge - journey over the Polar Sea in 1822. - Last Adventures on the Polar Sea . - A Run for Life . - Return to St. Petersburg ... 233 CHAPTER XXI . THE TUNGUSI . Their Relationship to the ...
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... Dangerous Landing on Franklin Island . - An Eruption of Mount Erebus . The Great Ice Barrier . - Providential Escape . - Dreadful Gale . - Collision . - Hazardous Passage be- tween two Icebergs . - Termination of the Voyage .. CHAPTER ...
... Dangerous Landing on Franklin Island . - An Eruption of Mount Erebus . The Great Ice Barrier . - Providential Escape . - Dreadful Gale . - Collision . - Hazardous Passage be- tween two Icebergs . - Termination of the Voyage .. CHAPTER ...
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... dangerous and blood - thirsty than the large felidæ of the torrid zone . The comparatively small number of animals living in the Arctic forests corresponds with the monotony of their vegetation . Here we should seek in vain for that ...
... dangerous and blood - thirsty than the large felidæ of the torrid zone . The comparatively small number of animals living in the Arctic forests corresponds with the monotony of their vegetation . Here we should seek in vain for that ...
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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...