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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... Land of Thor . DUFFERIN , LORD : " Letters from High Latitudes . " HALL , CHARLES FRANCIS : " Arctic Researches , and Life among the Esquimaux . " HARPER'S MAGAZINE : The Illustrations credited to this periodical have been furnished ...
... Land of Thor . DUFFERIN , LORD : " Letters from High Latitudes . " HALL , CHARLES FRANCIS : " Arctic Researches , and Life among the Esquimaux . " HARPER'S MAGAZINE : The Illustrations credited to this periodical have been furnished ...
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Georg Hartwig. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS . The barren Grounds or Tundri . - Abundance of animal Life on the ... LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The Reindeer . - Structure of its Foot . - Clattering Noise when walking . - Antlers ...
Georg Hartwig. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS . The barren Grounds or Tundri . - Abundance of animal Life on the ... LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The Reindeer . - Structure of its Foot . - Clattering Noise when walking . - Antlers ...
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... Lands on the Island of Kaiak . — Shameful Conduct of Bering . — Ship- wreck on Bering Island .-- Bering's Death . - Return to Kamchatka . - Loss of Property . - Persecutions of the Siberian Authorities . - Frozen ... Land of the X CONTENTS .
... Lands on the Island of Kaiak . — Shameful Conduct of Bering . — Ship- wreck on Bering Island .-- Bering's Death . - Return to Kamchatka . - Loss of Property . - Persecutions of the Siberian Authorities . - Frozen ... Land of the X CONTENTS .
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... land Journey.- Dreadful Sufferings . - Parry's second Voyage ( 1821-1823 ) . - Iligliuk.- Lyon ( 1824 ) .- Parry's third Voyage ( 1824 ) .— Franklin's second land Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea . - Beechey . - Parry's sledge ...
... land Journey.- Dreadful Sufferings . - Parry's second Voyage ( 1821-1823 ) . - Iligliuk.- Lyon ( 1824 ) .- Parry's third Voyage ( 1824 ) .— Franklin's second land Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea . - Beechey . - Parry's sledge ...
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... land prevents their action , the woods advance farther to the north . Thus the barren grounds attain their most southerly limit in Labrador , where they descend to latitude 57 ° , and this is sufficiently explained by the position of ...
... land prevents their action , the woods advance farther to the north . Thus the barren grounds attain their most southerly limit in Labrador , where they descend to latitude 57 ° , and this is sufficiently explained by the position of ...
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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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