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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... Reindeer . - Structure of its Foot . - Clattering Noise when walking . - Antlers . - Extraordinary olfactory Powers . - The Icelandic Moss . - Present and Former Range of the Reindeer . - Its invalu- able Qualities as an Arctic domestic ...
... Reindeer . - Structure of its Foot . - Clattering Noise when walking . - Antlers . - Extraordinary olfactory Powers . - The Icelandic Moss . - Present and Former Range of the Reindeer . - Its invalu- able Qualities as an Arctic domestic ...
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... Reindeer . - Polar Bears . - Birds . - The Eider - duck . - Videy . - Vigr . - The Wild Swan . - The Ra- ven . - The Jerfalcon . - The Giant auk , or Geirfugl . - Fish . - Fishing Season . - The White Shark.- Mineral Kingdom . - Sulphur ...
... Reindeer . - Polar Bears . - Birds . - The Eider - duck . - Videy . - Vigr . - The Wild Swan . - The Ra- ven . - The Jerfalcon . - The Giant auk , or Geirfugl . - Fish . - Fishing Season . - The White Shark.- Mineral Kingdom . - Sulphur ...
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... Reindeer Pens . - Milking the Reindeer.- Migration.- The Lapland Dog . - Skiders , or Skates . - The Sledge , or Pulka . - Natural Beauties of Lapland .--- Attachment of the Lapps to their Country . - Bear - hunting . - Wolf - hunting ...
... Reindeer Pens . - Milking the Reindeer.- Migration.- The Lapland Dog . - Skiders , or Skates . - The Sledge , or Pulka . - Natural Beauties of Lapland .--- Attachment of the Lapps to their Country . - Bear - hunting . - Wolf - hunting ...
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... Reindeer - hunting . - Famine . - Inundations . -The Siberian Dog . - First Journeys over the Ice of the Polar Sea , and Exploration of the Coast beyond Cape Shelagskoi in 1821. - Dreadful Dangers and Hardships . — Matiuschkin's Sledge ...
... Reindeer - hunting . - Famine . - Inundations . -The Siberian Dog . - First Journeys over the Ice of the Polar Sea , and Exploration of the Coast beyond Cape Shelagskoi in 1821. - Dreadful Dangers and Hardships . — Matiuschkin's Sledge ...
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... Reindeer Tchuktchi . The Onkilon , or Sedentary Tchuktchi . — Their Mode of Life ... Page 262 CHAPTER XXV . BERING SEA - THE RUSSIAN FUR COMPANY - THE ALEUTS . Bering Sea - Unalaska . - The Pribilow Islands . - St . Matthew . - St ...
... Reindeer Tchuktchi . The Onkilon , or Sedentary Tchuktchi . — Their Mode of Life ... Page 262 CHAPTER XXV . BERING SEA - THE RUSSIAN FUR COMPANY - THE ALEUTS . Bering Sea - Unalaska . - The Pribilow Islands . - St . Matthew . - St ...
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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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