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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... says Kane , " by which we adapt our- selves to climate are more striking here than in the tropics . In the Polar zone the assault is immediate and sudden , and , unlike the insidious fatality of hot countries , produces its results ...
... says Kane , " by which we adapt our- selves to climate are more striking here than in the tropics . In the Polar zone the assault is immediate and sudden , and , unlike the insidious fatality of hot countries , produces its results ...
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... says Horace , must have been shielded with threefold brass — and yet the poet knew but the sunny Mediterranean , with its tepid floods and smiling shores : how , then , would he have found words to express his astonishment at the ...
... says Horace , must have been shielded with threefold brass — and yet the poet knew but the sunny Mediterranean , with its tepid floods and smiling shores : how , then , would he have found words to express his astonishment at the ...
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... says Dr. Hayes , describing one of these enchanting nights , " had wholly lost their chilly aspect , and glittering in the blaze of the brilliant heavens , seemed in the distance like masses of burnished metal or solid flame . Nearer at ...
... says Dr. Hayes , describing one of these enchanting nights , " had wholly lost their chilly aspect , and glittering in the blaze of the brilliant heavens , seemed in the distance like masses of burnished metal or solid flame . Nearer at ...
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... says Kane , " which I relied so much upon , was entirely destroyed . It had been built with extreme care , of rocks which had been assembled by very heavy labor , and adjusted with much aid , often , from capstan - bars as levers . The ...
... says Kane , " which I relied so much upon , was entirely destroyed . It had been built with extreme care , of rocks which had been assembled by very heavy labor , and adjusted with much aid , often , from capstan - bars as levers . The ...
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... says Mr. Holland , " to give any idea of the general appear- ance of these once molten masses . Here a great crag has toppled over into some deep crevasse , there a huge mass has been upheaved above the fiery stream which has seethed ...
... says Mr. Holland , " to give any idea of the general appear- ance of these once molten masses . Here a great crag has toppled over into some deep crevasse , there a huge mass has been upheaved above the fiery stream which has seethed ...
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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.
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