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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... Sledge , or Pulka . - Natural Beauties of Lapland .--- Attachment of the Lapps to their Country . - Bear - hunting . - Wolf - hunting .-- Mode of Living of the wealthy Lapps .-- How they kill the Reindeer . - Visiting the Fair ...
... Sledge , or Pulka . - Natural Beauties of Lapland .--- Attachment of the Lapps to their Country . - Bear - hunting . - Wolf - hunting .-- Mode of Living of the wealthy Lapps .-- How they kill the Reindeer . - Visiting the Fair ...
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... 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 Mantchou . - Dreadful Condition of the outcast ...
... 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 Mantchou . - Dreadful Condition of the outcast ...
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... sledge Journey towards the Pole . - Sir John Ross's second Journey . - Five Years in the Arctic Ocean . - Back's Discovery of Great Fish River . - Dease and Simpson ( 1837-1839 ) .- Franklin and Crozier's last Voyage ( 1845 ) ...
... sledge Journey towards the Pole . - Sir John Ross's second Journey . - Five Years in the Arctic Ocean . - Back's Discovery of Great Fish River . - Dease and Simpson ( 1837-1839 ) .- Franklin and Crozier's last Voyage ( 1845 ) ...
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... that he sleeps on our sledge journeys without a blanket or any other covering than his walking suit , while the outside tem- perature is -30 ° . ” There are many proofs that a milder climate once reigned 28 THE POLAR WORLD .
... that he sleeps on our sledge journeys without a blanket or any other covering than his walking suit , while the outside tem- perature is -30 ° . ” There are many proofs that a milder climate once reigned 28 THE POLAR WORLD .
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... sledge with such velocity over the yielding snow - fields as the camel would be to perform his long marches through the desert without the broad elastic sole - pad on which he firmly paces the unsta- ble sands . The short legs and broad ...
... sledge with such velocity over the yielding snow - fields as the camel would be to perform his long marches through the desert without the broad elastic sole - pad on which he firmly paces the unsta- ble sands . The short legs and broad ...
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