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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... Stone Lamp . • • 141. Fighting for Food . 142. Through the Snow . 143. Waiting by a Seal - hole . 144. Looking for Seals .. 146. Seal - hole and Igloo . 147. Waiting for a Blow . . 148. Dog and Seal ... 145. Innuit Strategy to Capture a ...
... Stone Lamp . • • 141. Fighting for Food . 142. Through the Snow . 143. Waiting by a Seal - hole . 144. Looking for Seals .. 146. Seal - hole and Igloo . 147. Waiting for a Blow . . 148. Dog and Seal ... 145. Innuit Strategy to Capture a ...
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... stones to make room for a new repast . It will , indeed , kill in one night six or eight reindeer , but it contents itself with sucking their blood , as the weasel does with fowls , and eats no more at one meal than any other ...
... stones to make room for a new repast . It will , indeed , kill in one night six or eight reindeer , but it contents itself with sucking their blood , as the weasel does with fowls , and eats no more at one meal than any other ...
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... stones or in the moss . Its long and thick hair is of a tawny color , and prettily marked with black spots . The migrations of the lemming have been grossly exaggerated by Olaus Magnus and Pontoppidan , to whom the natural history of ...
... stones or in the moss . Its long and thick hair is of a tawny color , and prettily marked with black spots . The migrations of the lemming have been grossly exaggerated by Olaus Magnus and Pontoppidan , to whom the natural history of ...
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... stones , and the entrance is generally so narrow as merely to allow the parent birds to pass . The remarkably dense win- ter plumage of the snow - bunting especially qualifies it for a northern residence , and when in captivity it will ...
... stones , and the entrance is generally so narrow as merely to allow the parent birds to pass . The remarkably dense win- ter plumage of the snow - bunting especially qualifies it for a northern residence , and when in captivity it will ...
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... stone or fill every hollow or crevice of the rocky ground . A dead seal or fish thrown into the sea is soon converted into a skeleton by the myriads of small crustaceans which infest these northern waters , and , like the ants in the ...
... stone or fill every hollow or crevice of the rocky ground . A dead seal or fish thrown into the sea is soon converted into a skeleton by the myriads of small crustaceans which infest these northern waters , and , like the ants in the ...
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