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Page 134
... island there is a fourth pillar - like rock of rather smaller size , so that we gave to it the name of Four Pillar Island . We found near our camp two old wooden sledge - runners and some reindeer sinews , showing that the place had ...
... island there is a fourth pillar - like rock of rather smaller size , so that we gave to it the name of Four Pillar Island . We found near our camp two old wooden sledge - runners and some reindeer sinews , showing that the place had ...
Page 135
FOUR PILLAR ISLAND . 135 and that , when the instrument was placed in a direc- tion perpendicular to the magnetic meridian , the needle made only 177 vibrations in the same time , which would give a dip of but 75 ° 30 ′ . Towards ...
FOUR PILLAR ISLAND . 135 and that , when the instrument was placed in a direc- tion perpendicular to the magnetic meridian , the needle made only 177 vibrations in the same time , which would give a dip of but 75 ° 30 ′ . Towards ...
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... island there are two long , high ridges , running parallel to each other in a N.N.W. and E.S.E. direction ... Pillar Island , has been already described . During our halt of the 23d , one of our drivers , in the boasting spirit common ...
... island there are two long , high ridges , running parallel to each other in a N.N.W. and E.S.E. direction ... Pillar Island , has been already described . During our halt of the 23d , one of our drivers , in the boasting spirit common ...
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rival of the English Traveller Captain Cochrane The | 87 |
CHAPTER V | 97 |
CHAPTER VI | 114 |
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Aldan animals Aniuj appeared arrived bank Bear Islands bears boat breeze Cape North Cape Schelagskoj coast cold consists continued Cossacks covered cross direction distance district dogs driftwood dymokuries east expedition fathoms feet fire fish formed fresh frozen greater Baranow Rock ground halted hills horses hummocks huts Indigirka inhabitants Irkuzk island Jakuti Jakuzk Jana journey Jukahiri kind Kirensk Kolyma Kosmin Kyber lakes land larch latitude Lena light longitude by reckoning Matiuschkin meridian altitude morning mountains mouth night Nishne Kolymsk noon northern obliged open water Ostrownoje ourselves party passed Pillar Island Polar Sea pood provision-sledges provisions quantity reached reindeer river roubles Russian schamans shelter shore Siberia side skin sledges snow sometimes soon spring Sredne Kolymsk stone-foxes stream Sucharnoje summer temperature tent thick tion train oil travelling tribes Tschuktschi Tundra valley weather wersts farther whole wind winter Wrangell