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Page 92
... covered surface ; the sky became of a whitish colour , and the cold increased on the 3d and 4th of January to -550 , and on the 5th the ther- mometer stood for twenty four hours at -570 . Breathing became difficult , and the panes of ...
... covered surface ; the sky became of a whitish colour , and the cold increased on the 3d and 4th of January to -550 , and on the 5th the ther- mometer stood for twenty four hours at -570 . Breathing became difficult , and the panes of ...
Page 104
... covered with a smooth , solid surface of snow , over which the ice- covered runners * of our sledges glided with so much . ease , that the dogs moved on very rapidly without being urged . We drove at a distance of from 50 to 300 fathoms ...
... covered with a smooth , solid surface of snow , over which the ice- covered runners * of our sledges glided with so much . ease , that the dogs moved on very rapidly without being urged . We drove at a distance of from 50 to 300 fathoms ...
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... covered in many places with green mud . When we had gone eigh- teen wersts we encountered two bears , which we chased , not only with no advantage , but with much positive damage , besides loss of time . We killed one of them , it is ...
... covered in many places with green mud . When we had gone eigh- teen wersts we encountered two bears , which we chased , not only with no advantage , but with much positive damage , besides loss of time . We killed one of them , it is ...
Contents
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