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Page 258
... fresh , with gathering clouds ; while from N.W. to N. E. the horizon was obscured by the dense blue vapour which in these regions always indicates open wa- ter . Notwithstanding this sure token of the impos- sibility of proceeding much ...
... fresh , with gathering clouds ; while from N.W. to N. E. the horizon was obscured by the dense blue vapour which in these regions always indicates open wa- ter . Notwithstanding this sure token of the impos- sibility of proceeding much ...
Page 259
... fresh hummocks , piled up since the day before , a proof of the very dangerous state of the ice . We had to ferry ourselves across many fresh breaks , on pieces of ice which were sometimes too small to hold a sledge with its team of ...
... fresh hummocks , piled up since the day before , a proof of the very dangerous state of the ice . We had to ferry ourselves across many fresh breaks , on pieces of ice which were sometimes too small to hold a sledge with its team of ...
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... fresh supply of provisions , and the advanced state of the season , obliged me to think of returning to Nishne Kolymsk , from which we were 1060 wersts distant , and to relinquish the hope which I had entertained of surveying the Asi ...
... fresh supply of provisions , and the advanced state of the season , obliged me to think of returning to Nishne Kolymsk , from which we were 1060 wersts distant , and to relinquish the hope which I had entertained of surveying the Asi ...
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