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... carrying the eye along a broad and winding valley , up steps of ice of giant height , until at length the slope loses itself in the unknown ice - desert beyond . But grand above all is the magnificent Humboldt glacier , which ...
... carrying the eye along a broad and winding valley , up steps of ice of giant height , until at length the slope loses itself in the unknown ice - desert beyond . But grand above all is the magnificent Humboldt glacier , which ...
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... carried along , in the depth of winter , by the pack - ice in Lancaster Sound and Baffin's Bay . A berg impelled by a strong under - current rips open an ice - field as if it were a thin sheet of glass ; and in channels , or on coasts ...
... carried along , in the depth of winter , by the pack - ice in Lancaster Sound and Baffin's Bay . A berg impelled by a strong under - current rips open an ice - field as if it were a thin sheet of glass ; and in channels , or on coasts ...
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... carry death and destruction into their ranks . The seas of Novaja Zemlya , Spitzbergen , and Greenland are the domain of the narwhal , or sea - unicorn , a cetacean quite as strange , but not so fabulous as the terrestrial animal which ...
... carry death and destruction into their ranks . The seas of Novaja Zemlya , Spitzbergen , and Greenland are the domain of the narwhal , or sea - unicorn , a cetacean quite as strange , but not so fabulous as the terrestrial animal which ...
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... carried away with him , he returned . The noose , with another piece of kreng , being then replaced , he pushed the rope aside , and again walked tri- umphantly off with the kreng . A third time the noose was laid , and this time the ...
... carried away with him , he returned . The noose , with another piece of kreng , being then replaced , he pushed the rope aside , and again walked tri- umphantly off with the kreng . A third time the noose was laid , and this time the ...
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... carried off by all of them . The wool is not sheared off , but torn from the animal's back , and woven by the peasantry , during the long winter evenings , into a kind of coarse cloth , or knit into gloves and stockings , which form one ...
... carried off by all of them . The wool is not sheared off , but torn from the animal's back , and woven by the peasantry , during the long winter evenings , into a kind of coarse cloth , or knit into gloves and stockings , which form one ...
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Page 428 - Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi.
Page 393 - The head of the bay, as well as two places on each side, was terminated by perpendicular ice-cliffs of considerable height. Pieces were continually breaking off, and floating out to sea ; and a great fall happened while we were in the bay, which made a noise like cannon. The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their...