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... extremely well adapted for walking over the snow or on a swampy ground . The front hoofs , which are capable of great lateral expansion , curve upward , while the two secondary ones behind ( which are but slightly developed in the ...
... extremely well adapted for walking over the snow or on a swampy ground . The front hoofs , which are capable of great lateral expansion , curve upward , while the two secondary ones behind ( which are but slightly developed in the ...
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... extremely soft , but very dear . Thus the cocoa - nut palm , the tree of a hundred uses , hardly renders a greater variety of services to the islanders of the Indian Ocean than the rein- deer to the Laplander or the Samojede ; and , to ...
... extremely soft , but very dear . Thus the cocoa - nut palm , the tree of a hundred uses , hardly renders a greater variety of services to the islanders of the Indian Ocean than the rein- deer to the Laplander or the Samojede ; and , to ...
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... extremely shy and watchful , and finds an easy retreat in the swamp or the forest . The only time of the year when it can be easily chased is in the spring , when the softened snow gets covered during the night with a thin crust of ice ...
... extremely shy and watchful , and finds an easy retreat in the swamp or the forest . The only time of the year when it can be easily chased is in the spring , when the softened snow gets covered during the night with a thin crust of ice ...
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... extremely unpleasant . At other times the sun sweeps two or three times round the pole without being for a moment obscured by a cloud , and then the transparency of the air is such that objects the most remote may be seen perfectly ...
... extremely unpleasant . At other times the sun sweeps two or three times round the pole without being for a moment obscured by a cloud , and then the transparency of the air is such that objects the most remote may be seen perfectly ...
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Georg Hartwig. ill - fashioned flaps of leather . Its movements on land are extremely slow and awkward , resembling those of a huge caterpillar , but in the water it has all the activity of the seals , or even surpasses them in speed ...
Georg Hartwig. ill - fashioned flaps of leather . Its movements on land are extremely slow and awkward , resembling those of a huge caterpillar , but in the water it has all the activity of the seals , or even surpasses them in speed ...
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Aleuts animal Antarctic appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Captain Castrén chief climate coast cold Cossacks covered distance dogs Esquimaux expedition farther feet fish forests frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland Icelandic horses Indians inhabitants island Jakut Jakutsk Jenissei journey Kamchatka lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains navigators night northern Norwegian Nova Zembla Obdorsk obliged ocean once Ostiaks party Polar Sea pole reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seldom ship shores Siberia Sir James Ross skins sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot stones storm strait stream summer Tchuktchi temperature tent thick tion traveller trees tribes tundra vast vegetation versts vessels voyage walrus whale whole wild wind winter Yermak
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