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... frequently grow as closely as they can stand . It may easily be supposed that the boundary - line which separates the tun- dri from the forest zone is both indistinct and irregular . In some parts where the cold sea - winds have a wider ...
... frequently grow as closely as they can stand . It may easily be supposed that the boundary - line which separates the tun- dri from the forest zone is both indistinct and irregular . In some parts where the cold sea - winds have a wider ...
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... frequently remain hanging on the bushes until the snow melts in the following June , and are then a considerable resource to the flocks of water - fowl migrating to their northern breeding - places , or to the bear awakening from his ...
... frequently remain hanging on the bushes until the snow melts in the following June , and are then a considerable resource to the flocks of water - fowl migrating to their northern breeding - places , or to the bear awakening from his ...
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... frequently and how vainly they have striven against the wind , until finally the last remnants of arboreal vegetation , vanquished by the blasts of winter , seek refuge under a carpet of lichens and mosses , from which their annual ...
... frequently and how vainly they have striven against the wind , until finally the last remnants of arboreal vegetation , vanquished by the blasts of winter , seek refuge under a carpet of lichens and mosses , from which their annual ...
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... frequently . glaciers descend down to the verge of the sea . But even in the highest north- ern latitudes , no land has yet been found covered as far as the water's edge with eternal snow , or where winter has entirely subdued the ...
... frequently . glaciers descend down to the verge of the sea . But even in the highest north- ern latitudes , no land has yet been found covered as far as the water's edge with eternal snow , or where winter has entirely subdued the ...
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... frequently dims their brilliancy in the high latitudes , when suddenly a broad and clear bow of light spans the ... frequent , and less vivid ; and finally the gloom of winter once more descends upon the northern desert . 3 CHAPTER II ...
... frequently dims their brilliancy in the high latitudes , when suddenly a broad and clear bow of light spans the ... frequent , and less vivid ; and finally the gloom of winter once more descends upon the northern desert . 3 CHAPTER II ...
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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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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...