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... THE TROPICAL WORLD . " WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY- THREE ILLUSTRATIONS . NEW YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE . 1 869 . Entered , according to Act of Congress , in the THE POLAR WORLD :
... THE TROPICAL WORLD . " WITH ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY- THREE ILLUSTRATIONS . NEW YORK : HARPER & BROTHERS , PUBLISHERS , FRANKLIN SQUARE . 1 869 . Entered , according to Act of Congress , in the THE POLAR WORLD :
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... hundred square miles of fruitful territory on the south- western frontiers of his vast empire would be of greater value to the Czar than that of those boundless wastes , which are tenanted only by a few wretched pastoral tribes , or ...
... hundred square miles of fruitful territory on the south- western frontiers of his vast empire would be of greater value to the Czar than that of those boundless wastes , which are tenanted only by a few wretched pastoral tribes , or ...
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... his winter sleep . Another distinctive character of the forests of the high latitudes. VERGE OF FOREST REGION . forms a vast circle , embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands. 24 THE POLAR WORLD . Verge of Forest Region.
... his winter sleep . Another distinctive character of the forests of the high latitudes. VERGE OF FOREST REGION . forms a vast circle , embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands. 24 THE POLAR WORLD . Verge of Forest Region.
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... vast circle , embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands of years , round another star , and that we are constantly entering new regions of space untrav- · AURORA SEEN IN NORWAY . -- AURORA SEEN IN. 30 THE POLAR WORLD . Arctic Moonlight.
... vast circle , embracing perhaps hundreds of thousands of years , round another star , and that we are constantly entering new regions of space untrav- · AURORA SEEN IN NORWAY . -- AURORA SEEN IN. 30 THE POLAR WORLD . Arctic Moonlight.
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... 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 the honor of these barbarians be it mentioned , they treat their invaluable ...
... 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 the honor of these barbarians be it mentioned , they treat their invaluable ...
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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...