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... Island by Naddodr in 861. - Gardar . - Floki of the Ravens .-- Ingolfr and Leif . - Ulfliot the Lawgiver . - The Althing . - Thingvalla . - Introduction of Christianity into the Island . - Fred- erick the Saxon and Thorwold the ...
... Island by Naddodr in 861. - Gardar . - Floki of the Ravens .-- Ingolfr and Leif . - Ulfliot the Lawgiver . - The Althing . - Thingvalla . - Introduction of Christianity into the Island . - Fred- erick the Saxon and Thorwold the ...
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... Island of Kaiak . — Shameful Conduct of Bering . — Ship- wreck on Bering Island .-- Bering's Death . - Return to Kamchatka . - Loss of Property . - Persecutions of the Siberian Authorities . - Frozen to Death at Tjumen .. CHAPTER XXIII ...
... Island of Kaiak . — Shameful Conduct of Bering . — Ship- wreck on Bering Island .-- Bering's Death . - Return to Kamchatka . - Loss of Property . - Persecutions of the Siberian Authorities . - Frozen to Death at Tjumen .. CHAPTER XXIII ...
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... Islands .-- South Georgia . - The Peruvian Stream . - Sea - birds . - The Gi- ant Petrel . - The Albatross . - The Penguin ... Island . - An Eruption of Mount Erebus . The Great Ice Barrier . - Providential Escape . - Dreadful Gale ...
... Islands .-- South Georgia . - The Peruvian Stream . - Sea - birds . - The Gi- ant Petrel . - The Albatross . - The Penguin ... Island . - An Eruption of Mount Erebus . The Great Ice Barrier . - Providential Escape . - Dreadful Gale ...
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... Island , and numerous lemmings , requiring vegetable food for their sub- sistence , inhabit the deserts of New ... islands situated far nearer to the pole . Thus , to cite but a few examples , the western shores of Nova Zembla , fronting ...
... Island , and numerous lemmings , requiring vegetable food for their sub- sistence , inhabit the deserts of New ... islands situated far nearer to the pole . Thus , to cite but a few examples , the western shores of Nova Zembla , fronting ...
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... islands , where their capture is hailed as a godsend . The intelligence that a shoal of ca'ing whales or grinds has ... island in 1817 , 623 were driven on shore , and served to pay one - half of the imported corn . But , on the other ...
... islands , where their capture is hailed as a godsend . The intelligence that a shoal of ca'ing whales or grinds has ... island in 1817 , 623 were driven on shore , and served to pay one - half of the imported corn . But , on the other ...
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Page 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Page 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
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...