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... less wastes . The latter , comprising the islands within the Arctic Circle , form a belt , more or less broad , bounded by the continental shores of the North Polar seas , and gradually merging toward the south into the forest - region ...
... less wastes . The latter , comprising the islands within the Arctic Circle , form a belt , more or less broad , bounded by the continental shores of the North Polar seas , and gradually merging toward the south into the forest - region ...
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... less condensed than the nearly impalpable powder of winter , Kane justly observes that no " eider - down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping - dress of winter about the feeble plant - life of the Arc ...
... less condensed than the nearly impalpable powder of winter , Kane justly observes that no " eider - down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping - dress of winter about the feeble plant - life of the Arc ...
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... less dangerous and blood - thirsty than the large felidæ of the torrid zone . The comparatively small number of animals living in the Arctic forests corresponds with the monotony of their vegetation . Here we should seek in vain for ...
... less dangerous and blood - thirsty than the large felidæ of the torrid zone . The comparatively small number of animals living in the Arctic forests corresponds with the monotony of their vegetation . Here we should seek in vain for ...
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... less land in the Arctic zone than at present , nor can any possible combination of water and dry land be imagined sufficient to account for the growth of laurels in Green- land or of plantains in Spitzbergen . Dr. Oswald Heer is ...
... less land in the Arctic zone than at present , nor can any possible combination of water and dry land be imagined sufficient to account for the growth of laurels in Green- land or of plantains in Spitzbergen . Dr. Oswald Heer is ...
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... less frequent , and less vivid ; and finally the gloom of winter once more descends upon the northern desert . 3 CHAPTER II . ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The THE ARCTIC LANDS . 33.
... less frequent , and less vivid ; and finally the gloom of winter once more descends upon the northern desert . 3 CHAPTER II . ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS . The THE ARCTIC LANDS . 33.
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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...