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... remained rocking to and fro on its summit until its equilibrium was restored ; but his companion , falling between the masses , would most likely have been crushed to pieces if the current caused by their motion had not swept him within ...
... remained rocking to and fro on its summit until its equilibrium was restored ; but his companion , falling between the masses , would most likely have been crushed to pieces if the current caused by their motion had not swept him within ...
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... remained of this splendid mass of congelation not a fragment that rose fifty feet above the water . * One of the most remarkable phenomena of the Polar Sea is the ice - blink , or reflection of the ice against the sky . A stripe of ...
... remained of this splendid mass of congelation not a fragment that rose fifty feet above the water . * One of the most remarkable phenomena of the Polar Sea is the ice - blink , or reflection of the ice against the sky . A stripe of ...
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... remained , except in the iron cases , which being round , with conical ends , defied both claws and teeth . They had rolled and pawed them in every direction , tossing them about like footballs , although over eighty pounds in weight ...
... remained , except in the iron cases , which being round , with conical ends , defied both claws and teeth . They had rolled and pawed them in every direction , tossing them about like footballs , although over eighty pounds in weight ...
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... remained undisturbed by the phleg matic inhabitants , are now caught in large numbers for the British market . A small river bearing the significant name of Laxaa , or Salmon River , has been rented for the trifling sum of £ 100 a year ...
... remained undisturbed by the phleg matic inhabitants , are now caught in large numbers for the British market . A small river bearing the significant name of Laxaa , or Salmon River , has been rented for the trifling sum of £ 100 a year ...
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... remained several years , until the triumph of his own faction allowed him to return to his family estate at Reikholt , where he was murdered on a dark September night in the year 1241. Thus perished the most remarkable man Iceland ever ...
... remained several years , until the triumph of his own faction allowed him to return to his family estate at Reikholt , where he was murdered on a dark September night in the year 1241. Thus perished the most remarkable man Iceland ever ...
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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...