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... Stream . - Sea - birds . - The Gi- ant Petrel . - The Albatross . - The Penguin . - The Austral Whale . - The Hunchback . - The Fin - back . -The Grampus . - Battle with a Whale . - The Sea - elephant . - The Southern Sea - bear . - The ...
... Stream . - Sea - birds . - The Gi- ant Petrel . - The Albatross . - The Penguin . - The Austral Whale . - The Hunchback . - The Fin - back . -The Grampus . - Battle with a Whale . - The Sea - elephant . - The Southern Sea - bear . - The ...
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... streams , some of which ( such as the Mackenzie , the Yukon , the Lena , the Yenisei , and the Obi ) rank among the giant rivers of the earth , form , along with the islands within or near the Arctic circle , the vast region over which ...
... streams , some of which ( such as the Mackenzie , the Yukon , the Lena , the Yenisei , and the Obi ) rank among the giant rivers of the earth , form , along with the islands within or near the Arctic circle , the vast region over which ...
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... stream upward , for the purpose of depositing their spawn in the tranquil sweet wa- ters of the stream or lake . About this time also the reindeer leaves the forests to feed on the herbs and lichens of the tundra , and to seek along the ...
... stream upward , for the purpose of depositing their spawn in the tranquil sweet wa- ters of the stream or lake . About this time also the reindeer leaves the forests to feed on the herbs and lichens of the tundra , and to seek along the ...
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... streams of light ascending to the zenith . Sometimes these flashes proceed from the bow of light alone ; at others they simultaneously shoot forth from many opposite parts of the horizon , and form a vast sea of fire whose brilliant ...
... streams of light ascending to the zenith . Sometimes these flashes proceed from the bow of light alone ; at others they simultaneously shoot forth from many opposite parts of the horizon , and form a vast sea of fire whose brilliant ...
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... streams into the ocean , so many of the gla- ciers or ice - rivers of the Arctic zone , descending to the water - edge , are slowly but constantly forcing them- selves farther and farther into the sea . In the summer season , when the ...
... streams into the ocean , so many of the gla- ciers or ice - rivers of the Arctic zone , descending to the water - edge , are slowly but constantly forcing them- selves farther and farther into the sea . In the summer season , when the ...
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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 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...