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... Visiting the Fair . - Mammon Worship . - Treasure- hiding . " Tabak , or Braende . " . Affectionate Disposition of the Lapps .-- The Skogslapp . - The Fisherlapp ... 156 CHAPTER XIII . MATTHIAS ALEXANDER CASTRÉN . His Birthplace and ...
... Visiting the Fair . - Mammon Worship . - Treasure- hiding . " Tabak , or Braende . " . Affectionate Disposition of the Lapps .-- The Skogslapp . - The Fisherlapp ... 156 CHAPTER XIII . MATTHIAS ALEXANDER CASTRÉN . His Birthplace and ...
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... visited by man , the influence of the sea , particularly when fa- vored by warm currents , is found , to mitigate the severity of the winter , while at the same time it diminishes the warmth of summer . On the other hand , the large ...
... visited by man , the influence of the sea , particularly when fa- vored by warm currents , is found , to mitigate the severity of the winter , while at the same time it diminishes the warmth of summer . On the other hand , the large ...
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... visited Scandinavia , the people on the Dovrefjeld knew nothing about the migrations of the lemming , and his inquiries on the subject proved equally fruitless in Lapland and in Finland . At all events , it is a fortunate circumstance ...
... visited Scandinavia , the people on the Dovrefjeld knew nothing about the migrations of the lemming , and his inquiries on the subject proved equally fruitless in Lapland and in Finland . At all events , it is a fortunate circumstance ...
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... visiting his seal- nets . He found a seal entangled , and whilst kneeling down over it upon the ice to get it clear , he received a slap on the back - from his companion as he supposed ; but a second and heavier blow made him look ...
... visiting his seal- nets . He found a seal entangled , and whilst kneeling down over it upon the ice to get it clear , he received a slap on the back - from his companion as he supposed ; but a second and heavier blow made him look ...
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... visited this remarkable spot , says that the witches in Macbeth could not possibly have desired a more fitting place for the preparation of their infernal gruel than the mud - caldrons of Reykjahlid . а Among the hot or boiling springs ...
... visited this remarkable spot , says that the witches in Macbeth could not possibly have desired a more fitting place for the preparation of their infernal gruel than the mud - caldrons of Reykjahlid . а Among the hot or boiling springs ...
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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...