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Common terms and phrasesanimals appeared Arctic Baffin Bay bear berg boat broken brought cabin Cape Alexander Cape Farewell Cape York carried CHAPTEE cliffs close cloud cold cook course danger dark deck Dodge dogs drifting Eensselaer Harbour Esquimaux Etah face feet floes freezing frozen further gale give glacier Greenland Grinnell Land hard hills Humboldt Glacier hummocks hundred hunt hunter ice-fields ice-tables icebergs Island Jensen journey Kalutunah Kennedy Channel Knorr land length light lofty looked McCormick Melville Bay miles morning mountains night Northumberland Island o'clock observed once Oosisoak open water pack party passed Peter Polar Port Foulke quarter reached reindeer rocks sailors sails schooner scurvy seal-skin seemed shelter ship's shore side sledge slope Smith's Sound snow Sonntag soon temperature tion to-day travelling Upernavik valley venison vessel walrus wind winter zero Popular passagesPage 276 - pleasures are like poppies spread ; You seize the flower—its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-fall in the river— A moment white, then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flits ere you can point the Page 46 - Ancient Mariner ":— " The ice was here, The ice was there, The ice was all around ; It creaked and growled. And roared and howled Like demons in a Page 23 - air stirring. The sun hangs close upon the northern horizon; the fog has broken up into light clouds; the icebergs lie thick about us; the dark headlands stand boldly out against the sky; and the clouds and sea and bergs and mountains are bathed in an atmosphere of crimson and gold and purple most singularly Page 127 - There is a multitude of facts which would seem to necessitate the belief that the substance of glaciers enjoys a kind of ductility, which permits it to mould itself to the locality which it occupies, to grow thin, to swell and to narrow itself like a soft paste. Page 25 - valleys separating the high icy hills of their upper surface. From other bergs large pieces were now and then detached,—plunging down into the water with deafening noise, while the slow moving swell of the ocean resounded through their broken archways. I had been watching this scene for hours, lost in reverie and forgetfulness, when I was brought Page 78 - schooner, and it appeared as if her destiny was sealed. She groaned like a conscious thing in pain, and writhed and twisted as if to escape her adversary, trembling in every timber from truck to kelson. Her sides seemed to be giving way. Her deck timbers were bowed up, and the Page 313 - above the level of the sea. The view which I had from this elevation furnished a solution of the cause of my progress being arrested on the previous day. The ice was everywhere in the same condition as in the mouth of the bay, across which I had endeavoured to pass. A broad crack, starting from the middle of Page 319 - Strait to America, it hugs the American shore, fills the narrow channels which drain the Polar waters into Baffin Bay through the Parry Archipelago, crosses thence to Greenland, from Greenland to Spitzbergen, and from Spitzbergen to Nova Zembla,— thus investing the Pole in an uninterrupted land-clinging belt of ice, more or less broken Page 392 - these are The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy Page 279 - to imagine any kind of labour more disheartening, or which would sooner sap the energies of both men and animals. The strength gave way gradually; and when, as often happened, after a long and hard day's work, we could look back from an eminence and almost fire a rifle-ball into our last snow-hut, it was truly discouraging. References to this bookFrom Google ScholarNew dates of musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus) remains from northwest ...Ole Bennike, Claus Andreasen - 2005 - Polar Record Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897Ronald Savitt, Cornelia Lüdecke - 2007 - Polar Record Aboriginal-european Relations During The Great Age Of North Polar ...Lyle Dick - 2002 - Polar Geography Northern Ellesmere Island: A Study In The History Of Geographical ...JR LOTZ - 1962 - The Canadian Geographer References from web pagesFree Books > History > Australia & Oceania > Polar Regions > The ... NEW PUBLICATIONS.; THE POLAR EXPEDITION OF DR. HAYES. Dr. Isaac Hayes North Pole Expedition 1860-61 University of Delaware: TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: Arctic ... A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Bibliography NORTHERN ELLESMERE ISLAND: A STUDY IN THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL ... JSTOR: Biographical Sketch of Doctor Isaac I. Hayes Raising Kane: Footnotes bibliographie Internet Archive Search: collection:biodiversity AND subject ... Bibliographic information
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