The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 страници |
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... warm current off Victoria Land , at a point below the 71st parallel , and flow- ing approximately from the direction of the pole ! * Nansen , another Norwegian , in the Arctic Polar Sea , had been astonished to find that the water at a ...
... warm current off Victoria Land , at a point below the 71st parallel , and flow- ing approximately from the direction of the pole ! * Nansen , another Norwegian , in the Arctic Polar Sea , had been astonished to find that the water at a ...
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... warm earth beneath it which , while it could not much affect the general climate , when some three miles of very chilly water and several feet of sub- stantial ice lay between , did serve as a provision of nature to prevent the northern ...
... warm earth beneath it which , while it could not much affect the general climate , when some three miles of very chilly water and several feet of sub- stantial ice lay between , did serve as a provision of nature to prevent the northern ...
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... warm country at the South Pole ap- pealed as little to the seaman as to the scientist . The sailors whom I had subsidized most liberally regarded me with suspicion and unconsciously touched their foreheads at the suggestion , while the ...
... warm country at the South Pole ap- pealed as little to the seaman as to the scientist . The sailors whom I had subsidized most liberally regarded me with suspicion and unconsciously touched their foreheads at the suggestion , while the ...
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... warm one . " " What warmed it ? 99 " The oblation of the earth , which brings the sur- face there sufficiently near the great central heat to counteract the otherwise low temperature resulting from the oblique angle of the direct solar ...
... warm one . " " What warmed it ? 99 " The oblation of the earth , which brings the sur- face there sufficiently near the great central heat to counteract the otherwise low temperature resulting from the oblique angle of the direct solar ...
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... warm habitable country about the earth's axis . Whoever finds it will gain immortality , and perhaps wealth beyond his wildest dreams . " I had warmed to this explanation with something of the old - time enthusiasm , and I could see ...
... warm habitable country about the earth's axis . Whoever finds it will gain immortality , and perhaps wealth beyond his wildest dreams . " I had warmed to this explanation with something of the old - time enthusiasm , and I could see ...
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ahead ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE altogether Antarctic Antarctic Circle ascended balloon barrier beautiful believe berg Bill Billowcrest boat Bottle Bay brown cows cabin Cape Horn Captain Biffer Chase Chauncey Gale chord cold comfort dark deck Doolan dream drift EAST SIXTEENTH ST Edith Gale eyes face feet Ferratoni Gale's gwine hand harbor heah ice-wall J. F. TAYLOR Johnnie land Larkins laughed looked lozenges miles Miss Edith Miss Gale morning never Nicholas Nicholas Chase Nick night once perhaps Prince Princess river rope sail sailors seemed ship silent snow South Pole southward story Sturritt tablets TAYLOR & COMPANY telephone tell things thought tide told turned uncle vessel vibrations Victoria Land Violet Fields voice waited wall warm warm river what's wheah wind words York
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Страница 313 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Страница 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Страница 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.