The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of Previous Journeys Along the North Coast of the Old WorldMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 756 pages |
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abundant anchored animal appears Arctic Asia August Barents beach Behring Island Behring's Straits birds black guillemots boat bones Brünnich's guillemots Cape Chelyuskin Captain Chukches coast of Novaya collected consisted crew drift-ice Dutch east Eskimo European exceedingly excursion expedition farther fish formed frozen glaucous gull Greenland harbour hunters hunting inhabitants Japan Japanese journey July Kara Sea killed kilometres Kolyma land large number Lena mammoth Matotschkin metres mountain mouth natives navigation neighbourhood Nordquist north coast north-east Norway Novaya Zemlya Onkilon Palander partly peninsula pieces Polar bear Polar Sea Port Clarence Port Dickson probably reached regions reindeer river round Russian sailed Samoyeds seal seen shore Siberia sledges snow Sound species Spitzbergen steamer stones summer Swedish temperature tent travelled tusks Vaygats Island Vega vessel visited voyage walrus walrus-hunters whale White Sea wind winter Wrangel Yakutsk Yalmal Yenisej Yugor Schar
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Page 310 - ... the possibility of its originating in the retention and decomposition of portions of the placenta. Although Harvey and other writers showed that they were more or less familiar with it, and even made most creditable observations on its etiology, it was not until the latter half of the last century that it came prominently into notice. At that time the...
Page 50 - Court then lay) presently upon the newes thereof, the Courtiers came running out, and the common people flockt together, standing very thicke upon the shoare : the privie Counsel, they lookt out at the windowes of the Court, and the rest ranne up to the toppes of the towers...
Page 41 - He was a very wealthy man in those possessions in which their wealth consists, that is in wild deer. He had, at the time he came to the king, six hundred unsold tame deer. These deer they call reindeer...
Page 41 - Terfinna land was all waste, except where hunters, fishers, or fowlers had taken up their quarters. The Beormas told him many particulars both of their own land, and of the other lands lying around them; but he knew not what was true, because he did not see it himself; it seemed to him that the Fins and the Beormas spoke nearly one language.
Page 50 - And being come neere to Greenewich (where the court then lay) presently upon the newes thereof the courtiers came running out and the common people flockt together, standing very thicke upon the shoare : the privie counsel they lookt out at the windowes of the court, and the rest ran up to the toppes of the towers...
Page 204 - ... in a Greenland ship that summer) told him, that their ship went not out to fish that summer, but only to take in the lading of the whole fleet, to bring it to an early market, But, said he, before the fleet had caught fish enough to lade us, we, by order of the Greenland Company, sailed unto the north pole and came back again.
Page 168 - And then, at the sign of the Christopher, he and his friends banqueted, and made me and them that were in the company great cheer; and for very joy that he had to see the towardness of our intended discovery he entered into the dance himself, amongst the rest of the young and lusty company — which being ended, he and his friends departed, most gently commending us to the governance of Almighty God.
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Page 455 - Thus finally was reached the goal towards which so many nations had struggled, all along from the time when Sir Hugh Willoughby, with the firing of salutes from cannon and with hurrahs from the festive-clad seamen, in the presence of an innumerable crowd of jubilant men certain of success, ushered in the long series of North-East voyages.
Page 40 - ... three days: he was as far north as the whale-hunters go at the farthest. Then he proceeded in his course due north, as far as he could sail within another three days; then the land there inclined due east, or the sea into the land, he knew not which, but he knew that he there waited for a west wind, or a little north, and sailed thence eastward along that land as far as he could sail in four days; then he...