The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 páginas |
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Página 36
... reach the ice barrier at no great distance from the habitable circle beyond . It even might be possible , I said , to follow this current directly to the interior continent , though this I considered doubtful , believ- ing rather that ...
... reach the ice barrier at no great distance from the habitable circle beyond . It even might be possible , I said , to follow this current directly to the interior continent , though this I considered doubtful , believ- ing rather that ...
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... reach the Ant- arctics easily by the beginning of the day or sum- mer season , and might , I believe , hope to reach a desirable position at or near the ice - barrier by the beginning of the winter night . During this we would make ...
... reach the Ant- arctics easily by the beginning of the day or sum- mer season , and might , I believe , hope to reach a desirable position at or near the ice - barrier by the beginning of the winter night . During this we would make ...
Página 96
... reach our destination by following the warm cur- rent already reported by Borchgrevink . I was rather surprised at Captain Biffer's hearty approval of this outline . I believe now he was of the opinion that a few weeks along the edge of ...
... reach our destination by following the warm cur- rent already reported by Borchgrevink . I was rather surprised at Captain Biffer's hearty approval of this outline . I believe now he was of the opinion that a few weeks along the edge of ...
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... reach . It is nearly always of this general charac- ter , and is frequently crossed by blue horizontal lines , showing its stratified formation from year to year . " Before I had finished speaking the Captain was again studying the ...
... reach . It is nearly always of this general charac- ter , and is frequently crossed by blue horizontal lines , showing its stratified formation from year to year . " Before I had finished speaking the Captain was again studying the ...
Página 118
... , but they did not reach the Bil- lowcrest . Then came that terror of all polar expedi- tions - the ice pressure - the meeting and closing in of enormous ice - fields moving irresistibly in oppo- site 118 THE GREAT WHITE WAY .
... , but they did not reach the Bil- lowcrest . Then came that terror of all polar expedi- tions - the ice pressure - the meeting and closing in of enormous ice - fields moving irresistibly in oppo- site 118 THE GREAT WHITE WAY .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.