Yachting in the Arctic SeasChatto and Windus, 1876 - 387 pagina's Narrative of author's voyage on the Diana in 1869 to Barents Sea, Novaya Zemlya and Svalbard, with historical notes on previous voyages to these regions. |
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anchor anchorage animal Arctic ashore August Barentz bear beast blubber boat bull Cape Nassau carcases cliffs coal coast of Novaya crew crow's-nest dead deck deer Diana drifting early east coast edge exploration Fahr fast-ice fathoms feet floating four Franz Josef Land gale Gillis Land glacier Goose Gulf Stream Hammerfest harbour harpoon head heavy ice Hinlopen Straits hunt Ice Fjord Ice Haven icebergs Jugorsky Kara Gate Kara Sea Kara Straits killed Kolguev latitude Matoschkin Schar miles night north-east north-west Norway Norwegian Novaya Zemlya numbers open water pack Pakhtusof Polar reached reindeer rocks round Russian sailed Samoyedes seal season seen ship shoot shore shot side sight skin skipper sloops snow Spitzbergen sport steamed summer temperature thick tion tusks vessel voyage walrus walrus-hunters Waygat Waygat Island weather west coast whale wind winter yacht yards
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Pagina 199 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea...
Pagina 244 - ... is always filled with these fragments of all sizes and shapes, and many of them I have observed carrying large quantities of clay and stones imbedded in them. " This great glacier is in three divisions. The northern and southern divisions are each quite smooth and glassy, but the piece in the centre is broken up and rough, and jagged to a degree that is perfectly indescribable ; at a little distance it exactly resembles a great forest of pine trees thickly covered with snow. " This part of the...
Pagina 248 - They were taken out in one of the whalers, and a hut was erected for their winter quarters ; but when the fleet was about to depart, and they saw the awful gloomy hills, already white with the early snows, and felt the howling gales of north-east wind, their hearts utterly failed them, and they entreated the captain who had charge of them to take them back to London and let them be hanged, in pursuance of their original sentence, rather than leave them to perish in such a horrible country ! The captain...
Pagina 49 - ... flourishing, and then they are all down. On, on, goes the boat as hard as ever we can pull the oars ; up come the Sea-horses again, pretty close this time, and before they can draw breath the boat rushes into the midst of them : whish ! goes the harpoon : birr ! goes the line over the gunwale : and a luckless junger...
Pagina 135 - Samoeds idols, which were in number above 300, the worst and the most unartificiall worke that ever I saw : the eyes and mouthes of sundrie of them were bloodie, they had the shape of men, women, and children, very grosly wrought, and that which they had made for other parts, was also sprinkled with blood.
Pagina 52 - Christian called to me not to shoot, as she had a 'junger' with her. Although I did not understand his object, I reserved my fire, and upon looking closely at the walrus when she came up to breathe, I then perceived that she held a very young calf under her right arm, and I saw that he wanted to harpoon it ; but whenever he poised the weapon to throw, the old cow seemed to watch the direction of it, and interposed her own body, and she seemed to receive with pleasure several harpoons which were intended...
Pagina 51 - I fancy had fallen next him, he tore him nearly into two halves with his tusks. The rest of the men saved themselves by clambering on to the ice until the other boat came to their assistance. Upon another occasion, I made the acquaintance of the skyppar of a sloop, who had been seized by a bereaved...
Pagina 317 - Walruses were then at their mercy, and they slew, and stabbed, and slaughtered, and butchered, and murdered until most of their lances were rendered useless, and themselves were drenched with blood and exhausted with fatigue. They went on board their vessels, ground their lances, and had their dinners, and then returned to their sanguinary work; nor did they cry 'Hold, enough!
Pagina 243 - ... are constantly becoming detached from this icy precipice, and tumble into the sea with a terrific roar and splash, and of course render it highly dangerous to go near the base in a boat. The surrounding sea is always filled with these fragments of all sizes and shapes, and many of them I have...