Man and nature: the tropics and the poles1849 |
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... winter of the tropical regions , ) the rank and teeming soil of Ashantee gives birth , in rich abundance , to the noblest forms and brightest colours of vegetable life . Nor are its animals less various or numerous . Among them are the ...
... winter of the tropical regions , ) the rank and teeming soil of Ashantee gives birth , in rich abundance , to the noblest forms and brightest colours of vegetable life . Nor are its animals less various or numerous . Among them are the ...
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... winter- time hill and dale , lake and plain . This animal possesses astonishing power of endurance , combined with great speed , so that one hundred and fifty miles is often journeyed in less than twenty hours . During the winter - time ...
... winter- time hill and dale , lake and plain . This animal possesses astonishing power of endurance , combined with great speed , so that one hundred and fifty miles is often journeyed in less than twenty hours . During the winter - time ...
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... winter starves the reindeer , and the Laplanders perish by famine . If the cold sets in with great rains , which the frost immediately congeals , the coating of ice incrusts the earth before the snow falls , and the lichen on which the ...
... winter starves the reindeer , and the Laplanders perish by famine . If the cold sets in with great rains , which the frost immediately congeals , the coating of ice incrusts the earth before the snow falls , and the lichen on which the ...
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... winter drives away the cold , so in the summer it checks the perspi- ration of the feet , and preserves them from being injured by the stones , against which their untanned shoes are but a poor defence . In this country the Aurora ...
... winter drives away the cold , so in the summer it checks the perspi- ration of the feet , and preserves them from being injured by the stones , against which their untanned shoes are but a poor defence . In this country the Aurora ...
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... winter of 1829 was unusually mild in that part of the world , and the sea being therefore comparatively free from ice , the Victory reached the bottom of the inlet before the winter set in , without any great difficulty . By the 8th of ...
... winter of 1829 was unusually mild in that part of the world , and the sea being therefore comparatively free from ice , the Victory reached the bottom of the inlet before the winter set in , without any great difficulty . By the 8th of ...
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abound animals appear arctic ASHANTEE CHIEF beast beneath bird-nester birds boats body BOOTHIA FELIX buffalo Captain Harris Captain Ross carcase catching Catlin China Chinese civilized climate coast colour comfort Confucius coracle courage covered deer dogs dressed duction earth eggs eider-duck elephant engraving Esquimaux European feet forests frozen Fury Beach gannet grass Greenland habits hair Hebrides herd Hindoo hundred Indian inhabited jungle king land Laplander length lichen living lodges MANDAN INDIANS Mandans manner miles monante Moselekatse nation natives nests night North America northern Norway once parsee passed perish Polar Sea poor pounds weight reach regions reindeer rivers robes rock rope round sachems sail sea-fowl seemed ship shore side Sir Felix Booth skin sledges snow soon spear spot stick summer thousand tiger Tiriksiu trees tribe vessel Victory village visited voyage wigwam wild winter wolf wolves wood