Works, Volumes 91-92Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 148
... colour which , with the rapidity of lightning , traversed the sky in sinuous lines from south to north , shading off from colour to colour . This spectacle , surpassing all description , aroused in us the greatest wonder and saved us ...
... colour which , with the rapidity of lightning , traversed the sky in sinuous lines from south to north , shading off from colour to colour . This spectacle , surpassing all description , aroused in us the greatest wonder and saved us ...
Page 190
... colour of the body is a little lighter than in the case of negroes , the hair is curly , the nose broad and for the most part hooked like a parrot's , the mouth large and the lips thick . Some of them have the little finger of the left ...
... colour of the body is a little lighter than in the case of negroes , the hair is curly , the nose broad and for the most part hooked like a parrot's , the mouth large and the lips thick . Some of them have the little finger of the left ...
Page 275
... colour in a very short time . The berries are about the size of our cherries and yellowish red in colour . The kind hostess also showed him how they glue their tissues together . The paste is a sort of starch made of arrowroot , which ...
... colour in a very short time . The berries are about the size of our cherries and yellowish red in colour . The kind hostess also showed him how they glue their tissues together . The paste is a sort of starch made of arrowroot , which ...
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Lyeskov Visokoi and Zavodovski Islands | 3 |
Wandering and Sooty Albatrosses | 9 |
Banksia Blue Tit Honeyeater and Waratah | 17 |
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a.m. the wind albatrosses altered course anchor Antarctic appeared ashore Bellingshausen birds black petrels blew blue petrels boat Candlemas Islands canoes Cape Captain Cook chart chronometers clouds cocoa-nut colour continued coral covered crew dark daybreak deck east eastward farther fathoms feet fresh freshened frost Governor heavy horizon icebergs icefield island knots land latitude Lazarev light wind Long longitude look-out lunar distances Macquarie Macquarie Island midday midnight miles Mirnyi mist morning mountain natives navigation night noon north-east north-west o'clock observed officers Ono Island Otahiti Palliser Island passed penguins Peter I Island Port Jackson proceeded rain reef round Russian sazhen ship shore shortened sail side sight snow fell South Georgia south-east south-west southern staysail swell tack temperature thermometer thick weather top-gallant topsails turned Van Diemen's Land variation vessels Vostok voyage whales wind shifted Zavodovski