Part, Chapter
1 I, I | furs of wolves, grey bears, polar bears, otters, wolverenes,
2 I, I | terrible elements of the Polar climate! How could a woman
3 I, I | least four degrees from the Polar circle.~
4 I, II | direction: Hearne, towards the Polar Sea, in 1770, to the discovery
5 I, II | taken refuge beyond the polar circle, is a sufficient
6 I, III | generally employed in the polar countries to set going afresh
7 I, III | myself to the shores of the Polar Sea.”~And with fresh assurances
8 I, IV | The large ruminants of the polar districts—the buffaloes
9 I, IV | expedition for crossing the Polar regions. Everything had
10 I, IV | plenty of reindeer in the Polar regions. Whole tribes of
11 I, IV | of an expedition to the Polar Sea. They were all brave,
12 I, V | inured to the rigour of a Polar climate.~“A good beginning,”
13 I, V | difference between these Polar regions and the green prairies
14 I, V | splendid constellations of the Polar skies are spread out above
15 I, VI | warmth it gives even in the Polar regions !”~“Ah, madam,”
16 I, VI | and marvels of the long Polar night.”~“Have you ever visited
17 I, VI | do when the heat of the Polar sun inflames their blood-another
18 I, VII | rodents. Now and then a fierce polar bear was seen, and Mrs Paulina
19 I, VII | equatorial countries than of the Polar districts.”~“Do you think
20 I, VII | even on the verge of the Polar Sea; for these trees would
21 I, VII | matter to men accustomed to Polar expeditions. Jaspar Hobson
22 I, VIII | brilliant but not very powerful Polar sun, now describing a diurnal
23 I, VIII | oil the confines of the Polar Sea, and that it was open
24 I, X | to the other across the Polar Sea.”~“Well, Lieutenant,
25 I, X | qualities in starting on a fresh Polar expedition after all he
26 I, X | explore the shores of the Polar Sea in 1838, and whose courageous
27 I, XI | duck tribe; but only a few Polar hares, difficult of approach,
28 I, XI | however, not to be disobeyed.~Polar bears and birds were, therefore,
29 I, XI | accustomed to the rugged, barren polar landscape. The ground at
30 I, XI | have met a whole family of polar bears!”~“But I daresay the
31 I, XIV | Lieutenant.~“I am a native of the Polar regions, madam,” he often
32 I, XIV | there were also plenty of Polar hares, which formed an agreeable
33 I, XIV | neglected. In addition to the Polar bares, which underwent every
34 I, XIV | specimen of the formidable Polar bear warned the hunters
35 I, XIV | the principal food of the Polar hares. Steeped in boiling
36 I, XV | that the ebb and flow of Polar seas are very distinctly
37 I, XV | volcanoes can exist at all. on Polar continents.”~“Well, there
38 I, XVI | degrees farther north, the polar night would have set in
39 I, XVI | everything was prepared for the Polar night.~And now all the wants
40 I, XVII | and other phenomena of Polar countries worthy even of
41 I, XVII | fresh and wholesome meat. Polar or Arctic hares were plentiful,
42 I, XVII | the gloomy shores of the Polar Sea, only a few pairs of
43 I, XVII | the commencement of the Polar night, but they too were
44 I, XVII | again for two months. The Polar night had commenced!~
45 I, XVIII| CHAPTER XVIII.~ THE POLAR NIGHT.~The long night was
46 I, XVIII| meteors so frequent in the Polar regions, &c., &c. Then the
47 I, XVIII| the awful beauty of the Polar regions in a snow-storm,
48 I, XIX | when the darkness of the Polar night would be most profound,
49 I, XIX | with the teeth and claws of Polar bears; and two children,
50 I, XX | Marbre killed a good many Polar hares. Some twenty starving
51 I, XX | residence in the rigorous Polar regions. They had seen strong
52 I, XXI | CHAPTER XXI.~ THE LARGE POLAR BEARS.~The only one of the
53 I, XXII | last reappeared, and the Polar night was at an end. It
54 I, XXII | along by the currents of the Polar Sea, gradually drew back
55 I, XXIII| food, such as caribous, Polar hares, &c., which, strange
56 II, I | Hobson on the borders of the Polar Sea, had drifted! Was the
57 II, II | the open sea to the high Polar latitudes, from which there
58 II, II | less by the icy hand of the Polar winter. The ocean would
59 II, II | given to that part of the Polar Sea between Cape Bathurst
60 II, II | comprehended between the Polar Circle and the imperfectly
61 II, II | Barnett, “whereabouts in the Polar Sea we are at this moment;
62 II, II | the chart of the fearful Polar regions, towards which they
63 II, III | which a traveller in the Polar regions should never be
64 II, III | Mrs Joliffe’s saucepan. Polar hares, martens, musk rats,
65 II, III | the Investigator in the Polar seas. He caught some hundreds
66 II, III | removed from maps of the Polar regions.”~Two hours’ rest
67 II, V | hunting the reindeer and Polar hares, which abounded near
68 II, V | met with ice-fields in the Polar seas one hundred miles long
69 II, V | good many days during the Polar night, if Victoria Island
70 II, VIII | the martens, ermines, and Polar hares, which we spare will
71 II, VIII | angrily.~It was an immense Polar bear, and the two women
72 II, IX | the next year. The long Polar night being over, and the
73 II, IX | accustomed to the long dark Polar nights—she felt sure that
74 II, X | the dogs the whole of the Polar night was stored up. They
75 II, X | circumstances the reindeer, Polar hares, and even the wolves
76 II, X | to devour the martens and Polar hares, which were their
77 II, X | distributed in the capricious Polar regions.~The colonists therefore
78 II, X | above the horizon. The long Polar night was beginning nine
79 II, XII | cold and darkness of the Polar night. It will be hard work,
80 II, XII | winter in the midst of the Polar Sea!” observed Mrs Barnett.~“
81 II, XII | cold and darkness of the Polar night. It will be hard work,
82 II, XII | winter in the midst of the Polar Sea!” observed Mrs Barnett.~“
83 II, XII | cloud, the gloom of the Polar landscape became still more
84 II, XII | refraction.”~It was, in fact, a Polar bear, and Mrs Barnett drew
85 II, XII | weather peculiar to the Polar regions, which so obstinately
86 II, XIV | apparently interminable Polar night. Snow fell abundantly
87 II, XIV | friendly propensities of Polar bears.~“Let him come, Sergeant,”
88 II, XIV | commencement of the long Polar night.~
89 II, XV | however, of Tropical not Polar species, which had evidently
90 II, XV | upon the sad and desolate Polar landscape before her. Her
91 II, XV | with the phenomena of the Polar regions. On board a whaler
92 II, XV | after this strangely mild Polar winter. A few tender shoots
93 II, XV | his territory; reindeer, Polar hares, musk-rats, shrews,
94 II, XV | phenomenon peculiar to the Polar regions, which rendered
95 II, XV | noticed in the spring in the Polar regions.~“It is not a mist
96 II, XVII | ice in the darkness of the Polar night!~On the 5th May, Hobson
97 II, XIX | recalled the bitter cold of the Polar regions were the relics
98 II, XXII | it. The martens, ermines, polar hares, musk-rats, and beavers
99 II, XXIII| thickness. The long bitter Polar winters must have “fed it
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