Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland, Sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in Search of the Lost Colonies, Under the Command of Captn. W. A. Graah |
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... Snow - blindness- A Greenland entertainment - Cascades near Asioukasik - Fondness for snuff - Account of the Erkilliks ; Mr. Wormskiold's conjectures con- cerning them - Great thickness of the ice off Cape Mösting - Icebergs -Curiosity ...
... Snow - blindness- A Greenland entertainment - Cascades near Asioukasik - Fondness for snuff - Account of the Erkilliks ; Mr. Wormskiold's conjectures con- cerning them - Great thickness of the ice off Cape Mösting - Icebergs -Curiosity ...
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... snow - belt and the glacier , and of the various vegetable productions at different alti- tudes . We could wish , further , to be furnished with your obser- vations on the temperature of the earth and of springs . V. Should you discover ...
... snow - belt and the glacier , and of the various vegetable productions at different alti- tudes . We could wish , further , to be furnished with your obser- vations on the temperature of the earth and of springs . V. Should you discover ...
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... snow and hail . The ship's bows were completely covered with ice , and icicles hung from the rigging as in the depth of winter . On the morning of the 8th , as the weather promised to be fair , I went on shore for the purpose of taking ...
... snow and hail . The ship's bows were completely covered with ice , and icicles hung from the rigging as in the depth of winter . On the morning of the 8th , as the weather promised to be fair , I went on shore for the purpose of taking ...
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... snow - storm , which obliged us ore , where we were agreeably surprised to find an Greenland hut , that promised us better shelter than the ent tent we had been supplied with at the colony . r guide informed us , had been the scene ...
... snow - storm , which obliged us ore , where we were agreeably surprised to find an Greenland hut , that promised us better shelter than the ent tent we had been supplied with at the colony . r guide informed us , had been the scene ...
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... snow - topped Sermesok . Still another , but smaller cave , is said to be at Akia , containing , if we may believe the Greenlanders , some ancient graves , out of dread of which none of them dare enter it . The Greenlanders are of ...
... snow - topped Sermesok . Still another , but smaller cave , is said to be at Akia , containing , if we may believe the Greenlanders , some ancient graves , out of dread of which none of them dare enter it . The Greenlanders are of ...
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10th Vibration accordingly Alluk ancient angekkok arrived aurora borealis Biörn bishop blubber boat boat-women Bygd lay Cape Farewell Chorography church coast of Greenland colonists colony Count Moltke course direction discovered distance district of Juliana's-hope drift-ice East Bygd East coast Eastlanders Egede Eggers Ernenek Europeans expedition feet Finn Magnussen firth Frederick's-hope Friederichsthal further North glaciers Goie Good-hope Greenland language Hvarf Hvidsærk ice-blink icebergs Iceland inhabited Ivar Bardsen Jökel journey kajakkers Kangek Kemisak land latitude Lindenow lofty Lysufiord mainland miles mountains native Greenlanders navigation Naze NEEDLE Nennortalik northern Nukarbik obliged observed occasion Octavo old Icelandic Omenak Omevik probably promontory Puisortok reached rocks ruins sail seals seemed seen ship shore situated skerries snow sound South Spitzbergen spot stones tents umiak Vahl vicinity voyage West Bygd West coast whole wind Winter women Wormskiold
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