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...- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and foun...

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...e long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Af... ...ttlements and cities founded in Cuba -- Cortez the hero/of a love adventure -- Expeditions to Yucatan -- Cortez appointed to the command of an expedit... ...Return to Mexico with additional honors -- He wastes his fortunes in fruitless expeditions -- -- Divested of all authority -- Proceeds to Spain with a... ...e Kaniptschatdalers -- Return of the expedition to England 505- 512 CHAPTER L. Arctic Voyages. -- Discoveries in the north by ancient navigators -- Fi... ...Disappointment of John Davis -- Astounding sufferings of a wrecked crew in the Arctic -- Natural phenomena in the north -- A roll of honor -- Voyages ... ...oss -- Captains who have reached the North Pole -- Latitudes reached by famous Arctic explorers -- The overland journey of Schwatka 521- 528 CHAPTER L... ... -- A dance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unknown sea -- Tropical birds in the Arctic region -- Some strange facts -- Remarkable customs of Siberians ... ...e straits which bear his name........................... 518 Ice-fields of the Arctic................................................ 524 Schwatka's o... ...tence, the reports of its discovery having been so well verified, yet numerous expeditions in quest of the same failed to reach its shores. This is th...

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...nds were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recovery of the sunken Tit... ...civilizations. North of the 45-degree parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little...

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...nds were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recovery of the sunken Tit... ...civilizations. North of the 45-degree parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little...

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...ce of “macroscopic fuctuations” on geographic coordinates (by materials of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions). Biophysics, 2003, v. 48(5), 1123–1131. 6... ...ctuations” on geographic coordinates (by materials of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions). Biophysics, 2003, v. 48(5), 1123–1131. 6. Shnoll S. E., Zench...

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...pecies: just like the Polar bear is doing today: mating with grizzlies in the Arctic to escape from dying out completely as a species. This genetic ... ...s downwind of them that do not pollute the air. China has been polluting the Arctic and the forests of Canada with its industrial air pollution for ... ...l of Science, all civilized people are obsessed with dead things. Scientific expeditions spend 100’s of millions of dollars unearthing old, dead, f... ...Columbus. How do these two dates coincide? Chinese, and a Portuguese sailing expeditions to find new lands? 70 years apart? How is this explained...

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... is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition. Men go on polar expeditions.” “Not business men. And besides, they get paid for polar expe-... ...ple!” he exclaimed. “No! Banish all that! Think your- self a sort of ultra-arctic voyager exploring the desolate places of space. Look at it!” He wave... ...tance here and there, white substance that was no longer air but snow, the arctic appearance had gone altogether. Ev- erywhere broad rusty brown space... ...only some of that snow had remained!” “It’s clean gone! We’re driving from arctic to tropical at the 66 The First Men in the Moon rate of a degree a ...

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...ld that these were the ribs of whales.” —T ales of a Whale V oyager to the Arctic Ocean. “It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these... ...e outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal. We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time,... ...m and the savages. They may celebrate as they will the heroes of Exploring Expeditions, your Cooks, 113 Herman Melville your Krusensterns; but I say ... ...he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whal- ers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers ins... ...re than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen have long pursued... ...to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six fac-similes of magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement to the excellent voy- ager (I...

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... told that these were the ribs of whales.” Tales of a Whale Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. “It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these... ...e outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal. We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time,... ...m and the savages. They may celebrate as they will the heroes of Exploring Expeditions, your Cooks, your Krusensterns; but I say that scores of anonym... ...he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inser... ...re than two centuries past has been hunted by the Dutch and English in the Arctic seas; it is the whale which the American fishermen have long pursued ... ...s to the inspection of a shivering world ninety six facsimiles of magnified Arctic snow crystals. I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I h...

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...ee them in it very often in such a place as Lucerne, as they returned from expeditions in the moun- tains. The older men would wear long robes very fr... ...been born into a liberal and progressive Roman Empire that spread from the Arctic Ocean to the Bight of Benin, and was to know no Decline and Fall, an... ... of square miles of sandy desert in Africa and Asia set apart; much of the Arctic and Antarctic circles; vast areas of moun- tain land and frozen mars...

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...een nor ear heard of the specious miracles of nature brought together from arctic and from tropic deserts, putting forth their strength, their speed, ... ... quieted for the present; but the Goths of the Ukraine, in three marauding expeditions of unprecedented violence, ravaged the wealthy regions of Asia ...

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... be related. Herodorus is of opinion, that though there were many fa- mous expeditions undertaken by the bravest men of his time, yet Theseus never jo... ...d at home might, no less than those that were at sea or in garrisons or on expeditions, have a fair and just occasion of receiving the benefit and 26... ...mong the people, for wisdom and for love of his countrymen. But of all his expeditions, that to the Chersonese gave most satisfaction and pleasure, ha... ...ir captain, and their willing instructor in the arts of war, when out upon expeditions, and their model in that true emulation and love of excellence ... ...of seeming to have been executed with per- fect ease and readiness; so the expeditions and acts of Epaminondas or Agesilaus, that were full of toil an... ... Celti, in its vast size and extent, reaches from the furthest sea and the arctic regions to the lake Maeotis eastward, and to that part of Scythia wh...

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...ough moun- tain inn would be found on an island of deep mud in a sea of snow, while the baiting strings of mules, and the carts full of casks and bale... ... been cultivat- ing a familiarity with all the churches of Rome, and I knew nothing of the insides of the old churches of London! This befell on a Sun... ...d barking tremendously. There is a dog residing in the Borough of Southwark who keeps a blind man. He may be seen, most days, in Oxford- street, halin...

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... in terms that might have moved a pyramid from its base, but the Frost was arctic. An iceberg will move, but he is past all melting!’ ‘I respect his s... ...resented, and Lady Conway often gave him charge over her son in sports and expeditions beyond ladies’ management: he was, in effect, nearly the ruler ... ...hat the only safe place for ladies was just where she was. He made various expeditions to procure intelligence, and his tidings were cheer- ful enough...

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...ore con- genial friends often to need her step-daughter in her visits, her expeditions to lotteries, and her calls on her old friends the nuns. On a f... ...t on obtruding it. Pray, are the houses henceforth to be Frost T errace or Arctic Row?’ ‘ Are you come to laugh or to remonstrate?’ exclaimed James, s... ...- ingly extended his stay at Aix-la-Chapelle, letting Fitzjocelyn organize expeditions from thence to Liege and other places in the neighbourhood. The...

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...l outwritten; and all their talk related to the purchase of furniture, the expeditions to Lakelands, music, public affairs, the pardonable foibles of ... ... then with a shudder, where the funereal square bricks-up the Church, that Arctic hen-mother sits on the square, and the moving dead are summoned to t...

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...too, reputed a beauty; struck him cold. He fancied her trans- parent, only Arctic. Her transparency displayed to him all the common virtues, and a ser... ...hemes to rob her of dear liberty were certainly planned. They conversed of expeditions to Redworth’s Berkshire mansion, and to The Crossways, untenant...

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...e get at me? Surely the very fiend himself, if he happened to be in a high arctic latitude, would not indulge his malice so far as to follow its trail... ...l. Every moment might bring the Brit- ish cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certaint...

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...qually, into two vast regions, one of which is bounded on the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches... ...qually, into two vast regions, one of which is bounded on the north by the Arctic Pole, and by the two great oceans on the east and west. It stretches... ...less perils and privations which always attend the commence- ment of these expeditions. I have often met, even on the verge of the wilderness, with yo... ...est which have not been visited by Europeans, consult the ac- count of two expeditions undertaken at the expense of Con- gress by Major Long. This tra...

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...ed siege, and that many of the chieftains busied them- selves in piratical expeditions about its neighborhood. Such a one was that of which Achilles n... ...ike a comet burn’d, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.”—“Parad...

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..., and the fevers which might make the tropical seas more perilous than the Arctic. No Elizabethan mariner had any scruples respect- ing piracy, and so... ...am!” said Lord Shrewsbury, with the distaste of middle age for underground expeditions, “is four leagues hence, and a dark, damp, doleful den, most 1...

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...y private individuals, joined them. Mr. Fison took no part in any of these expeditions. About midnight excited hails were heard from a boat about a co... ...f a shadow. The earthquakes began and grew until all down America from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn, hillsides were sliding, fissures were opening, ...

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...d be- gun. I could have waited for my father, whose return from one of his expeditions in the prince’s service was expected every instant; but though ... ...ought soon after ‘Harry’ on her lips, and an atmosphere about us much less Arctic. ‘Ottilia, you have told me you wish me to go to England.’ ‘I have.’...

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...er and closer to his skirts, despatching the back of his hand on exploring expeditions in search of the bottle’s surface, retired two or three paces. ... ...domestic interest concerning her papa, she infused into the narrative such Arctic suggestions of her having been an unappreciated blessing to mankind,...

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... in proceed- ing southwards or in descending a mountain. When we reach the Arctic regions, or snow-capped sum- mits, or absolute deserts, the struggle... ...the climate alone. Not until we reach the extreme confines of life, in the arctic regions or on the borders of an utter desert, will competition cease... ...at each species is adapted to the climate of its own home: species from an arctic or even from a temperate region cannot endure a tropical climate, or... ...e exclusive care of the larvae, and the mas- ters alone go on slave-making expeditions. In Swit- zerland the slaves and masters work together, mak- in... ... abundance of the individuals of many species all over the world, from the Arctic regions to the equator, inhabiting various zones of depths from the ... ...gration for the northern temperate forms, as there now is for the strictly arctic productions. We see the same fact in the great difference between th...

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...kers, nowadays, who undertake no persevering, never ending enterprises. Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hea... ...s a matter of course. Some of our northern Indians eat raw the marrow of the Arctic reindeer, as well as various other parts, including the sum mits ...

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...e! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters! Far breath’d land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvani... ...the foretruck, I take my place late at night in the crow’s nest, We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough, Through the clear atmosphere I str... ...agascar, I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts, I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs, I see the superior oceans and the inferior... ...rows upon them and blossoms and corn, I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions. I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unkn... ...e, their harvest labor done, they rest standing, they are too tired, Afar on arctic ice the she walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around, The ... ...y the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts, Seal fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice. The shapes arise! Leaves... ...n—lo, soul, to thee, thy sight, they rise, The plans, the voyages again, the expeditions; Again Vasco de Gama sails forth, Again the knowledge gain’d,...

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...force, as their age requires, but allow them to devote themselves to begging expeditions, and suf fer them to spend the time, in which they might be ... ...signs, degrees, and figures in the utmost variety. There we inspect the ant arctic pole, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard; we ad mire the lumi...

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...or scrutiny. He was a striking per sonage, and a most picturesque one, in his Arctic dress of wool and fur. Standing six foot two or three, with prop... ...ed: “And biff! down you come. Oh, great medicine men! You go Fort Yukon, I go Arctic City, — twenty five sleep, — big string, all the time, — I catch ... ...our; good by.’ You look and catch plenty soda. All the time you Fort Yukon, me Arctic City. Hi yu medicine man!” Ruth smiled so ingenuously at the fai... ... for the word, the spirit for the letter. When the world rang with the tale of Arctic gold, and the lure of the North gripped the heartstrings of men,... ...in. Skirting the shores of the bay, where the Mackenzie disem bogues into the Arctic Ocean, they entered the mouth of the Little Peel River. Then beg... ...rs of Rio Blanco had helped their striking brothers of Puebla. The hunger, the expeditions in the hills for berries, the roots and herbs that all ate ...

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... remained lasted until three o’clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land. As darkness came ... ...he Wall of the World B Y THE time his mother began leaving the cave on hunting expeditions, the cub had learned well the law that forbade his approach... ...wn that stream to where it effected its junction with the Yukon just under the Arctic Circle. Here stood the old Hudson’s Bay Company fort; and here w... ...he dogs. “I say, this is a pretty warm reception for a poor lone wolf from the Arctic,” the master said, while White Fang calmed down under his caress... ...her. “I told Weedon that I was afraid the warm climate would not agree with an Arctic animal.” “He’s trying to speak, I do believe,” Beth announced. ...

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...bounding with pelagic animals is invariably found in a certain part of the Arctic Sea. CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of C... ... a quiet old horse will frequently thus catch thirty or forty in a day. In Arctic North America* the Indians catch the Varying Hare by walking spirall... ... about the same time destroyed the inhabitants of tropical, temperate, and arctic lati- tudes on both sides of the globe. In North America we positive... ...n the other hand, a carcass washed by a flood into a shal- low part of the Arctic Sea, would be preserved for an indefinite period, if it were soon af... ...hrough the woods from Cucao to S. Carlos, but never by the coast. On these expeditions, the Indians carry with them only roasted corn, and of this the... ... into small angular fragments. Scoresby* has observed the same *Scoresby’s Arctic Regions, vol. i. p. 122. 352 The V oyage of the Beagle fact in Spit...

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... rooms in which I was going to live between the strenuous times of the sea-expeditions, was enough to fill my inner being with a great content. Her gl... ... a moment to lose if she was to be saved, as though we had been lost on an Arctic plain. I had to put her arms into the sleeves, myself, one after ano... ...t. Then as if I had in sober truth rescued her from an Alpine height or an Arctic floe, I busied myself with nothing but lighting the gas and starting...

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...f trade and civilization taking advantage of the results of all exploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in navigation; ncharts... ...derstand him. No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his expeditions in a precious casket. A written word is the choicest of relics.... ...nd to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow birds. But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hired ...

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...trade and civilization, — taking advantage of the results of all ex ploring expeditions, using new passages and all improvements in navigation; — cha... ...n understand him. No wonder that Alexander carried the Iliad with him on his expeditions in a precious casket. A written word is the choicest of relic... ...m and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow birds. But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hire...

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...ng me what name you are accustomed to answer to.’ She seemed unaware of an Arctic husband, and replied: ‘My father called me Carin—short for Carinthia... ...ower caught an image of it, as comparable, without much strain- ing, to an Arctic region smitten by the beams. ‘Nothing breaks her courage,’ he said. ... ...world reported the earl as out 314 The Amazing Marriage on another of his expeditions: and, say what we will, we must think kindly of a wealthy noble... ...ordinary comparison for the division of a wedded twain is correct. She was Arctic, and Antarctic he had to be, perforce of the distance she put betwee...

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...ften do I think of seeking for some quiet cell either in the Tropics or in Arctic latitudes, where the changes of the year, and the external signs cor... ...d the subsequent retreat of the ten thousand to the Black Sea—the Parthian expeditions of the Romans, especially those of Crassus and Julian—or (as mo...

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... began to dread an October in Scotland for Flora, almost as if it were the Arctic regions. He grew somewhat more animated in praising Flora, and 521 ... ...— a task which Ethel was very glad to depute to her, and made a great many expeditions into the garden to put together autumn nosegays for the vases—f...