New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... bear from that I have just described . It is then a most formidable animal , being apparently the natural lord of those frozen regions . Every other animal shudders at his approach , considering it as the signal for im- mediate ...
... bear from that I have just described . It is then a most formidable animal , being apparently the natural lord of those frozen regions . Every other animal shudders at his approach , considering it as the signal for im- mediate ...
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... bear sprang after them , and was within a few feet of the hindmost , when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head , and killed him . They dragged him to the shore , and found that eight balls had passed through his body in ...
... bear sprang after them , and was within a few feet of the hindmost , when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head , and killed him . They dragged him to the shore , and found that eight balls had passed through his body in ...
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... bear in the head , close by the eye , which did not cause him to quit his prey ; but holding the body always by the neck , which he was devour- ing , carried it away as yet almost quite entire . Nevertheless , they then perceived that ...
... bear in the head , close by the eye , which did not cause him to quit his prey ; but holding the body always by the neck , which he was devour- ing , carried it away as yet almost quite entire . Nevertheless , they then perceived that ...
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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