New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... extreme cold . Frequently , they merely take out the tongues , leaving the rest of the body to putrify , or to be devoured by wild beasts . At times , however , such is the extreme scarcity of food , that they are obliged to have ...
... extreme cold . Frequently , they merely take out the tongues , leaving the rest of the body to putrify , or to be devoured by wild beasts . At times , however , such is the extreme scarcity of food , that they are obliged to have ...
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... extreme rigour ; but they are few in number , and mostly of the order of dipteres , and of the genera culex , tipula , syr- phus , and bibio of Linnæus . I also met with a new species of the curculio , or weasle ; and a very singular ...
... extreme rigour ; but they are few in number , and mostly of the order of dipteres , and of the genera culex , tipula , syr- phus , and bibio of Linnæus . I also met with a new species of the curculio , or weasle ; and a very singular ...
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... extreme . For my own part , I felt on the occasion , what I had often felt before on similar ones , a total incapacity to express the happiness which this interview occasioned me , and on his the same effect was visible ; those fetters ...
... extreme . For my own part , I felt on the occasion , what I had often felt before on similar ones , a total incapacity to express the happiness which this interview occasioned me , and on his the same effect was visible ; those fetters ...
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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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