Miscellaneous Publications, Volum 12U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880 |
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Miscellaneous Publications, Edicions 4-6 Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Visualització completa - 1874 |
Miscellaneous Publications, Volum 12 Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Visualització completa - 1880 |
Miscellaneous Publications, Volum 12 Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) Visualització completa - 1880 |
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Pàgina 178 - They lie in herds of many hundreds upon the ice, huddling one over the other like swine, and roar or bray very loud ; so that in the night, or infoggy weather, they gave us notice of the vicinity of the ice, before we could see it.
Pàgina 179 - On the approach of our boats toward the ice, they all took their cubs under their fins, and endeavoured to escape with them into the sea. Several, whose young were killed...
Pàgina 372 - Therefore, this great band of bachelor seals, or 'hollus chickie,' is compelled, when it visits land, to live apart entirely, miles away frequently, from the breeding grounds, and in this admirably perfect manner of nature are those seals which can be properly killed without injury to the rookeries selected and held aside so that the natives can visit and take them, as they would so many hogs, without disturbing in the slightest degree the peace and quiet of the breeding grounds where the stock is...
Pàgina 193 - Falkland Isle Seal" of Pennant, but Zimmermann's seems to have been entirely overlooked by subsequent writers. As it has eighteen years' priority, it must be adopted in place of falklandica. During the last half of the last century and the early part of the present, the early voyagers to the southern seas (as...
Pàgina 704 - The natives [of the Island of Harris] salt the seals with the ashes of burnt sea- ware, and say they are good food : the vulgar eat them commonly in the spring-time, with a long pointed stick instead of a fork, to prevent the strong smell which their hands would otherwise have for several hours after.
Pàgina 179 - ... at times above the surface, as if for air, and again diving under it with a dreadful bellowing. The female, in particular, whose young had been destroyed and taken into the boat, became so enraged that she attacked the cutter, and struck her two tusks through the bottom of it.
Pàgina 110 - The walrus, like some of the higher order of beings to which he has been compared, is fond of his own music, and will lie for hours listening to himself. His vocalization is something between the mooing of a cow and the deepest baying of a mastiff: very round and full, with its barks or detached notes repeated rather quickly seven to nine times in succession.
Pàgina 540 - Sometimes a crowd of men clinging round the ship's bows, and holding on to the bights of ropes suspended there for the purpose, would jump and dance on the ice, bending and breaking it with their weight, shoving it below the vessel, and dragging her on over it with all their force. Up to their knees in water, as one piece after another sank below the cutwater, they still held on, hurraing at every fresh start she made, dancing, jumping, pushing, shoving, hauling, hewing, sawing, till every soul on...
Pàgina 621 - The atluk is at one extremity of this excavation, and in kuch a position that it is always a ready channel of retreat in case of danger. The first young found in the Upper Cumberland waters was during the early days of March ; still I have taken a foetus from the mother in the middle of April. The most profitable time for hunting the young seal is during the month of April ; after this date they have shed so much that the skins are nearly worthless till the hispid hair has got to be of the proper...
Pàgina 625 - To encourage them to procure more skins, they are furnished with a cheap breechloading gun and a few hundred cartridges, which they soon waste, and then their guns are of course worthless. At the rate both young and adults are slaughtered at the present day, they will soon become so scarce that there will not be enough to supply the wants of the natives."* " Copied, with alight verbal changes, from Mr.