. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. f AKCTK' !li> 40 iicatli tllr into till' 'S on, tllr 1 ex ha it'll t)iai with iiir ivasiil row is to (' likr tl;,. r iiioiitlis. ornidiislv, the nidst tilt, tllllS •li (Miabirs licr yoiiiiL;' '1 of food. V of WOll- le i)aroiif; 'cl in their n)tly not tl HIS, anil a wo iiu'lit's rt ill flic of pvovi- voyaji'crs er eiioiiiy ' whifli It liiid uul hofii much iiiil structitMi and \v- to havt' mean rr- md, with ad rolled j
. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. f AKCTK' !li> 40 iicatli tllr into till' 'S on, tllr 1 ex ha it'll t)iai with iiir ivasiil row is to (' likr tl;,. r iiioiitlis. ornidiislv, the nidst tilt, tllllS •li (Miabirs licr yoiiiiL;' '1 of food. V of WOll- le i)aroiif; 'cl in their n)tly not tl HIS, anil a wo iiu'lit's rt ill flic of pvovi- voyaji'crs er eiioiiiy ' whifli It liiid uul hofii much iiiil structitMi and \v- to havt' mean rr- md, with ad rolled joiit like An alct)- all frai!'- 1 almost he iiiet:il iind torn it np as with a cliisid. Thoy wore too dainty for salt iiieilts: ;4Toiliid i-titfeo tliey had an evident rtdisli for; old nvas was a favoiiritf for some reason or other; even eur ll lir. which had ijeen reared " to taki possession " of the wa ; • , was <,'nawed down to the very statf. They had made a iet;e ir tVoiic of it; rolling our over the ice; ami, unable to mastiep^e onr heavy india-rubber (doth, tlu»y liiid tietl it lip la iiiiimao-hiable hard knots.' N'mnbtU'S of sea-birds are found breedin<r alonffthe Arctic shores as far as man has hithert<» pcuietrated ; some even keep the sea in the high latitudes all the winter, wherever open water exists. On the most northern rocks thera/or-bill rears its young, and the fulmar and Ross's gull have been seen in lanes of water beyond H2° lat. As the sun gains in power, enormous troops of puffins, looms, dovekies, rotges, skuas, hiirgermasters, Sabine's gulls, kittiwakes, ivory gulls, and Arctic terns, return to the north. There they enjoy the long sir iner day, and revel in the abundance of the tish-te?ming waters, bringing life and aninuition into solitudes seldom or perhaps never disturbed by the presence of man, and mingling their wild screams with the hoarse-resounding surge or the howling of the storm. In nianv localities they
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