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Page 13
... seemed to have given up its dead , as they glided onward like a troop of spectres . " Half of the Indians had perished , and of the three hundred and fifty cavaliers only eighty were left . Such was the end of an expedition which for ...
... seemed to have given up its dead , as they glided onward like a troop of spectres . " Half of the Indians had perished , and of the three hundred and fifty cavaliers only eighty were left . Such was the end of an expedition which for ...
Page 28
... seemed lost in the dense bamboos , until the Indians opened a passage with their machetes and we crept under the low arcade of foliage . " Even if the railroad were built , almost all the produce of the Amazon and montaña country could ...
... seemed lost in the dense bamboos , until the Indians opened a passage with their machetes and we crept under the low arcade of foliage . " Even if the railroad were built , almost all the produce of the Amazon and montaña country could ...
Page 41
... seemed better to insure a continuity of these annual addresses , even if one of them might not be up to the high standard which should be maintained for them . It must have impressed every general reader of scientific journals that the ...
... seemed better to insure a continuity of these annual addresses , even if one of them might not be up to the high standard which should be maintained for them . It must have impressed every general reader of scientific journals that the ...
Page 64
... seemed to correspond to Maldonado's description of the entrance to the mythical " Strait of Annan . " The eastern shore of Yakutat bay , called " Almiralty bay " on the Spanish chart , was explored , and an excursion was made in boats ...
... seemed to correspond to Maldonado's description of the entrance to the mythical " Strait of Annan . " The eastern shore of Yakutat bay , called " Almiralty bay " on the Spanish chart , was explored , and an excursion was made in boats ...
Page 64
... seemed to be composed of solid ice . East- ward from Iey bay the coast is described as " bordered by low- lands rising with a gradual and uniform ascent to the foot - hills of lofty mountains , whose summits are but the base from which ...
... seemed to be composed of solid ice . East- ward from Iey bay the coast is described as " bordered by low- lands rising with a gradual and uniform ascent to the foot - hills of lofty mountains , whose summits are but the base from which ...
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Agassiz glacier Alaska Amazon appears avalanches base beneath Bering Bering island Bering's Blossom island border camp canoe carts chart Coast and Geodetic crest crevasses débris dense Disenchantment bay eastern elevation Elias range Elias region expedition exploration feet flows formed Geodetic Survey GEOG Geological Survey glacial Haenke island height Hitchcock range ice-streams Icy bay indicated Kamshatka Kerr l'Isle l'Isle's lake land longitude lower Lucia glacier Malaspina glacier margin Marvine glacier melting miles moraines Mount Augusta Mount Cook Mount Owen Mount St NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC National Geographic Society névé night observations peaks Pinnacle system plateau Port Mulgrave portion reached ridge river rocks route rugged Russian sandstone Seward glacier shale shore side slope snow snow-fields southern southward steep stones storm stream Street summit surface tent terrace tion topographic tunnel valley vegetation voyage western westward Yakutat bay Yakutat system