 | 1826 - 616 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon ; but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...pipe, during three weeks in the year, by means of a burning glass, from the sun's rays, " We have been driving rein-deer in sledges. Our intention is to... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon ; but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...pipe, during three weeks in the year, by means of a burning glass, from the sun's rays.. " We have been driving rein-deer in sledges. Our intention is... | |
 | 1824 - 666 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon ; but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...curtsey, without setting. At midnight the priest of the place lights his pipe, during three weeks in the year, by means of a burning-glass, from the sun's... | |
 | 1825 - 498 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon ; but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...ascended, and had the satisfaction to see him make his curtsey,without setting. At midnight the priest of the place lights his pipe,during three weeks in... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - 430 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon, but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...ascended, and had the satisfaction to see him make his courtesy without setting. At midnight the priest of this place lights his pipe during three weeks in... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 286 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon ; but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...pipe, during three weeks in the year, by means of a burning glass, from the sun's rays. We have been driving rein-deer in sledges. Our intention is to... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1837 - 408 pàgines
...mountain to the north. This mountain we ascended, ,and had the satisfaction to see him make his courtesy without setting. At midnight the priest of this place...the year by means of a burning-glass from the sun's jays." -Having, for the reason above stated, given up the design of visiting the polar regions, they... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon, but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...mountain we ascended, and had the satisfaction to sec him make his courtcsy without setting. At midnight, the priest of this place lights his pipe, during... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1856 - 304 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon, but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...ascended, and had the satisfaction to see him make his courtesy without setting. At midnight the priest of this place lights his pipe, during three weeks... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1859 - 396 pàgines
...For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon, but he dips his crimson visage behind a mountain to...ascended, and had the satisfaction to see him make his courtesy without setting. At midnight the priest of this place lights his pipe during three weeks in... | |
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Is it not famous to be here, within the frigid zone? More than two degrees within the arctic; and nearer to the pole than the most northern shores of Iceland ? For a long time darkness has been a stranger to us. The sun, as yet, passes not below the horizon... 