 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - Страниц: 190
...are covered with sealskins. They were detained here several days by the bad weather. The climate is wretched; the summer solstice was now past, yet every...on the hills, and in the valleys there •was rain and sleet. 8O JEMMY BUTTON, YORK MINBTER, &C. While going one day on shore, the sailors pulled alongside... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 554
...Cape Horn, and here, at Christmas eve, we anchored in smooth water. We were detained here several day* by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched....in the valleys there was rain accompanied by sleet. Every valley is filled with streams of ice descending to the coast, and every arm of the sea is determinated... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - Страниц: 628
...upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence ; A WRETCHED CLIMATE. 259 but they return at intervals to -the same spots, as...While going one day on shore near Wollaston Island we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians. These were the most abject and miserable creatures I anywhere... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - Страниц: 542
...several days by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched : the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys...While going one day on shore near Wollaston Island, we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians. These were the entp. x.] WRETCHED STATE OF THE NATIVES.... | |
 | "Rectangle" (pseudonym of T. Winship.) - 1899 - Страниц: 212
...bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched. The summer solstice is now (25th December) passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys there was rain accompanied by sleet." It is utterly impossible to shut one's eyes to the fact that these evidences furnish indisputable proof... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1908 - Страниц: 542
...several days by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched : the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys...While going one day on shore near Wollaston Island, we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians. These were the most abject and miserable creatures I anywhere... | |
 | 1909 - Страниц: 574
...several days by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched: the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys...While going one day on shore near Wollaston Island, we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians. These were the most abject and miserable creatures I anywhere... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - Страниц: 564
...several days by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched: the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys...While going one day on shore near Wollaston Island, we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians. These were the most abject and miserable creatures I anywhere... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - Страниц: 508
...several days by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched; the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys...fancied the climate even worse than it really was. At a subsequent period the Beagle anchored for a couple of days under Wollaston Island, which is a... | |
 | Gaylon S. Campbell, John M. Norman - 2000 - Страниц: 316
...limits of survival. He reports: The climate is certainly wretched: the summer solstice was now passed, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys...accompanied by sleet. The thermometer generally stood about 45F, but in the night fell to 38 or 40. . . . while going one day on shore near Wallaston Island, we... | |
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The climate is certainly wretched : the summer solstice was now past, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys there was rain accompanied by sleet. The thermometer generally stood about 45°, but in the night fell to 38° or 40°. From... 
