Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, 21. köideAmerican Geographical Society of New York, 1889 |
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... seen a lady with a dress that was said to cost £ 1000 . But the farther north and the farther west we go , the more we get away from civilization , till , at last , we meet the lowest and most degraded type of humanity - a people in the ...
... seen a lady with a dress that was said to cost £ 1000 . But the farther north and the farther west we go , the more we get away from civilization , till , at last , we meet the lowest and most degraded type of humanity - a people in the ...
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... seen a mother , carrying a child on her back , hand it a pipe , at which the child would take a couple of puffs with apparent delight .. They often used to send , in barter , small bits of tobacco , wrapped up in gum , to other tribes ...
... seen a mother , carrying a child on her back , hand it a pipe , at which the child would take a couple of puffs with apparent delight .. They often used to send , in barter , small bits of tobacco , wrapped up in gum , to other tribes ...
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... seen best when they go into the water . In the summer- time they dive down into every pond they meet on their way , not from any love of cleanliness , but to cool them- selves off . In the winter they never bathe . Newly- born children ...
... seen best when they go into the water . In the summer- time they dive down into every pond they meet on their way , not from any love of cleanliness , but to cool them- selves off . In the winter they never bathe . Newly- born children ...
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... seen what I should call " black beauties . " Their hands were small , their feet dainty and well- shaped , and their insteps so high that one would in- voluntarily ask where in the world they could have acquired this distinctive mark of ...
... seen what I should call " black beauties . " Their hands were small , their feet dainty and well- shaped , and their insteps so high that one would in- voluntarily ask where in the world they could have acquired this distinctive mark of ...
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... seen that the Australian aborigines made short work with anything that gave them trouble or worry , but later I learned that the old women are rather useful than otherwise to the tribe . They are very clever in finding food , and not ...
... seen that the Australian aborigines made short work with anything that gave them trouble or worry , but later I learned that the old women are rather useful than otherwise to the tribe . They are very clever in finding food , and not ...
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Page 263 - ... degree of west longitude, shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Page 262 - North latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of West longitude (Meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the North along the Channel called Portland Channel, as far as the Point of the Continent where it strikes the 56th degree of North latitude...
Page 263 - ... degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned...
Page 262 - The line of demarcation between the possessions of the high contracting parties, upon the coast of the continent, and the islands of America to the northwest, shall be drawn...
Page ii - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Page 262 - ... point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude, (of the same meridian;) and finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen ocean.
Page 262 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Page 263 - ... at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Page lxviii - Angell in the chair. The reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with.