 | Georg Heinrich Langsdorff - 1817 - 650 Seiten
...into a circle round it, when they are almost sure of the game, since, 'like the whale and sea-dog, it must come up to the surface of the water to breathe, at short intervals of time. A great variety of the rarest kinds of fox-skins may often be seen in the... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 Seiten
...no doubt — with the poor thing's neck in his mouth and its body across his shoulder. 1 867.] 691 of walruses, with their long tusks and ugly heads,...is so called, and when he does this, he makes the water fly up into the air. "This breathing of the largest whales can be seen several miles ; that is,... | |
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... much like seals. The narwhal is a small species of whale, being about twenty feet long, and spotted something like an iron-gray horse. Its great peculiarity is the horn, which grows, like that of a sword-fish, straight out of the nose, and is nearly... 