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When he speaks of the messages of the English Government, in the matter of seal-catching in the Behring Sea, he calls it whitewashing the sealing, and explains that the "Behrings of this here observation lies in the application on it."
On the circumstance being mentioned to Mr. Skeoch, he kindly volunteered to go to the village, and accordingly took his seat on the sledge, accompanied also by Mr. Sherer. They carried with them a quantity of bread-dust to be distributed among the Esquimaux at the huts, their success in seal-catching having lately been indifferent.
Where intelligence is not highly valued and carefully promoted by selection, the intelligence derivable from association with man does not appear to be inherited. Lap-dogs, for instance, are often remarkably stupid. Darwin also instances the inheritance of dexterity in seal-catching as a case of use-inheritance. But this is amply explained by the ordinary law of heredity.
Its sterility and bleak and forbidding appearance, from all the accounts published respecting it, are scarcely equalled, certainly are not surpassed, in the most inhospitable countries near the North Pole; while ships are suddenly exposed to most violent storms, from which there is little chance of escaping, and in which, during one of the seal-catching seasons, a great number were lost.
On the morning of the 3d, a number of these people were observed to set off over the ice to the southwest, to bring, as we conjectured, either some more of their people or of their property from their last place of abode. On walking out to the huts after divine service, however, we found they had been seal-catching, and had succeeded in taking four.
On the circumstance being mentioned to Mr. Skeoch, he kindly volunteered to go to the village, and accordingly took his seat on the sledge, accompanied also by Mr. Sherer. They carried with them a quantity of bread-dust to be distributed among the Esquimaux at the huts, their success in seal-catching having lately been indifferent....
Hunt to proceed to a seal-catching establishment, which the Russian company had at the island of St. Paul, in the Sea of Kamtschatka. He accordingly set sail on the 4th of October, after having spent forty-five days at New Archangel boosing and bargaining with its roystering commander, and right glad was he to escape from the clutches of "this old man of the sea." The Beaver arrived at St.
Courtship, greater eagerness of males in; of fishes; of birds. Cow, winter change of colour. Crab, devil. Crab, shore, habits of. Crabro cribrarius, dilated tibiae of the male. Crabs, proportions of the sexes in. Cranz, on the inheritance of dexterity in seal-catching. Crawfurd, on the number of species of man. Crenilabrus massa and C. melops, nests, built by. Crest, origin of, in Polish fowls.
There had been a dreadful storm during the day, so that the natives had been prevented from going to seal-catching, they therefore assembled in her house after nightfall, to entreat her, as she was considered a powerful sorceress, to make good weather, bring the seals from the deep, and show the holes in the ice to which they came for air; also where the greatest number of rein-deer were to be found.
Esquimaux, their belief in the inheritance of dexterity in seal-catching; mode of life of. Estrelda amandava, pugnacity of the male. Eubagis, sexual differences of colouring in the species of. Euchirus longimanus, sound produced by. Eudromias morinellus. Eulampis jugularis, colours of the female. Euler, on the rate of increase in the United States.
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