United States or Central African Republic ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Three huts of stone and snow were planned, and while they were building, the hunters of the party scoured the neighboring ice-floes and pools for game foxes, ptarmigan, and seals. There were no mistaken ideas concerning their deadly peril.
The seals are still on our effects, and the guard remains in possession, which has put us to the expence of buying a variety of articles we could not well dispense with: for, on examining the baggage after our arrival, we found it very much diminshed; and this has happened to almost all the people who have been arrested.
Now hearken, and I will tell thee how thou mayest wring from him all his secrets. Every day at noon he comes forth from the sea, and lays him down to sleep in a rocky cave; and about him are couched his herd of seals. I will bring thee to the place in the early morning, and set thee in ambush to await his coming.
We saw several large seals upon the ice, but they were too watchful for us; and on two occasions we came upon the walrus sleeping, once within actual lance-thrust; but the animal charged in the teeth of his assailant and made good his retreat. On the 28th I instituted a quiet review of the state of things before us.
Pentargon, the bay and headland beyond the Boscastle golf-links, is sometimes interpreted as "Arthur's Head," but this is doubtful. The caves here, and those below Willapark, were once much haunted by seals; the coast being absolutely honeycombed by the constant fretting of the waves.
We passed an order forbidding any authority to remove seals without our consent, and, in spite of the prohibition, they broke into a storehouse under sequestration,.... forced the locks and pillaged, under our own eyes, the very house we occupy. And who are these devastators?
What had this bright happy little life to look forward to on the desolate plateau of the Sleeper Indians. "Wolves are great greedy creatures," he said. "They eat up everything they can get. They're real wicked." "So's Injuns then." Steve laughed at the childish logic, as the little man rattled on. "I's hunt wolves when I grows big. I hunts 'em like Uncle Cy, an' seals, too. I kills 'em.
Near to these hopeful youths sat a fence, or receiver, bargaining with a clouter, or pickpocket, for a suit, or, to speak in more intelligible language, a watch and seals, two cloaks, commonly called watch-cases, and a wedge-lobb, otherwise known as a silver snuff-box.
What exclusive rights does the United States have in the Bering Sea? What right of protection or property does the United States have in the seals frequenting the islands in the Sea? If the United States has no exclusive rights over the seals, what steps ought to be taken to protect them?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. Vs. 2-3. Proclamation is made by a "strong angel," the Almighty Monarch's herald to the universe, challenging all creatures to the task of opening the seals. His "loud voice" reverberates throughout illimitable space, that all concerned might hear.
Word Of The Day