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... called furs . The seal , beaver , mink , and squirrel are some of the common animals whose furs are used for making clothing . Most fur - bearing animals live in cold . countries . Animals and Men Need Homes . Besides food and clothing ...
... called furs . The seal , beaver , mink , and squirrel are some of the common animals whose furs are used for making clothing . Most fur - bearing animals live in cold . countries . Animals and Men Need Homes . Besides food and clothing ...
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... called Eskimos . They are of medium height , strongly built , and have black hair and eyes ; their complexion is yellowish- brown , like that of the people of Northern Asia . They live by hunting , for they can not raise corn or wheat ...
... called Eskimos . They are of medium height , strongly built , and have black hair and eyes ; their complexion is yellowish- brown , like that of the people of Northern Asia . They live by hunting , for they can not raise corn or wheat ...
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... called a kayak , and a spear tipped with a sharp point made of bone . The kayak is made by covering a light frame of wood and bone with the skins of seals or other animals . The top is covered over at both ends , leaving an opening or ...
... called a kayak , and a spear tipped with a sharp point made of bone . The kayak is made by covering a light frame of wood and bone with the skins of seals or other animals . The top is covered over at both ends , leaving an opening or ...
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... called the Pygmy tribe , whose full - grown men are not more than four feet high , while the women are still shorter . Al- though the Pygmies are so small they are able to kill large and danger- ous animals . They even trap the elephant ...
... called the Pygmy tribe , whose full - grown men are not more than four feet high , while the women are still shorter . Al- though the Pygmies are so small they are able to kill large and danger- ous animals . They even trap the elephant ...
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... called deserts , and one may travel in them for hundreds of miles without seeing any green thing . The loose , dry sand is caught up by the wind , and piled into great banks . There are hills and moun- tains in some deserts , and in ...
... called deserts , and one may travel in them for hundreds of miles without seeing any green thing . The loose , dry sand is caught up by the wind , and piled into great banks . There are hills and moun- tains in some deserts , and in ...
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Page 71 - Each degree is divided into 60 equal parts called minutes, and each minute into 60 equal parts called seconds.
Page 260 - This is an enormous figure cut out of the solid rock, having the head of a woman and the body of a lion.
Page 76 - The space between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle is called the North Temperate Zone, and that between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle is the South Temperate Zone.
Page 90 - A narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water is called a strait.
Page 101 - They crossed the Rocky Mountains and descended the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, thus gaining a foothold in the extreme Northwest.
Page 274 - Compare the cotton crop of the United States with that of the rest of the world.
Page 212 - Germany vast amounts of it are found a few feet below the surface of the ground in the northern part of the country.
Page 36 - An island is a body of land completely surrounded by water" and "A mountain is a high elevation of land composed mainly of rock." We struggled through, "Ponds and lakes are bodies of water that occupy depressions in the land." Whatever depressions in the land might be, it was beyond us to fathom ; but woe engulfed us if we could not tell that lakes occupied them. We sometimes had ten or more of these definitions in one day, and some of us were "kept in...
Page 61 - ... the right hand toward the east, and the left hand toward the west. The Making and Reading of Maps.