Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: And Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volumen1Harper & brothers, 1840 |
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... Heavy Easterly gales . - Proceed out of the Inlet . - Arrival in a Bay on the south side of Winter Island . - Ships secured in Winter - quarters Page 228 CHAPTER VI . Precautions for the Security of the Ships and their Stores- And for ...
... Heavy Easterly gales . - Proceed out of the Inlet . - Arrival in a Bay on the south side of Winter Island . - Ships secured in Winter - quarters Page 228 CHAPTER VI . Precautions for the Security of the Ships and their Stores- And for ...
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... heavy grounded masses lying near the shore . LANE of Water . - A narrow channel among the masses of ice , through which a boat or ship may pass . LEAD . A channel through the ice . A ship is said to " take the right lead " when she ...
... heavy grounded masses lying near the shore . LANE of Water . - A narrow channel among the masses of ice , through which a boat or ship may pass . LEAD . A channel through the ice . A ship is said to " take the right lead " when she ...
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... heavy rain , which brought us under our close - reefed topsails . At half past one , P.M. , we began to cross the space in which the " Sunken Land of Buss " is laid down in Steel's chart from England to Greenland ; and , in the course ...
... heavy rain , which brought us under our close - reefed topsails . At half past one , P.M. , we began to cross the space in which the " Sunken Land of Buss " is laid down in Steel's chart from England to Greenland ; and , in the course ...
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... heavy . The birds were more numerous than usual ; and , besides the fulmar peterels , boatswains , and kitti- wakes , we saw , for the first time , some rotges , dovekies , or black guillemots , and terns , the latter known best to ...
... heavy . The birds were more numerous than usual ; and , besides the fulmar peterels , boatswains , and kitti- wakes , we saw , for the first time , some rotges , dovekies , or black guillemots , and terns , the latter known best to ...
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... heavy detached masses , much washed by the sea , and formed what is technically called " a pack , " this name being given to ice when so closely connected as not to admit the passage of a ship between the masses . Within the margin of ...
... heavy detached masses , much washed by the sea , and formed what is technically called " a pack , " this name being given to ice when so closely connected as not to admit the passage of a ship between the masses . Within the margin of ...
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afforded amusement animals appeared Arctic Circle Aurora Borealis beach became began boat breeze canoes Cape Captain Lyon Captain Sabine circumstances clear water close coast cold considerable continued course direction distance drift eastward eight P.M. endeavour Esquimaux fathoms favourable feet five floe fore four fresh frostbites gale glaucous gulls Greenland Griper ground half past heavy hill hole hundred yards huts Iligliuk immediately inches inlet Kabloona land length Lieutenant Liddon lying Melville Island miles morning musk-ox navigation nearly night noon northward Northwest Passage o'clock observed occasion officers Okotook party piece Possession Bay present ptarmigan quantity quarter ravine remark Repulse Bay sail scarcely scorbutic seal seen seven ships shore side situation six P.M. sledge snow snowdrift soon Southampton Island southward stones Strait temperature tents thermometer thick tion usual walked weather westward whole wind Winter Harbour Winter Island