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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... Increased Sickness on board the Griper . - Clothes first dried in the open Air .-- Remarkable Halos and Parhelia . - Snow Blindness.- Cutting the Ice round the Ships , and other Occurrences to the close of May • 99 CHAPTER VIII ...
... Increased Sickness on board the Griper . - Clothes first dried in the open Air .-- Remarkable Halos and Parhelia . - Snow Blindness.- Cutting the Ice round the Ships , and other Occurrences to the close of May • 99 CHAPTER VIII ...
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... Increased Ex- tent and Dimensions of the Ice.- Return to the Eastward , to endeavour to penetrate the Ice to the Southward . - Re - enter Barrow's Strait , and Survey its South Coast . - Pass through Sir James Lancaster's Sound on our ...
... Increased Ex- tent and Dimensions of the Ice.- Return to the Eastward , to endeavour to penetrate the Ice to the Southward . - Re - enter Barrow's Strait , and Survey its South Coast . - Pass through Sir James Lancaster's Sound on our ...
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... on the Ice . - Various Meteoro- logical Phenomena -Okotook and his Wife brought on board . -Anecdotes relating to them . - Ships released from the Ice by sawing - . 281 CHAPTER IX . Increased Extent of open Water in the CONTENTS ; ix.
... on the Ice . - Various Meteoro- logical Phenomena -Okotook and his Wife brought on board . -Anecdotes relating to them . - Ships released from the Ice by sawing - . 281 CHAPTER IX . Increased Extent of open Water in the CONTENTS ; ix.
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... Increased Extent of open Water in the Offing . - A Travelling Party despatched to the Northward . - Unsuccessful attempt to raise Vegetables on shore . - Decease of James Pringle.- A Party of Esquimaux build Huts near the Ships ...
... Increased Extent of open Water in the Offing . - A Travelling Party despatched to the Northward . - Unsuccessful attempt to raise Vegetables on shore . - Decease of James Pringle.- A Party of Esquimaux build Huts near the Ships ...
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... increased to a fresh gale , with an irregular sea and 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 ...
... increased to a fresh gale , with an irregular sea and 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 ...
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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