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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... 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 Return to ...
... 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 Return to ...
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... was allowed , a wolfskin blanket being supplied to each officer and man , besides a housing - cloth , similar to that with which wagons are usually covered , to make VOL . I. - B a sort of tent on board . Although the finding.
... was allowed , a wolfskin blanket being supplied to each officer and man , besides a housing - cloth , similar to that with which wagons are usually covered , to make VOL . I. - B a sort of tent on board . Although the finding.
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... tent on board . Although the finding a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific was the main object of the expedition , yet the ascertaining many points of natural history , geography , & c . , was considered a most important object ...
... tent on board . Although the finding a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific was the main object of the expedition , yet the ascertaining many points of natural history , geography , & c . , was considered a most important object ...
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... tents and baggage , and which appeared to answer very well . The view from this hill was not such as to offer much encouragement to our hopes of future ad- vancement to the westward . The sea still pre- sented the same unbroken and ...
... tents and baggage , and which appeared to answer very well . The view from this hill was not such as to offer much encouragement to our hopes of future ad- vancement to the westward . The sea still pre- sented the same unbroken and ...
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... tents , of the kind called in the army horsemen's tents , were made of blankets , with two boarding - pikes fixed across at each end , and a ridge - rope along the top , which , with 110 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY CHAPTER VIII Journey ...
... tents , of the kind called in the army horsemen's tents , were made of blankets , with two boarding - pikes fixed across at each end , and a ridge - rope along the top , which , with 110 VOYAGE FOR THE DISCOVERY CHAPTER VIII Journey ...
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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