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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... thickness . BESET . The situation of a ship when closely surrounded by ice . BIGHT . An indentation in a floe of ice , like a bay , by which name it is sometimes called . BLINK . A peculiar brightness in the atmosphere , often assuming ...
... thickness . BESET . The situation of a ship when closely surrounded by ice . BIGHT . An indentation in a floe of ice , like a bay , by which name it is sometimes called . BLINK . A peculiar brightness in the atmosphere , often assuming ...
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... thick honey , offering little impediment to a ship while in this state , but greatly favouring the formation of a " bay - floe . " STREAM - A long and narrow , but generally continuous , collec- tion of loose ice . TONGUE . A mass of ...
... thick honey , offering little impediment to a ship while in this state , but greatly favouring the formation of a " bay - floe . " STREAM - A long and narrow , but generally continuous , collec- tion of loose ice . TONGUE . A mass of ...
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... thick , rainy weather , which made our situation for some hours rather an unpleasant one , the ice being close under our lee . Fortunately , however , we weathered it by stretching back a few miles to the southward . In the afternoon ...
... thick , rainy weather , which made our situation for some hours rather an unpleasant one , the ice being close under our lee . Fortunately , however , we weathered it by stretching back a few miles to the southward . In the afternoon ...
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... thick to allow us to see more than a mile or two in that direction . We were , at noon , in latitude 72 ° 00 ′ 21 ′′ , longitude 59 ° 43 ′ 04 ′′ , the depth of water being one hundred and ninety fathoms , on a muddy bottom . The wind ...
... thick to allow us to see more than a mile or two in that direction . We were , at noon , in latitude 72 ° 00 ′ 21 ′′ , longitude 59 ° 43 ′ 04 ′′ , the depth of water being one hundred and ninety fathoms , on a muddy bottom . The wind ...
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... thick fog came on again at night , and prevailed till near noon on the 18th , when we came to a close but narrow stream of ice , lying exactly across our course , and at right angles to the main body of the ice . As this stream extended ...
... thick fog came on again at night , and prevailed till near noon on the 18th , when we came to a close but narrow stream of ice , lying exactly across our course , and at right angles to the main body of the ice . As this stream extended ...
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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